Linux-Networking Digest #559, Volume #11 Wed, 16 Jun 99 18:13:47 EDT
Contents:
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News ("Chad Mulligan")
Re: Samba can't share DOS mount? (Malware)
x25 -> ip (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Magn=FAs?= Egilsson)
Re: Network (Atomic) Time (Walt Shekrota)
Linux to replace NT Server (Steve Bui)
Question on DEC VT420 terminal ("TeX")
problems with 2.3.6 kernel ("D. Nathan Hood")
IP-Masqurade!! ("Tiger")
LAST_ACK wont go away (Bob McLaren)
Re: Modem Dialup Problem (Michael Kelly)
INFORMIX ODBC CLIENT FOR LINUX ? (dja7)
FTP install of Red Hat 6.0 using DFE-530TX (Aaron Wright)
Wake up on lan (Rainer Kiehne)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News ("Otto")
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News (Mark S. Bilk)
network is unreachable (Ron Bombard)
Re: Linux server, Win95 clients, 1 modem, PPP...a la LanBridge? ("Tiger")
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest News
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:45:57 -0700
Craig Kelley wrote in message ...
>"Stuart Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> > >But Linux != Solaris, the benchmark is between Linux and NT.
>> >
>> > So f*cking what? I'm often cited as one of the most
>> > rabid Linux Zealots here and if I had the budget for
>> > a Quad Xeon I'd go get Sun hardware.
>>
>> My point being
>> a) No one in either Linux or NT camp will dispute that Solaris scales
better
>> than either OS (if they do, they're idiots)
>> b) Whenever scalability is mentioned, most Linux users start talking
about
>> Solaris, which as I pointed out != linux
>
>With 1 caveot: Linux applications *are* Solaris applications.
>
Are they now.. Hmm does IE for Solaris run on RH6.0? How about Oracle 8.0?
Sun Net Manager? WABI?
>Scalability concerns stem from the fear of not being able to give your
>applications enough horsepower. If you develop open Linux solutions,
>you can always scale on up to any "big iron" UNIX you wish to.
Actually, I would think that Scalability stems from having the data
available available to your customers, when they need it. Big Iron's days
are numbered. I worked for an HMO that even clustered their IBM 390's to
ensure availability. If you doubt the value of redundancy, check out a VAX
cluster sometime, two to four machines acting as a single entity, you could
run over one with a truck and the customers wouldn't notice. That there is
the key, the pieces can die, but the system must be available, it's a notion
called fault tolerance.
>
>Sun, IBM and HP all understand this (and that is why they support
>Linux).
>
Can't speak for Sun, they've always been the Apple of the UNIX world to me.
IBM also sells, and supports NT, The Domino Server will run on Solaris, HP,
NT, OS/2 but Not Linux. (Lotus is an IBM subsidiary) HP and MS have a fairly
close relationship as well. HP PC's and servers come with NT preloaded as
well, and some friends who work at the nearby HP campus speak fairly openly
of an NT port to their systems in the works. Compaq supports Linux too, but
MS's website is almost completely Compaq machines. You left out SGI, they
used to be called MIPS if you recall, an early NT supporter, and current
one. Then there's Intel, remember them, they're part of the glue that keeps
this mess functioning they've got relationships with all these companies,
and more. One must remember that Intel makes more than just processors.
>If you develop NT applications, your scalability lies in how many
>machines you can cluster. (How many IIS servers does microsoft.com
>have again?)
>
26 as I recall, in eight redundant clusters, supported by redundant fast
ethernet, supplied data by redundant SQL servers (something eBay should
consider) serving millions, yes millions of customers over redundant OC3
circuits, further backed up by multiple DS3's all from different vendors.
And the best part, as far as joe public is concerned, it's a single entity.
>--
>The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
>Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: Malware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba can't share DOS mount?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:03:47 +0200
Hallo John,
you wrote:
> I have a Samba/Linux server with the OEM-installed Win98 DOS drive mounted
> as /dos. As root, I can read and write files to the /dos directory. However,
> as root, I can _not_ change the permissions on /dos, and even though /dos is
You have to give some mount options to allow other users to read and/or
write on this filesystem. See "man mount" for more information.
> configured as a public read-write directory in Samba, the clients cannot
> write to it! My fstab file has the line:
Samba does not break the UNIX permission system. So you need the
approciate rights from both systems.
Malware
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 16:03:41 +0000
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Magn=FAs?= Egilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: x25 -> ip
Hi there
I have to connect to a x25 device over ip network. Has anyone tried to
use spad and x25d on linux or are there other apps that do better?
Sincerely
Magnus Egilsson
Systems Administrator
Iceland Telecom
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Walt Shekrota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network (Atomic) Time
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:44:44 GMT
Also try 'man rtime'
Some dists have it, some don't.
My RH6 has it
Didn't see it in SUSE or Slackware but then maybe I just didn't select it in the
install.
-Walt
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From: Steve Bui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Subject: Linux to replace NT Server
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:19:05 -0700
Hi everyone,
I am trying to find out how to setup a linux machine to perform the
duties of an NT server (i.e. authenticate users, resolve domain names,
etc) If anyone can help or point me in the right direction, it would be
greatly appreciated. THanks
--
Steve
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From: "TeX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.slakware,list.linux-activists.serial
Subject: Question on DEC VT420 terminal
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:19:22 +0200
how do i configure my slackware for this terminal?
grtz,
Reyndert
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From: "D. Nathan Hood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: unl.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: problems with 2.3.6 kernel
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:34:39 -0500
I just recently compiled the 2.3.6 kernel on a machine here at work.
Everything seems to be ok, and the bootup goes fine, except that I
periodically get the message that "129.93.40.13 Sent an Invalid ICMP
error to a broadcast" i don't know what this error message means and i
only get it with the 2.3.6 kernel (i also got it with the 2.2.5 kernel
though) the 2.0.36 kernel that is also on the machine does not suffer
from this problem. are there any obvious reasons that i might be
getting this error? i tracked the offending computer down and it is a
windows95 machine in the building.
any help would be greatly appreciated
please respond by e-mail as i check it more often
-nathan
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From: "Tiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IP-Masqurade!!
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 16:17:55 -0400
I'm trying to set Linux as a proxy box. I have read some information on the
internet and still could not get it to work. can some one please help me to
start this service on my machine.
a guide to a site or some instructions would be appreciated...
thanks
Joseph
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From: Bob McLaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LAST_ACK wont go away
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:23:14 GMT
When I run "netstat -t" to look at my TCP connections I ALWAYS have the
following connections listed among the others.
tcp 65 25365 myserver.com:24744 mail.hotmail.com:smtp
LAST_ACK
tcp 65 25365 myserver.com:24758 mail.hotmail.com:smtp
LAST_ACK
tcp 65 25365 myserver.com:24771 law2-mail.hotmail.:smtp
LAST_ACK
tcp 65 25365 myserver.com:25128 mail2.hotmail.com:smtp
LAST_ACK
tcp 65 25365 myserver.com:25346 mail.hotmail.com:smtp
LAST_ACK
tcp 65 25365 myserver.com:26174 law2-mail.hotmail.:smtp
LAST_ACK
tcp 65 25365 myserver.com:26652 law2-mail.hotmail.:smtp
LAST_ACK
tcp 65 25365 myserver.com:27165 law2-mail.hotmail.:smtp
LAST_ACK
tcp 65 25689 myserver.com:27659 law2-mail.hotmail.:smtp
LAST_ACK
tcp 65 25365 myserver.com:27779 mail.hotmail.com:smtp
LAST_ACK
tcp 65 25365 myserver.com:28167 mail.hotmail.com:smtp
LAST_ACK
tcp 65 25365 myserver.com:28743 mail.hotmail.com:smtp
LAST_ACK
tcp 65 25365 myserver.com:29096 mail2.hotmail.com:smtp
LAST_ACK
tcp 65 25365 myserver.com:30279 mail2.hotmail.com:smtp
LAST_ACK
tcp 65 25365 myserver.com:31239 mail.hotmail.com:smtp
LAST_ACK
tcp 65 22881 myserver.com:13699 law2-mail.hotmail.:smtp
LAST_ACK
>From the looks of things they are a collection of dropped connections
that aren't getting the "okay to close" acknowledgment back and are
consequently staying open. Does anybody know how I can force these
connections to close without rebooting the server?
As always your help is very appreciated
--Bob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kelly)
Subject: Re: Modem Dialup Problem
Date: 16 Jun 1999 20:38:33 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <7k8ksp$so2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"June Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have connected an ext sporster modem to my redhat and it works but not
> what I expected... because the modem is not dialing immediately after I
> execute the ppp-on script ! I have to wait like 3-5 mins then it dials ! Why
> !?
>
> Any ideas what's wrong with the config ? I appreciate your help.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
Could be your serial port is trying to share an IRQ with another
device. Run the setserial command on the ports to see what the
IRQs are.
man setserial
for details on the command
Good luck.
--
Mike
"Genius gives birth, talent delivers."
- Jack Kerouac
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:36:54 -0700
From: dja7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: INFORMIX ODBC CLIENT FOR LINUX ?
Has anyone found an INFORMIX ODBC client for linux ?
I am using slackware 3.4
I want to do ODBC calls from my linux machine to an INFORMIX database
over a WAN. this way I can format the data into reports using perl and
put it on my web server in html format for endusers to view and print.
any help will ensure my eternal gratitude
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks !
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From: Aaron Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FTP install of Red Hat 6.0 using DFE-530TX
Date: 16 Jun 1999 20:30:49 GMT
I have a machine which has no CD-ROM drive, but it does have a fast
connection to the internet using a D-Link DFE-530TX NIC. I'd like to
install Red Hat 6.0 on this machine using FTP.
When I start the installation and get to the point where I select my NIC
driver, I choose the VIA Rhine driver, and after a couple of seconds, the
installer comes back with "I can't find the device anywhere on your
system!" If I hit Alt-F3, I see the following:
* picked driver VIA Rhine
* running: /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/via-rhine.o
* insmod failed!
If I hit Alt-F5, I see:
Cannot find archive member via-rhine.o: file does not exist in archive
I don't get this "file does not exist" error if I pick any other driver to
try. To me it looks like the via rhine driver is missing from the
bootnet.img for Red Hat 6.0. Is that possible? Has anyone else come across
this? If this is the case, what can I possibly do about it since I can't
install Linux until I have the driver working?
Thanks in advance,
Aaron
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From: Rainer Kiehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wake up on lan
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:57:17 +0200
Hi
Can anybody tell me how wake up on lan works?
Does a workstation wake up if there is a simple broadcast?
Where can I find sources of information?
TIA Rainer
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Rainer Kiehne
Leibnizstrasse 22/Zi.96
38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld
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From: "Otto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:35:23 GMT
Mark S. Bilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Microsoft has a history of cheating on benchmarks and
> rigging software to prevent competitive products from
> functioning. Could they do that in the Mindcraft retest
> that's now taking place?
Why would they need to cheat? As it is NT can beat the crap out of Linux on
the high end hardware, so what?Live with it.
It boils down to matter of trust, which no matter what's being done the
Linux community will never be satisfied. The test is not even over yet, no
results are available, you already crying foul play. Just make sure you'll
have plenty of tissues at hand when the results come out :).
Dislike the way the test is performed? Do your own using the same hardware.
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark S. Bilk)
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:25:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
[Mark Bilk wrote:]
>>> The tests would have to be repeated on hardware that is
>>> known to have unmodified microcode, and with software and
>>> configuration data that are also known not to have been
>>> meddled with.
>Well, the changes may be specifically designed to allow the system to
>perform much better on that particular benchmark, but are useless at
>best or very bad at worst for normal, day-to-day usage.
>
>Compiler writers have a long and storied history of this kind of thing:
>they like to write specific optimizations for well-known benchmarks so
>their compilers look better in comparisons--but most benchmarks are
>fairly poor at emulating real-life usage so these kinds of targeted
>optimizations almost never result in any real code running faster.
Exactly. I think there was a compiler in the early PC era
that emitted a hand-optimized routine for the "Sieve of
Eratosthenes" prime number algorithm, since that was used
as a benchmark by Byte magazine and others.
>Anyway, changing hardware microcode has nothing to do with the
>performance of the OS: that gives a skewed result for the
>benchmark... it's like running benchmarks on different hardware. The
>comparison you want to make is between the operating systems themselves,
>so everything else has to be as invariant as possible.
What I had in mind here is that the microcode in, e.g., the
NICs, could be hacked to detect whether IIS or Samba was
running. Since web pages are sent out with a header that
includes the name of the server software, the network card
would simply have to read that header. Then, if it detected
Samba, it would impede packet transmission (by telling the
CPU it was "busy"), and possibly drop some packets going in
either direction. It could include a timer that would
disable it after, say, 24 hours, so it wouldn't be found
later if there were an investigation.
If that seems farfetched, this article describes the stealthed,
encrypted code that Microsoft put into beta versions of Windows
3.1 to detect DR-DOS, put up an error message, and fail by
default:
<a href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/1993/9309/9309d/9309d.htm">MS Code to Kill DR-DOS
-- SEP93: Examining the Windows AARD Detection Code</a>
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From: Ron Bombard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: network is unreachable
Date: 16 Jun 1999 21:01:05 GMT
Greetings!
I'm running Redhat 5.2 linux, with BIND 8.1.2. The nameserver is
configured as a cache-only server. I connect to my ISP with PPP.
Following a DNS-Howto, I was trying to use my ISP's nameserver for
lookups on the internet, and use my hostfile for local lookups. should
be easy right? huh!
When I try to send mail to another host on my network, sendmail gives
the error: Deferred: network is unreachable
When I do a nslookup on any host on our network (including local host),
I get the error:
*** Can't find server name for address 198.69.28.2: No response from
server
*** Can't find server name for address 198.69.28.3: No response from
server
*** Default servers are not available
My etc/resolv.conf file is as follows:
search netheaven.com #ISP's hostname
nameserver 198.69.28.2 #ISP's nameserver ip
nameserver 198.69.28.3 #ISP's backup nameserver ip
My etc/host.conf file is as follows:
order hosts, bind
multi on
My etc/service.switch file is as follows:
hosts files
aliases files
My /etc/host file has all my local hosts in it.
Now, everything works fine as far as when I'm connected to my ISP. I can
browse the net, send out external email, do nslookups of anyone. except
local hosts.
I can ping all my local hosts, though.
It was working at one time, but I don't know what I did to screw it up.
Any ideas????
Ron
--
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From: "Tiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux server, Win95 clients, 1 modem, PPP...a la LanBridge?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 16:14:13 -0400
I'm trying to do the same thing and I was directed on the net were I printed
a 42 pages of information. I guess after going through it all I'm back here
to ask the question again how to set that Masquerade. is it included with
Caldera what command should I start it with and what arguments should be
apply for. Dos any one have or can write simple instructions for me to start
this service.
I would appreciate it..
Joseph
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7jvrc9$73$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I'm going to be converting a peer-to-peer network of Win95 machines to one
with
> a server running linux. Ideally, this conversion to a linux server will be
> mostly transparent to the users of the Win95 clients.
>
> The main function of the network at this point is to allow all the Win95
> workstations Internet connectivity via a modem installed in one of the
machines
> (this machine is the one marked for Linux installation); they use a
product
> called LanBridge marketed by LinkSys which works as follows. When any
> workstation tries to access something outside of the LAN, it makes the
> modem-computer dial up (if its PPP connection isn't already active) and
uses the
> resulting PPP connection for network access. The question is whether and
how
> this could be accomplished if the computer with the modem was running
linux, and
> the computers connecting to it were either Win95 or Linux (in this case,
there's
> 6 Win95 workstations and 1 Linux workstation). In other words, what I need
is a
> way to allow several Win95 workstations to use a single PPP connection
running
> on a Linux machine, possibly simultaneously. Anyone done this or know the
> methods involved? I appreciate any feedback.
>
> -- Jeeves
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To:
omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:37:18 -0700
On 16 Jun 1999 18:10:47 GMT, I R A Aggie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 16 Jun 1999 12:51:36 -0400, Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, in
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>[about IE under Solaris]
>
>+ - It doesn't have any features except the browser (no mail, no news
>+ client, no editor, etc.)
>
>You say that like it is a bad thing.
For as big as it is, it is a bad thing.
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