Linux-Networking Digest #633, Volume #11 Wed, 23 Jun 99 08:13:44 EDT
Contents:
NFS write from Linux client stalls on RH,Debian, not on Slackware (Peter Mutsaers)
Re: IP masq/ADSL modem? (Luke Scharf)
samba routing (Caspar von Seckendorff)
Detected ethernet card unresponsive (B Shields)
Re: Network numbering question... ("Andrey Smirnov")
Re: Identd -- necessary? ("Tony C")
R: ppp always connects but sometimes drops ("Giorgio Descalzo")
Re: Samba Questions.... ("--==[bolMyn]==--")
Re: PPP default route problems?? Me too! :) (root)
Re: linux setup QoS/Fair Queuing disabled? (Mike Jagdis)
Re: Samba and Win98 (Geert Altena)
Re: 2 questions... ("Andrey Smirnov")
Re: usr sportster 28.8 modem init string for office use HELP (Andreas Kyek)
How to have redundant nameservers? (Steen Suder)
Re: figured SAMBA out. ignore my previouse message. Got a question about PROXY ..
any help? ("Tiger")
Re: Problems with ident over my ip-masq'ed i-net linux router... ("Curt")
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From: Peter Mutsaers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NFS write from Linux client stalls on RH,Debian, not on Slackware
Date: 23 Jun 1999 11:08:01 +0200
Hello,
When I mount an IRIX or Solaris NFS server on my Linux box and try to
write something larger than 64kb, the writing process stalls and the
write never finishes. (reading from a NFS server is OK)
This happens with kernels 2.2.5, 2.2.7 and 2.2.10 from RH6 of
Debian-current on a Compaq desktop with a ThunderLAN 10/100 network
card. FTP-ing large files causes no problems however.
Using Slackware 4.0 (on my laptop) with kernel 2.2.7 does not have
such problems however.
Is this a known problem? Anyone knows what is going on?
--
Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht), | Trust me, I know
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | the Netherlands | what I'm doing.
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From: Luke Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: IP masq/ADSL modem?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:50:14 -0400
How smart is the cable modem? Will it broadcast all of your local
traffic on the cable network?
If the cable modem is smart, or if you use a conventional modem to
transmit, you could just run two IP addresses on your one ethernet
card. There's a howto somewhere on how to set up a multi homed system.
Your two IP addesses would be whatever your ISP assigns, and an address
in the range one of the following ranges:
192.168.*.*, subnet mask 255.255.0.0
10.*.*.*, subnet mask 255.0.0.0
The other machines on your local networks should have addresses in the
same range. you can pretty much assign them arbitrarily, just so long
as you don't use addresses at the beginning and end of the range.
Read the HOWTOs and good luck.
-Luke
TURBO1010 wrote:
>
> I think you would have to have 2 nic cards on the linux box, one for the
> outside, with the real IP, and one for the internal lan, with the fake IP.
> That's the way that I have mine setup at home, and it works great.
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From: Caspar von Seckendorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.smb
Subject: samba routing
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:54:22 GMT
I have a strange routing problem. This is how my current network looks
like:
ethernet telephone ppp
O-------------------O_________________________O
Win98 PC 1 Win98 PC 2 Linux PC (userver)
192.168.3.30 192.168.3.5 192.168.1.3
Win98 PC 2 connects to the Linux PC via telephone line. For this PC I
enabled routing and set the following entries in the lmhosts file:
192.168.1.3 userver #PRE
192.168.3.5 Thinkpad #PRE
Now it is no problem to find userver from either PC while connected.
Here's the problem: I replaced the Win98 PC 2 by a second Linux server.
This server should do the same routing job. When I use the Internet
this works fine. I also can ping userver from either PC. But I cannot
find userver in my network environement anymore.
Doesn't Linux route MS-LAN / Samba protocol? How can I activate it?
Thanx in advance
Caspar
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 01:29:39 -0500
From: B Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Detected ethernet card unresponsive
My SMC Ultra 16 isa card is detected normally by my (pII)Redhat
5.2 system. However, when a remote system tries to
access exported partions via NFS, its requests simply
time out. ie:
mount clntudp_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC:
Timed out
Ifconfig always reports a decent number of Rx and Tx packets
for a functioning ethernet interface- even if the card is not
attached to a network. It bothers me that i get this result:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:2063 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2063 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:C0:13:95:BE
inet addr:192.68.2.1 Bcast:192.68.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
-> -> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
-> -> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x230 Memory:d0000-d4000
Results of a netstat -i:
Kernel Interface table
Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR
Flags
lo 3584 0 2037 0 0 0 2037 0 0 0
BLRU
eth0 1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
BRU
ppp0 552 0 8796 0 0 0 6610 0 0 0
PRU
There appear to be no hardware conflicts. I also get the same
result with a D-Link De220P (Ne2000 clone) isa card: detected,
but dead. The card passes all of the software diagnostics and
both cards should be in working order.
The fustrating thing is that this exact opperation worked
at one point and time, though it was several months ago and with
a diffent card. If i have inadvertantly messed something up, i have
not found it. My knowledge on the subject is admittedly
somewhat limited and i have been unable to locate a answer in the
howtos.
I would greatly appreciate any help
Brent Shields
Results of a netstat -r:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt
Iface
32.xxx.xxx.xx * 255.255.255.255 UH 552 0 0
ppp0
192.68.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0
eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0
lo
default 32.xxx.xxx.xx 0.0.0.0 UG 552 0 0
ppp0
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From: "Andrey Smirnov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network numbering question...
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 22:27:58 -0700
If your subnet mask is 255.255.255.128 why are you using broadcast address
of 192.168.1.255?
You should use 192.168.1.127 as a broadcast address and network address
should be 192.168.1.128.
Good luck!
Kevin Hillabolt wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Does this look like it makes any sense? Please respond to my email if
>you can...
>
>TIA,
>Kevin Hillabolt
>
>** To reply, remove "nospam" from the return address **
>
>
>*** Network Design ***
>
>Broadcast - 192.168.1.255
>Network address - 192.168.1.0
>
>Subnetting - 255.255.255.0 & 255.255.255.128
>
>Win98
>IP 192.168.1.4
>Broadcast 192.168.1.255
>Network 192.168.1.0
>Subnet 255.255.255.128 (Notice the 128 on the end)
>
>Win98
>IP 192.168.1.3
>Broadcast 192.168.1.255
>Network 192.168.1.0
>Subnet 255.255.255.128 (Notice the 128 on the end)
>
>Linux (two network cards, one machine....)
>ETH1
>IP 192.168.1.2
>Broadcast - 192.168.1.255
>Network - 192.168.1.0
>Subnet 255.255.255.128 (Notice the 128 on the end)
>
>ETH0
>IP 192.168.1.1
>Broadcast - 192.168.1.255
>Network - 192.168.1.0
>Subnet 255.255.255.0 (Notice the zero on the end)
>
>
>
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From: "Tony C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Identd -- necessary?
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:11:25 -0700
Monte,
You're certainly a breath of fresh air. Perhaps you missed the part where
Mike indicated that he'd read the man pages? Or perhaps some systems, like
mine for example, do not have a man page for identd?
This is clearly a NG of many newbies, myself included. If reading newbie
posts bugs you perhaps you should stop reading them and for Pete's sake quit
responding to them!
Sheesh, get a life...
TC
Monte Phillips wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On 22 Jun 1999 20:54:17 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike
>Kozlowski) wrote:
>
>I really cannot believe the crop of idiots on todays postings.
>Christ do a man identd, it clearly tells you what it does.
>No ' I'm NOT gonna tell you look it up yourself.
>
>
>>I most certainly do want telnet and ftp access, so I'm not going to turn
>>off inetd. (And httpd is not started by inetd at all.)
>>
>>>do that. As for identd, never heard of it.
>>
>>Thank you for your enlightening response.
>>
>>(After further research, it looks like identd is used mainly by IRC, for
>>which I have no use; and sendmail, for which I do. Will turning it off
>>break mail transport? I'm reluctant to experiment, since the machine in
>>question is the company's Internet gateway.)
>
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From: "Giorgio Descalzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: R: ppp always connects but sometimes drops
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:05:08 +0200
look at your new Internet Service Provider.
The problem is in their manner of manage the dialup connections
Giorgio Descalzo
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From: "--==[bolMyn]==--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba Questions....
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:15:46 GMT
You would mount (man smbmount) your NT shares on your Linux volume (e.g.
/mnt/NTvol1, /mnt/NTvol2, etc.) at which point they become an integral part of
your Linux file system structure. Once they are mounted, simply use a file
manager to browse it (depending what you're using, it might be easier or not).
If you are looking for a utility that would remotely resemble network
neighborhood, than you have to download third party utilities to do this. A
few days ago, Chad Spencer posted a utility just like that at
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chadspen/. You can download it and then, you
will be able to browse your network like in Windows.x environment (and
more....)
Mark wrote:
> I am a NT Tech who is playing with Linux and Samba for the first time. I am
> pretty sure everything is configured properly, except for two usability
> issues:
>
> The first issue is I would like to know how to browse my NT servers from the
> Linux box. Is there a Samba browsing utility I am missing?
>
> Second, I have read and write access configured for each user, in their own
> directory which is created when you create the local linux account, but this
> only allows for file storage. How can users be given access to each other's
> folders for file sharing?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated...
>
> Mark Bitz
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Bolek,
URL: http://www.bolek.com
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP default route problems?? Me too! :)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 03:15:45 -0700
"Gregory D. Horne" wrote:
> "Juan P. Ordonez" wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I�m trying to hook up my pc to the internet using RH5,2. (Apollo
> > Kernel 2.0.3-PPD 2.3.5) but I have experiencing problems, here are the
> > symptoms:
> > -I can establish a connection with the ISP succesfully
> > -I can ping the ISP DNS server, ping the given IP address (dynamic IP)
> > and the ISP remote computer
> > -The DNS resolver works fine, any address get translated to its IP
> > number.
> > -I cannot get ping responses from any computer outside the ISP
> > machines.
> >
>
> As root or super user (su), enter the following command at the
> command-line prompt.
> $ route
>
> The default gateway should map to your ISP.
>
> Also, what IP address are you using on your computer (not the dynamic IP
> assigned by the ISP) - there are certain restrictions on IP addresses
> used locally if your domain is not registered.
>
> Let us know and then we can proceed with more assistant if needed.
>
> Gregory D. Horne
> Information Technology Architect
> The Network Laboratorium (NetLab)
> Ottawa ON
> Canada
>
I have this exact same problem. I have a made up ip and domain name
on my machine
binky.lunatick.com 208.221.1.1
here is my route table -
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
208.221.1.1 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
eth0
204.140.219.3 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
ppp0
208.221.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default 204.140.219.3 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
ppp0
default 208.221.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
eth0
[root@binky /root]#
I made quite a bit of progress today, but I'd love to be able to see beyond
my ISP.
Any help would be appriciated !!!
So happy to be beyond Win98!!!
Thanks in advance for any help!
Sean
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Jagdis)
Subject: Re: linux setup QoS/Fair Queuing disabled?
Date: 23 Jun 1999 11:12:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <oeUb3.179$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Zonghua Gu wrote:
>Hi
>When I was setting up linux 2.2.10 and I run make xconfig, there is a number
>of buttons that are disabled, including QoS/Fair Queuing. Does any one know how
>to install that option? Basically that option lets you define your own queuing
>algorithm instead of using the default FIFO queue at the network device. THanks.
Enable the experimental stuff option right at the beginning.
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Altena)
Subject: Re: Samba and Win98
Date: 23 Jun 1999 12:36:45 +0200
"Serafino Sini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Brian Witowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> The problem isnt to do with encrypted passwords. Even if it was, it
>> shouldn't bomb. It should deny me access. Actually it was a Word97
>> file. I was the owner etc. Read my post again...I said I could
>> drag it across the network to the Win98 box then open it locally.
>> If it was a Linux executable it wouldn't open very well, would it?
>> I am all set up for plain-text passwords. It just doesn't like
>> opening them across the network sometimes.
> What version of Samba are you running...make sure you are running the
> latest. Although it is possible that microsoft is upto no good with 98...
This very well could be the Samba version, IIRC V2.0.4 had some probs with
Word files (something to do with locking) This was fixed in Samba 2.0.4b
HTH,
\Geert.
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From: "Andrey Smirnov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 questions...
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 22:50:08 -0700
As soon as you connect to your ISP use ifconfig -a command to see what's
your IP.
To change the hostname check /etc/HOSTNAME file.
Good luck!
Eric Wyles wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I'm running RH .2
>
>1) How do I find out what my ip address is? I am on a DHCP
>network and everything works fine, I just need to know what
>my IP address is.
>
>2) What is the proper way to go about changing the name of
>my machine? I don't want it to be called
>localhost.localdomain. I recall from the last time that I
>did this that I had some problems with send mail and a few
>other things after I attempted to change my hostname (ie,
>sendmail took ages at boot time). In windows I use:
>computer name= "c3po"
>workgroup= "Phantom Menace"
>
>I would like to have this same configuration in Linux.
>
>Thanks,
>Eric
>
>
>
>**** Posted from RemarQ - http://www.remarq.com - Discussions Start Here
(tm) ****
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:37:37 +0200
From: Andreas Kyek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: usr sportster 28.8 modem init string for office use HELP
Hey,
here we have to use at x3 dt .....
That's because our PBX does not provide a "normal" dial-tone. X3 (as far
as I remember) tells the modem not to wait for a dialtone.
Andreas
Michel Catudal wrote:
> Terry Moore wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I have usr sportster 28.8 (is not PNP )
> >
> > at home on a POTS line ATDT123-1234 works fine.
> >
> > when i took it to the office it requirs 9 -123-1234
> >
> > ATDT9123-1234 fails with no dial tone
> >
> > i have tries many variations of , ; \ to get it to work.
> >
> > does anyone have a string that works for this application ??
> >
> > Thanks in advance,....
> >
> > linux 2.0.34 slackware...............
> >
> > at diald sting would work too..
> >
> > Terry
>
> At work I have to dial 9 twice
> and enter
> 9,,9,,8327001
> which works
>
> the , is for a pause. Put as many as needed.
> --
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> use Linux for safe and quick internet access
> use Winblows to test the latest viruses
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steen Suder)
Subject: How to have redundant nameservers?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:39:04 GMT
I'd like to set up a redundant DNS system on our intranet.
If one goes away, there will be another "master" (not slave) that is
authoritative for the zone.
Our current DNS is dynamically updated from the DHCP server and works
as it should.
(Leases file changes, prog. updates the master DNS, the master DNS
notifies slave, slave does zone transfer from the master... the usual
stuff...).
So I want to make sure that both servers has approx. the same data.
This is a problem since it's not allowed to dynamically update a slave
DNS from others than the zone master. As far as I'm concerned, that
is.
How do I do this? Any suggestions without having to go into a
clustersolution like EDDIE or the like?
A clever hack is OK as long as it follows standards.
Sytem is (preferably) RedHat 6.0, BIND8 and DHCPD (both ISC) with some
additional utility software.
Two machines with both dns_update prog., BIND and DHCP installed.
Best regards,
Steen Suder
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From: "Tiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: figured SAMBA out. ignore my previouse message. Got a question about
PROXY .. any help?
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 22:45:14 -0400
I see what I wrote in 1st paragraph. Sorry. my brain gets achy when it works
with SAMBA. You do not have to help my old bud. when I see a question for
you I will try to answer it any way.. ..
still hope some one can help me figuring proxy out..
Thanks
Joseph
Monte Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Well Tiger ol' buddy, after reading that first paragraph, I believe I
> will NOT help you.
>
> "Tiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I have been for a while looking for help and did not get it for a simple
> >problem.. of which did not get help. I think we just have to find the
hard
> >way and do not help each other.
> >
> >Well, Dos any one know about proxy?? I need to set my machine as a proxy
> >server for the rest of the lab I'm working in. no NT available Linux will
be
> >the only machine.
>
> Yep, I know about setting up a proxy, but I won't tell you now.
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Reply-To: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with ident over my ip-masq'ed i-net linux router...
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 06:26:28 -0500
I use the mident packate to get around this.
Sleinfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hey...
>
> I have a linux box running just fine ip masq'ed for a litte (4)
> windows comps. I only have problems with the ident requests from web
> and from ftp sites seem to stop at the linux box. I have tried to run
> identd daemons on my windows machine to check if requests are asked,
> but it seems that the requests stop at my linux machine. Is there a
> way to force them through ? Or a way to set up linux so that if it
> gets a ident request it should forward it to a specific computer ? Or
> force linux to reply e.g. seinfeld@ipadress or test@ipadresss ?
>
> Sleinfeld,
> -----
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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