Linux-Networking Digest #596, Volume #11 Sun, 20 Jun 99 06:13:41 EDT
Contents:
Re: Newbie to Linux, need help... ("k")
Loopback doesn't have an IP Address... ("David Wolverton")
Re: DNS and routing problem ("Andrey Smirnov")
Unmount after smbmount causes shutdown failure - SuSE 6.1 (John and Catherine Allen)
Re: I need some help with IP MASQ ("TURBO1010")
Re: Setting up a name server ("Andrey Smirnov")
Re: ifconfig tells me "dummy" (James Youngman)
terminal emulation through TCP/IP ("Andy Marks")
Re: Samba/win98 (Monte Phillips)
Need 1000+ tcp connections simultaneously (Ron Peterson)
Re: Maximum number of NICs (James Youngman)
Linux Based Server... ("Dan M. Johnson (LinuxBox1)(bagzman)")
Re: Proxy ("Andrey Smirnov")
Re: Long delays during service requests + where is a POP server?? ("Andrey Smirnov")
Re: YOUNG BEAUTIFUL MODEL AVAILABLE (Rage-DCA)
Re: Apache server to NT4.0 network ("David Jordan")
Please! just plain email???? ("Mark Orr")
Re: initab trick ! (Greg de Freitas)
how to configure on board Ethernet chip? (Bob Berman)
???eth0: transmit timed out, Tx_status 00 Status 2000 Tx FIFO room 1536??? ("Thay
Sothun")
Re: PCI BIOS has not enabled this device! (M. Buchenrieder)
[Fwd: Linux - W95 interaction] (theoldman)
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From: "k" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie to Linux, need help...
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 06:50:01 GMT
Kyle Rodeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote ...
> Hi all,
>
> I have been working with NT for the past 2 and a half years and recently
got
> my MCSE +I. Just got offered a job as a NT / Linux admin :) Haven't
touched
> Linux but have always wanted to work with it due to it's security and non
> crashing ability, something that MS's products do too much of :)
>
> Anyway, the company wants me to learn Red Hat v6.0. What study materials
> would you suggest for a Linux newbie to read to get himself up to par
fast?
>
> I appriciate your knowledge and value your input.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Kyle
try http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/linux.html. it's the linux
documentation project (LDP) homepage. it's got links to all
sorts of man pages (manuals for linux programs, available for
most programs that are installed in linux with the "man <program
name>" command. links to HOWTOs, useful information on how
to do all sorts of things in linux (ethernet, programming, network
administration etc.) and get things working. links to FAQs on
linux related subjects. and other linux links (like how to get
started). also try http://www.redhat.com for redhat specific info.
if you're really new to *nix operating systems, a book on UNIX or
linux might be useful, too. i know it helped me.
good luck.
k
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From: "David Wolverton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Loopback doesn't have an IP Address...
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:31:26 -0500
Fairly new to Linux Red Hat 5.2 - My system's Loopback device (which should
be 127.0.0.1) doesn't display an address when reviewing through the
X-Windows based control panel. It will also not allow me to add the address
since "lo" is a special device. I cannot ping lo or 127.0.0.1 with any
success. My eth0 and all devices attached work correctly, but I need the
loopback address as well. Suggestions on where to read or what what to do?
Thanks for any light!
David Wolverton
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From: "Andrey Smirnov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DNS and routing problem
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 10:07:59 -0700
How does your /etc/named.conf looks like?
Morten Ranheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7k8602$7ia$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Hi
I've set up an imaginary nameserver for our intranet, Just as the DNS Howto
describes. Everything works properly, but when I do a nslookup it returns:
Default Server: dns.ramoe.no
Address: 0.0.0.0
The adress should be 193.216.137.67. I have gone thru /ets/hosts and
resolv.conf which seems to be ok. When I do route -v it returns (after a
couple of seconds):
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags
Metric Ref Use Iface
193.216.137.64 * 255.255.255.224 U 0
0 50 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0
U 0 0 5 lo
default 193.216.137.65 0.0.0.0 UG
0 0 118 eth0
As shown above the localhost is NOT 127.0.0.1 and it does not show my static
ip either for eth0.
Can anyone help with this "stupid" problem?
Thanks in advance.
---
Morten Ranheim
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 10:12:37 +0200
From: John and Catherine Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unmount after smbmount causes shutdown failure - SuSE 6.1
I recently upgraded my SuSE 6.0 to 6.1 (kernel 2.2.7).
After using smbmount (the new one that comes with Samba 2.x.x) to mount
a couple of remote shared drives on a Windows PC, the Linux machine
hangs on shutdown at the point where it is trying to unmount the remote
drives. I am logged on as root.
I can unmount manually with no problem, so why does the shutdown unmount
go wrong?
I originally had this problem with a home-made upgrade to the 2.2.0
kernel, so I assumed it was just a problem with my home-made
configuration, but I'm now using the full SuSE 6.1 package and I have
exactly the same symptoms.
I am aware of the differences between the "old" smbmount and the new
one, but I can't see how this affects the unmounting operation, which
uses umount.
I've received advice on this in other places, including upgrading to the
2.2.10 kernel, but this made no difference. I understand it could be a
problem in the SuSE shutdown scripts, but I'm reluctant to touch these
without some good advice. Any suggestions?
If this is a known bug in smbmount, is there someone working on this? If
so, I'd be happy to help test any proposed fixes.
John Allen
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John and Catherine Allen
Luxembourg
home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www2.vo.lu/homepages/allen/
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From: "TURBO1010" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I need some help with IP MASQ
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:32:13 -0700
Did you turn on IP Forwarding?
Jeff Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does the stock RedHat 6.0 kernel have everything needed for IP
masquerading
> already turned on? I've read the ip-masq howto a bunch of times, and
looked at
> my kernel configuration and it looks to me like everything mentioned in
the
> how-to is already in the kernel.
>
> Maybe that's not my problem. Let me tell you what's going on.
> Linux box is 192.168.0.1
> Win95 is 192.168.0.2
> I can ping both ways.
>
> On the Linux box I did install the ipchains RPM file.
> After establishing a PPP connection to my ISP I tried this command from an
> xterm:
> ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0.
>
> I can ping the eth0 address from the win95 box. Pinging the internal IP
> assigned by the ISP, or the ISP's external IP does not work.
>
> What can I do to fix this?
>
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From: "Andrey Smirnov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up a name server
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:02:23 -0700
Drop the www in front of your machine name and try again. www is just a
name of your machine or an alias, when you get your domain registred, then
you can create an alias www and point it to your machine.domain.com. But you
will need to create DNS server or ask your ISP to provide DNS service for
you.
Good luck
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7k45rv$7ih$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, here's my situation. I will be running a web site off my computer
> which is hooked up to the net via a cable modem in a few weeks, after I
> buy my domain.
>
> What I'm looking to do is very simple, I want to set up a name server so
> that *.mydomain.com will point to my computer. I've read the man pages
> and even a few RFCs to get more of an idea of what I need to do, but I
> can't do anything so far.
>
> Now this may be becuase I was trying to test it out using my computer's
> host name, lyn57-25.optonline.net, but I get nothing when I try
> www.lyn57-25.optonline.net for example. Will I have to buy the domain
> to test it out? I would really appreciate any clear directions on what
> I need to do to set this thing up. Thanks!
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ifconfig tells me "dummy"
Date: 20 Jun 1999 08:29:49 +0100
Charly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can this interface keep my machine from being pinged ?
Only if it has the wrong IP address, or your default route points at
it.
--
ACTUALLY reachable as @free-lunch.demon.(whitehouse)co.uk:james+actually
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From: "Andy Marks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: terminal emulation through TCP/IP
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:17:27 +0100
Is there a way of running terminal emulation software on a win9x box to
connect to a Linux box over TCP/IP.
I need to run a dos program with a large database on the linux box serving
many users over a WAN
PS the package is Sage Line100 with a 150MB database. Sage haven't
considered WAN's with there software.
any help much apreciated.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Monte Phillips)
Subject: Re: Samba/win98
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 17:01:12 GMT
Well given your track record with ppp, its slightly iffy...
BUT This site has a step by step howto for complete setup of samba.
steps for both linux and the win machine. (and they really work <G>)
http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html
g'Luk
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 11:02:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(LinuxFool) wrote:
>I've given up on my ppp problems for now...
>I have my Linux box hooked into my network (win98), now what do I have
>to do to get these machines to see one another ???
>LinuxFool
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From: Ron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need 1000+ tcp connections simultaneously
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:40:07 -0400
In doing some experimental work on mobile agent systems the research
group I work for is finding the need to have a thousand or more
tcp connections open simultaneously per machine as the agents jump from
PC to PC in our 25 PC cluster. We seem to be running into a Linux
system limit where applications are having trouble finding ports
and refusing to connect. Can anyone provide some clues as to how
we might get around this?
Ron Peterson
Senior Programmer
D'Agents Project
Dartmouth College
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Maximum number of NICs
Date: 20 Jun 1999 08:32:22 +0100
Catherine Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1) Can the network drivers actually support eight NICs? (specifically,
> can the 3com drivers support eight NICs)?
I've heard of people using at least five. This tends to be fone for
Beowulfs. Take a look at the Beowulf HOWTO.
--
ACTUALLY reachable as @free-lunch.demon.(whitehouse)co.uk:james+actually
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From: "Dan M. Johnson (LinuxBox1)(bagzman)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: "alt.linux;","alt.os.linux;","alt.os.linux.redhat;"
Subject: Linux Based Server...
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 03:55:26 -0700
Hello everyone,
I don't really have any questions or anything. Just promoting my
new Apache/RedHat Linux 5.2 web server. If you would like, please take
a look at http://spyol.dynip.com/ Thank you.
Sincerely,
Dan Johnson
--
Dan'z Tip for you:
===========================================================
*Always do what you believe in.
*Always eat what you feel.
*Just don't ever beleive in eating that skunk in the road.
===========================================================
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From: "Andrey Smirnov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Proxy
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 18:58:24 -0700
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html
good luck!
Tiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:u$oySrGu#GA.219@cpmsnbbsa02...
> I understand that I have to use some thing called Masqurade (to proxy) is
> that available with Caldera 2.2??
>
> What command that I should look for and what the executable that I can
use..
> is it hard/easy to use?
>
> Joe
>
>
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From: "Andrey Smirnov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Long delays during service requests + where is a POP server??
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:35:12 -0700
Try adding your Win machine's ip address to the /etc/hosts file on Linux
box.
As far as pop3 goes, I was not able to make pop3 that comes with RedHat
work, so I've used Qualcomm's qpopper and it work fine:
http://www.eudora.com/freeware/qpop.html
Good luck!
Hippy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hiya everyone,
>
> I have a win98 machine and a linux box (RedHat v6.0). They can talk to
> each other with no problem (pings always work with no delay). But, there's
a
> huge delay when trying to initiate connections to services.
>
> I've tried telnets, ftps and https. All of them can produce a delay
for
> up to a minute at a time. When you're trying to browse the linuxconf web
> version, it's a real pain (putting it mildly:) because it delays for every
> page load. I'm pretty sure that the problem's on the linux box - I can see
> the net traffic which shows the win98 machine performing retries. Once
> connected (i.e. telnet) there's no problem from then on. FTP Explorer
claims
> to connect straight away, but then waits for ages to initiate the d/load.
>
> I'm also trying to find a POP server. Despite what everyone says (I've
> seen other discussions about this) about a pop server being on the redhat
> distribution, I haven't found it yet - or anything on the red hat site. I
> eventually found qpopper v5.2 - but the RPM seems to be incomplete (or it
> doesn't match what its documents say). Can anyone give me a *definite*
> location/url where I can find it??
>
> Any help appreciated...
>
> Hippy.
>
>
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From: Rage-DCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: YOUNG BEAUTIFUL MODEL AVAILABLE
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 07:59:22 GMT
"Keven R. Pittsinger" wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Mike Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > What the hell does a parisian model want with a bunch of Linux geeks? Hmm...
> > Maybe she wants us for our charm, humo - waitaminute, we're geeks! We don't
> > have any of those qualities!
> > She just wants free tech support! Damn the lying wench!
>
> I hear she's a wizard at sendmail configuration...
>
> Keven
> --
> tc++ tm+ tn t4- to ru++ ge+ 3i c+ jt au st- ls pi+ ta+ he+ so- vi zh sy
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Science-Fiction Adventure
> In Reavers' Deep
yeah, i heard she could c0de to dude....face it she just wants some wild sex0r
with us linux/unix nerds.
i also heard freebsd was a good foreplay subject...
--
Jason Osborne (Rage-DCA)
- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- http://rage.dynip.com
- LinuxInside - I run it, do you?
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From: "David Jordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache server to NT4.0 network
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 22:02:55 +0100
Install samba to get the Linux box to join your domain or workgroup. There
is reasonable docs in the howto sections about this.
If you want you apache server to authenticate back to your nt domain, then
you should seek out pam_smb by David Airlie (think there is a link from the
samba site www.samba.org). We have apache running as our proxy for about 50
people at work :-)
DJ
Petri Makinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I would like to set up apache web server using RedHat 6.0. We have NT
> 4.0 network and clients are using mostly Win 95, also win 3.11.
> How should I configure linux network settings
> (hosts,hosts.conf,resolv.conf...) so that NT 4.0 client machines
> do recognize linux server ?
>
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From: "Mark Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please! just plain email????
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 02:08:58 -0500
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spent months. Help me find a free email service that works well with =
Linux. I just want to read messages in the terminal... not even turn on =
the browser. Would be nice to also download attachments... but sheesh... =
anything would help. Tanks
MSO=20
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From: Greg de Freitas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: initab trick !
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:44:34 GMT
Please do it properly:
# telinit q
;-)
INIT(8) Linux System Administrator's Manual INIT(8)
NAME
init, telinit - process control initialization
SYNOPSIS
/sbin/init [ 0123456Ss ]
/sbin/telinit [ -t sec ] [ 0123456sSQqabcUu ]
DESCRIPTION
Init
Init is the parent of all processes. Its primary role is
to create processes from a script stored in the file
/etc/inittab (see inittab(5)). This file usually has
entries which cause init to spawn............
particularly this bit:
...
CHANGING RUNLEVELS
After it has spawned all of the processes specified, init
waits for one of its descendant processes to die, a power�
fail signal, or until it is signaled by telinit to change
the system's runlevel. When one of the above three condi�
tions occurs, it re-examines the /etc/inittab file. New
entries can be added to this file at any time. However,
init still waits for one of the above three conditions to
occur. To provide for an instantaneous response, the
telinit Q or q command can wake up init to re-examine the
/etc/inittab file.
...
:-)
--
Ciao 4 now, Greg.
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From: Bob Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: how to configure on board Ethernet chip?
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:42:59 -0500
I believe that I need to enable support for my on board Ethernet chipset in the
kernel somewhere. My motherboard - ASUS P2B-LS has what it says is an Intel
82558 Ethernet 10/100 chipset. I can not find any information about how to
enable this in the kernel (2.2.?). I selected "EISA,PCI,VLB and on board
controllers", but none of the controllers listed below that option resemble the
82558. How do I get this Ethernet working?
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From: "Thay Sothun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ???eth0: transmit timed out, Tx_status 00 Status 2000 Tx FIFO room 1536???
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 16:09:14 +0700
Hello all,
Could any one help me out on networking?
Well, somehow the system keep printing at the shell prompt the string "eth0:
transmit timed out, Tx_status 00 Status 2000 Tx FIFO room 1536" for every
each 60 minutes.
Any idea would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Sothun
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: PCI BIOS has not enabled this device!
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 06:46:21 GMT
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035
> The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device! Updating PCI command 0000->0005.
> tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0xf400, 00 a0 cc 3a 83 b7, IRQ 255.
^^^^^^^^^^
[...]
Indeed. That means that the PCI BIOS did not give an IRQ to that
card. Either the card itself is broken, the driver has a bug, or the card
expects the IRQ to be set by the OS (which would be rather strange, since
the BIOS usually gives the IRQs to the PCI devices). If you do have
a diagnostic program (usually a DOS program) on an accompagnying floppy,
try running it in DOS mode. Otherwise you might perhaps want to ask
the author of the tulip.c driver, the honorable Donald Becker , at the
aforementioned email address.
Michael
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Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: theoldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Fwd: Linux - W95 interaction]
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:14:35 +0100
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From: theoldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux - W95 interaction
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I have a Linux box connected to the internet via a modem and a W95 box
connected to the Linux box via TCP/IP.
2 questions:
1. Once the Linux box is connected to my ISP , I can go to the W95 box,
Telnet into the Linux box, run LYNX and get text only access to the
Internet. Is it possible to use Netscape or Explorer on the W95 box so
that graphical browsing is available?(I have spent many nights playing
with SAMBA and trying to understand IP_Masquerade but I can not get
beyond the point I described above).
2. My Linux box shows up in Network Neighbourhood on the W95 box and I
can browse it from there with no problem. How do I access files on the
W95 box from the Linux box?I presume that this would be done by mounting
the remote system's drives in some way but I am lost with this one.
Thanks in advance.
Rob
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