Linux-Networking Digest #643, Volume #11         Thu, 24 Jun 99 00:13:48 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Network numbering question... (Frank Sweetser)
  Re: TCI@HOME with linux (John Oliver)
  Re: Network unreachable on startup only! (S P Arif Sahari Wibowo)
  How do I monitor networks trafics from my linux box? (Simon)
  Re: is there any winsock-proxy for linux? (Simon)
  help -- database ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  anybody seen such sofware? (Denis)
  Re: triggering pppd through external phone call (Harald Schwefel)
  Re: 2 modems routing problem (Clifford Kite)
  Re: Samba Configuration (Monte Phillips)
  Re: redhat 6.0 + mediaone express (Bill)
  Re: Linux Proxy Server (Frank Hahn)
  Re: diald still dials every time (Frank Hahn)
  Re: pppd source (Frank Hahn)
  Re: "Network Unreachable" (Frank Hahn)
  Re: Slackware CD image (Frank Hahn)
  Re: Linux print filter writing (Frank Hahn)
  Remote fsck possible for Linux? (Abe Lin)
  Re: patch panels (Jim Richardson)
  Re: cable modem or ASDL (David Pinero)
  Re: Why not C++ (John E. Davis)

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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network numbering question...
Date: 23 Jun 1999 18:04:37 -0400

Kevin Hillabolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Does this look like it makes any sense?  Please respond to my email if
> you can...

no.  you're taking this network space

|-----------------|

and trying to split it up like this

|-----------------|
        |---------|

this can be done w/proxy arp, but trust me, it's a royal PITA and not worth
it unless you have to.  you need to split it up like so

|--------||--------|

ie, into two .127 networks, or just leave them all in the same .255
network. 

-- 
Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu fsweetser at blee.net  | PGP key available
paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.5        i586 | at public servers
Sometimes we choose the generalization.  Sometimes we don't.
             -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Oliver)
Subject: Re: TCI@HOME with linux
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 01:45:35 GMT

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 02:49:35 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>However with my redhat linux 6.0 I am ready to dump linux forever if I
>cannot get my problem fixe.

Go back to 5.2  Red Hat is notorious for broken .0 releases... :-)


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From: S P Arif Sahari Wibowo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Network unreachable on startup only!
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:26:58 -0500

Hi!

Sorry I missed some information before:

I use RedHat Linux 6.0 and rtl8139 driver to run a network card with
Realtek 8139 chip.

On startup, several commands involving routing gives this error:

SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable

However, after the startup process over and I login as root, I can
manually do all the routing command without error.

Any idea why?

Thanks.

                                   S P Arif Sahari Wibowo
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From: Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I monitor networks trafics from my linux box?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 21:53:19 -0400

Hi 
        I have set-up my firewall and proxy (socks) server on my linux server
with apache web server too. I just want to monitor any networks package
which came from internet,  I need some kind of software which can tell
me where those package came from and where is their destination. It is
great, if the software works under X window. 

thanks

Simon Zhou

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From: Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: is there any winsock-proxy for linux?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 21:57:45 -0400

Marc Eggenberger wrote:
> 
> Hi there.
> 
> I have a Windows NT server which I want to replace by a linux box ... but
> the most important service which is running on the NT Server is the
> Microsoft Proxy running as WinSock Proxy .. is there anything on the
> linux side?
> 
> --
> mfg
> Eggenberger Marc

Check www.socks.nec.com shows you socks server run under *NIX platform.

Simon

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: help -- database
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:01:18 +0800

Hi,

    My company wants to focus our database product -DBMaker (Does
anyone hear about it? DBMaker has 5-user free package for anyone who
wants to try it.) on Linux. We need to gether more information. So I
have some questions need you guys' help.

    1. Execpt Perl, PHP3 and Python, is there any more popular front-end

tool that I can use it to development application on database?

    2. What's GTK+? Is it popular?

    3. What do you think a database should have to make you like to use
it?

    4. What do you think a well-defined database solution should have?

    ChingYi






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From: Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: anybody seen such sofware?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:59:51 -0400

Hi, I'm looking for software that helps 
planning, tracking, and analyzing workouts (such as for triathlon) under
linux. I know there are such things for Windows. (i.e RunLog.) Anybody
seen something like that? I would really apreciate if you can let me
know about it.
thanks a lot.
denis

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From: Harald Schwefel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: triggering pppd through external phone call
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:01:48 -0400

There is a nice Hands-on Howto at:

http://www.nic.com/~cannon/Linux/

This should tell you all. If you run by anyone who knows how to have get
the dial-in via external call, tell me!

harald

Stuart Low wrote:
> 
> COME TO THINK OF IT! THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR ME TO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> Can you please send me all the details sometime to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] RIGHT FROM STEP 0 please cause I am only a
> beginner...
> 
> See ya
> 
> Stuart Low
> 
> Harald Schwefel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi,
> > I have my box at home connected by modem via pppd to the net. Now I want
> > to trigger the dial-in process, by calling my machine (e.g. from work)
> > via normal telephone line (not from a computer), type some numbercode
> > (via toutch-tone) and hang up.
> >
> > My home box then should dial in and send me an email to an external
> > emailaccount with its new IP address, so that I can login myself (i.g.
> > from work) and get the data I want.
> >
> > The dialin through pppd is no problem (I have it triggered though
> > requesting a non-local IP adress), but how can I have mgetty watch the
> > line and responde to an touchetone message?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > harald

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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: 2 modems routing problem
Date: 23 Jun 1999 21:09:53 -0500

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

: I have 2 modems on my linux server. One stays on a leased line
: and has a ppp connection to our internet provider.
: The second stays for incoming calls with mgetty +ppp +pap.
: On the same box I have a network card which is used for masquerading our
: LAN (C class - 192.168.x.x). I also configured a squid cache server
: in order to reduce traffic with the ISP.

: I gave to the second modem (for incoming calls) an address from our
: LAN so that it looks like a member of the LAN and I put the local IP
: identical with the network card IP (the gateway for the LAN).
: The problem is that after I enter with an incoming call into the
: network with a remote windows machine (pap) I cannot browse the inter
: the internet and I can't even ping another machine (from the internet)

: Can anybody tell me how should I configure the routing table in order to
: behave access to the internet. (I didn't forget to put in the options file
: the proxyarp option). If I enter directly with mgetty and login speed is ok.

I'll guess you have IP-forwarding compiled into the kernel and turned on,
IP-masquerading probably requires it.  In the 2.2.x series kernel you also
need to turn on proxyarp with
  echo -n 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ppp0/proxy_arp
or perhaps
  echo -n 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/proxy_arp

The IP address for both the local and remote must be on the same subnet
to proxy arp the LAN for the call-in machine.  I *think* that this is
the case for you, but I'm not 100% sure.  The IP-masquerading would also
have to include the remote PPP address to allow the call-in to access
the Internet, and I don't know enough about masquerading to say yea or
nay about that.

--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com>                    Not a guru. (tm)
/* Editing with vi is a lot better than using a huge swiss army knife. */

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Monte Phillips)
Subject: Re: Samba Configuration
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:28:17 GMT

/etc/smb.conf
Look in the /etc/hosts.allow  & /etc/hosts.deny


>Terence Parker wrote:
>> Firstly - where is the Samba Configuration on Caldera OpenLinux 2.2? Anyone
>> know? This is not important, but I just started playing with Caldera on my
>> other machine - and everything is different to my existing Red Hat System.
>>
>> Secondly, does anyone know how I can (or if I can) restrict IP addresses
>> using Samba? I know there is that setting near the top of the SMB.CONF file
>> which allows me to restrict the IP addresses that can access the Samba
>> Server - but is there a way in which I can set IP restrictions to specific
>> shared resources? Looking through my SMB.CONF file I only see examples of
>> restrictions by username and group - but not by IP address.


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From: Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 6.0 + mediaone express
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:03:47 -0500



_Proxima wrote:

> Hi ..
> I read every how-to on how to configure my cable modem to run with red-hat
> linux 6.0 and it still doesn't work.
> I really need some help.
> I have few questions
> 1) how can I know if my network card is working?
> 2)On startup I get APM Daemon failed , what is APM Daemon?
> 3)How can I reconfigure my desktop because the background it only taking 70%
> of my monitor the rest is blank?
>
> Any help would be really appreciated.
> Thank You

Answer to question 1.  type:  ifconfig
2.  APM Advanced Power Management is a power management standard set  by
Microsoft, Intel and other major manufacturers.
3.  Sorry can't help on that one.  Not sure myself.




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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: Linux Proxy Server
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 03:22:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 21:52:28 -0700, Thomas Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 wrote:
>Hugh Saunders wrote:
>> 1. If I (or my girlfriend) fires up Internet Explorer on the Windows
>> box, the Linux server will dial a connection if the URL isn't local.
>
>Diald is what I use, although you can get pppd to demand dial (never
>versions, but if you are running RH6.0--no problems).
>
If you decide to set up diald on your Linux machine, you can also
look at the program called dialmon.  You can install it on your
MS Windows machine and use it to control the diald connection.

-- 
Frank Hahn

"The first rule of magic is simple.  Don't waste your time waving your
hands and hoping when a rock or a club will do."
                -- McCloctnik the Lucid

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: diald still dials every time
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 03:22:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:52:04 GMT, Paulo Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>With this standard.filter my diald stop to dial every time, but still
>dials mainly when I try to connect my Windows Box (Find Computer) or
>when I try to get my local pop3 messages (intranet).
>
>Does this standard.filter has some documentation?
>
I would look through the diald documentation or see if there is a
man page for it.  Off hand, I don't know.


>While I tune my diald I have a workarround idea:
>
>My users access first my intranet pages. There are a link to "connect
>to internet". My user will have to click on this link. Then in linux I
>have a script that dials, connect and run pppd.
>
>Do someone knows how can I do that. Can I run minicom to do that?
>
Not sure how to do the above.

-- 
Frank Hahn

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: pppd source
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 03:22:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:36:14 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i would like to connect to my isp by chap
>but it failed, i have read PPP-HOWTO
>and it said my isp may use MSCHAP80, and i need to recompile pppd
>where can i find the pppd source?
>
>I have searched freshmeat and cannot find it.
>
You can find the most recent pppd archive with documentation here:

ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/

A search of http://www.deja.com most likely would have found it also.

-- 
Frank Hahn

Every nonzero finite dimensional inner product space has an orthonormal basis.

It makes sense, when you don't think about it.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: "Network Unreachable"
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 03:22:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 03:14:43 GMT, Velid Arnautovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am running Caldera 1.3 in a dual boot Win95 machine (the other machine
>is Linux/win95 as well) with a hub.
>
>I can ping each other under the Linux (both machines set as Linux). The
>same if I setup as Win95 machines. But when I try one machine as Linux
>and other as Win 95 - I cannot ping each other. Something is wrong in
>Win 95 setup.
>
>
>Jeff Ofgang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
><7kjg3a$f62$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> I am running Caldera 2.2. in a dual boot with Win95a.
>> I have two home computers networked with a hub.  (The other computer is
>> Win98)
>> 
>> The network works perfectly under Windows. Each computer can ping the
>> other and I use modem sharing software to share a dial-up connection.
>> 
>> But, I can't get the network to work under Linux. I have adjusted the
>> hosts file, hosts allow, hosts deny. Also created an imaginary DNS
>> server. Used the IP number of the Linux box as a gateway for the other.
>> 
>> I have tried two network cards -- Linux detected both, their modules
>> loaded fine, but still nothing happens.
>> 
>> Likewise, I have set up Samba but it doesn't appear on the other
>> computer's Network Neighborhood.
>
The only thing that comes to mind is to make sure that TCP/IP
networking in enabled on the Windows machines.  The other thing
that I can think of is to set up your hosts files on the Windows
machines also.  Mine looks just like the one on the Linux machine.
It goes in the c:\windows directory.

-- 
Frank Hahn

One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: Slackware CD image
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 03:22:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 03:47:35 GMT, William B. Cattell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 wrote:
>I've downloaded the Slackware distribution from ftp.cdrom.com
>(geez I luv the cable modem).  It *looks* like it's meant to be a
>bootable CD - I see a .eltorito dir under /bootdsks.144 and an
>image called eltorito.img which is 1Mb in size.
>
>My question is this - is it possible to make a bootable Slackware
>CD (I've burned a bootable Red Hat 6 image to CD)?  The Red Hat
>CD I made was from a bootable image I downloaded.  I'd like to
>get some guidance on how to make (if it's possible) a bootable
>Slackware CD.  TIA.
>
You might try a search of http://www.deja.com?  There have been many
examples given of the commands needed for the mkisofs program to make
a bootable CD when it is constructing a disk image.

-- 
Frank Hahn

"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"
                -- Oscar Wilde

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: Linux print filter writing
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 03:22:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 02:56:41 -0700, R.H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone knows where I can go on the web to find
>a source for writing my own print filter.  I can't seem to get linux to
>work with my HP5L laser printer through a Linksys EPSX3 print server.  I
>have tried everything I can think of including manually editing the
>printcap file, but nothing works.  So my last recourse is to try and
>write my own print filter to get the laser printer to work properly. 
>The print server works fine in Win98 and the laser printer works fine
>when connected locally.  But when printing through the LAN the lights
>flash and I might get one page and then nothing and it keeps the rest of
>the data either in the printserver's memory or in the printer's memory
>and the only way to get it out is to manually eject the paper(but it
>does not come out correctly and usually does not print the whole page)
>or turn off the print server and printer and then turn them back on. 
>So, if anyone know where I can find information on writing print filters
>I would appreciate it.
>
My suggestion is to try one of the many magicfilter programs that
can be downloaded from the net that work with Linux and then edit
the files that do the sending of the data to the printer.  It sounds
as if all you really need to do is just send a form feed to the
printer to kick out the last page.

Maybe you can write a short script that sends the correct command
to send a form feed and try it out when you still have data left
in the printer.

I have not looked at the man page for printcap for a lon time, maybe
there might be a couple of suggestions in there.

-- 
Frank Hahn

"I'd love to go out with you, but I did my own thing and now I've got
to undo it."

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From: md5�ϼs�[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abe Lin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Remote fsck possible for Linux?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 03:02:22 GMT

Hi, guys.
For Solaris we can get a console remotely in this setup in the
*locked* machine room 20 kms away from us:

1.One NT box runs pcanywhere. Serial(s) go to two Solaris machine.
2.Using pcanywhere from home. Do whatever you like to save the machine
when it's done. Single user mode. fsck. Anything.

Do we have something for Linux? (With a Linux only solution...)
Cannot find a useful document on this. I'll keep on dejanews search,
but nothing yet showed up....

TIA a lot.

Shuo.


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: patch panels
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:41:47 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 18:42:36 +0100, 
 Lyndon Hills, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 brought forth the following words...:

>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 
>> While I was designing the network I realized that I wasn't planning on
>> using any patch panels, as they seemed rather pointless.  Do they >serve any 
>purpose?  
>
>They do if you're flood cabling a building. Say you probably only _need_
>100 outlets in a building and you're cabling it out.You would maybe
>actually cable 500 outlets, leaving room for redundancy, people to move
>desks around rooms, in many buildings you can move the internal walls as
>they're only partitions. You terminate the lot at a patch panel and only
>connect those that you actually need. Someone moves you just re-patch
>instead of needing to move sockets or run new cables. In some cases you
>can use the use same cables for telephone extensions - again you want
>far more outlets cabled than you actually use at any one time. Getting
>'a man' in to cable three runs costs the same as getting him in to cable
>10 (ok costs of materials but the labour is far more significant).
>
>In the smaller scale instance you describe maybe they're just neater.


They also make a great place to break the system open for trouble shooting.
Or to insert monitering and test equipment.

-- 
Jim Richardson
        Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock
        Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.


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From: David Pinero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cable modem or ASDL
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 03:43:14 GMT

In article <RwDb3.401$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
  bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> but you need to have realistic expectations about cable vs dsl.  dsl
> is usually static ip, cable is usually dhcp.  dsl usually allows
> servers, cable doesn't.  dsl is more like a switched connection, cable
> is more like a shared one.

I just got my cable modem last week and have been very happy with it.
However the more I learn and experience, the more uncertain I am about
whether I'll be using a form of DSL or sticking with cable in two years.

I use Time Warner's Roadrunner in Tampa.  As I say it's been great, but
there are hints of some monolithic conglomerate with free broadband
wield behind it.  It just doesn't seem that concerned about
competition.   Roadrunner's commercials are cheap, it's web pages
haphazardly designed, the hold time for support atrocious, and in my
case the support guy failed to leave me the install disks or any
documentation outside the invoice.  I don't need much documentation
about using the internet, but not handing a customer the disks he'll
need to reinstall the service in case his system crashes is a little
careless (to be fair, I forgot to ask in my excitement).  What's more,
the guy I reached at support to ORDER the disks at first tried to talk
me into going to a location where I could pick them up.  When I
explained I use all my money for internet services, not a car, he sort
of moaned and groaned about how it would take 11 days for me to get a
disk by mail and begrudgingly took the order.  I have to wonder if I'll
even get it without a follow up call. :)  I'll probably wind up
downloading that if I can find it.

The commericals and printed media Roadrunner uses to promote its
service have a sort of un-exciting tint to them.  The commercials
should be promoting a revolution, but they come across as generic ISP
ads who's blazing headline is that you won't tie your phone up to
download.  They are poorly produced, too.  I would describe the
commercial of the obese daughter picking up the phone on her trucker
dad as he downloads god knows what over a "regular" ISP as just plain
strange.  They have a sort of take-it-for-granted air that tells
people "if you want broadband access, we're the only place to get it."

The point of critiquing these technically irrelevant elements to
service performance is that when Roadrunner starts trying to stretch
it's dollar...trying to pack as many people per block onto a single
downstream, starts trying to be the AOL of broadband access, DSL will
make better sense.  It will at least allow you to pick and choose a
competitor with whatever infrastructure you're willing to pay for.  I
have read that @home users in New York state are already victims of
this kind of greedy paring by people who are used to providing cable,
but not network connectivity to techies with refined demands.

I hear the G.Lite standard will be as easy to implement as buying your
last 56 modem.  You go to the store, buy the modem, hook it up, call
your ISP and let them know, and you're in business.  Downstream 1.5
Mbps and 24-hour connectivity.  Cable can be MUCH faster but not when
the neighborhoods begin filling up.  Then it gets worse.  The advantage
to DSL seems to be a rock solid 1-2 Mbps dowstream rate that is
independent of everyone else around you.

Finally, and you are all essentially talking about this in your
references to Linux and such, it seems there is more system autonomy
with DSL.  There's just something weird about the cable company being
so involved with my PC.  The fact that not even a technician will have
to visit you with G.Lite preserves that feeling of electronic
individualism and could be very attractive.  As it is, I'll probably
have to call Roadrunner the day I decide to move my computer from room
A to room B.  That's pretty unsettling. :P

Dave
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John E. Davis)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Why not C++
Date: 24 Jun 1999 03:55:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:09:29 -0700, Ralph Glebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'v started to do some development on the linux platform. Looking at some of
>the source code around, I noticed that it is all C as opposed to C++.

I can tell you why I why I do not use it, although it would be ideally
suited for what I am doing at the moment where I have to resort to
preprocessor macros to fake inheritance from some base class.  The
main reasons that I do not use it are that (until very recently) g++
was considered to be very buggy, and I feel that my code is more
portable if I stick to a subset of ANSI C.

--John

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