Linux-Networking Digest #744, Volume #11 Thu, 1 Jul 99 12:13:38 EDT
Contents:
Re: mgetty[440]: failed in mg_init_data, dev=ttyS1 (Uwe Ohse)
Redhat 6.0 & netscape (Tovo Andriamandroso)
Re: webcam with Linux server and Win98 client ("GC")
Re: Automount of SMB Filesystems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux as a real firewall ("GC")
RL2000A COmpex Network Card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Apache problem, help! ("David Murray")
Re: RH6.0/NFS:permission denied. (Holy mackerel, dere, Andy! We OWNS de machine!)
(Wayne Ringling)
Re: Xwindows display setting get changed how... (Jim Richardson)
HELP: Mail to someone@domain (Oswald Jaskolla)
Re: redirect port 80 traffic to machine inside firewall? (Matt Bartley)
Cable Modem S L O W and Other Network Problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux as a real firewall (Michael Kelly)
Re: ppp server (Michael Kelly)
PPP-Connection to a Linux-Server (Anton Seissl)
win95 clients timeout through linux gateway (joncheyne)
Re: Could not http or ftp via Netscape? (hamka)
Re: Cable Modem/DHCP help (Phil DeBecker)
Re: HELP: DNS - *.foo.org OK foo.org BAD (Jonathan Guthrie)
HELP: How do I set up a caching DNS server? (Alexander Atkin)
How to configure News Server (ceb)
Re: Subnets ("Andrey Smirnov")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Ohse)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.ppp,com.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: mgetty[440]: failed in mg_init_data, dev=ttyS1
Date: 1 Jul 1999 12:53:15 GMT
>Jul 1 11:29:19 inet mgetty[441]: init chat failed, exiting...:
>Interrupted syst
>
>Is this because I don't have any modem connected to this port at the
>moment?
Yes.
>Or something wrong with the setup or the mgetty? I am using
Yes. mgetty needs a modem. It initializes it and then waits for an
ATA.
It doesn't mind if you turn of the modem in between (but if you do
this keep in mind that mgetty expects the modem to be initialized
to a certain state).
Regards, Uwe
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From: Tovo Andriamandroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.0 & netscape
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:13:16 +0200
Hi all,
I have a problem to browse a page with a java applet, netscape
destroy itsself when starting java appeared in the status bar. I've
tried netscape 4.51, 4.6 & 4.61 and I have no change. Can anyone know
where does the problem come from ?
Tovo.
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From: "GC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: webcam with Linux server and Win98 client
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 12:58:46 GMT
Sounds like the reason it does not work is not that you can't send out on
5012, but requests can't make it in to the win98 box. Same problem here with
InetCAM. Haven't really researched it yet, but it may be a good thing to
read stuff from the "linux router project"...
-GC
Robert Burnham wrote in message ...
>I have been pulling what's left of my hairs out on this one.
>How do I make a Win98 machine that's networked into my Linux server (static
>IP) accessible to the internet? I want to it (win98 box) to be able to
send
>a video image out on port 5012 from the win98 box through the Linux server
>to the internet.
>I had it all set up before I was using the Linux server. My Win98 box had a
>ISDN connection to the net and was using my static IP address. I was able
to
>open up a port (5012) and allow internet to see what's on it via a webpage.
>When they clicked on one of my homepages, my webcam image was sent them, a
>live image, not ftp'd in at intervals.
>But since I've switched to using the Linux sever, I've lost the ability to
>send out the live images on this port. I love the way Linux handles my
>network using IP_Masq.
>Do I need to get another static IP address for the Win98 box?
>Or is there a way to do this with out one?
>
>
>--
>-=Robert Burnham=-
>Homepage= http://www.bobbb.com
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Automount of SMB Filesystems
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 13:10:54 GMT
So does it behave the same way if someone telnets/ftps in ??
My LinuxBox is strapped for space, so I setup personal folders on the
Winbox and then created a samba share for them to access it, but with
permissions so they couldn't get into each others.
Will automount do this ?
On 01 Jul 1999 10:45:27 +0200, Harald Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> I had the same desire as well... I created a refresh_mounts script
>> that I added to my rc.local file and also to my cron.hourly script
>> under /etc/cron.hourly/
>
>> It mounts the drives with permissions needed and also checks each one
>> every hour to see if it falls off and remounts it.
>
>IMHO way too complicated. I simply use automount: the share gets
>mounted automagically when you access it, and it gets unmounted after
>some time of inactivity.
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From: "GC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux as a real firewall
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 13:12:02 GMT
Re-building our company's WAN and allowing internet access from one point to
all. I have a 4 pc network and @home network here which uses Linux and
ipfwadm to protect the pc's at the house, and it works fine.I want to use
the same for my business. I have about 500 users total scattered around. Use
is not heavy except e-mail, and about 50 people who may do research, etc.
Any reason NOT to use Linux for this? I have been a big booster of Linux
since 1.0.x kernel, but have never deployed it at work for fear that "you
get what you pay for" will catch up with me. But I can't stand giving money
to Microsoft. The alternative is something like Eagle on NT.
Any Linux firewall horror stories? Any great successes?
I have also tried and like the linux Router Project stuff...any comments on
that?
-George C
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RL2000A COmpex Network Card
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 13:33:22 GMT
Hello,
please could somebody advice me what driver to install for the RL2000A
Compex PnP Ethernet Adapter and where can I obtain it ? Or shall I
simply use the driver for NE2000 ?
Thanks a lot for help
Best regards
Tomas
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Apache problem, help!
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:08:04 GMT
I have apache running on my webserver at http://venus.murraynet.net but I
have a problem. I can be at work and update my website remotely and hit
reload on my browser and it seems to show the updated page. But if I go
home or if my friends reload the page it doesn't update. Last night I
tried clearing my web-browser cache, didn't help. I restarted httpd on the
server, didn't help. I rebooted the server, didn't help. At home it is
still showing the old page and at work (here) it shows the correct page.
Don't know if it matters or not but the O/S is RedHat 5.2 for Intel. What
in the heck is going on? I edited the httpd.conf file, by the way. I made
certain all the caching features were turned off. They were by default so
I didn't need to change anything. What is the deal?
--DavidM.
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From: Wayne Ringling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.0/NFS:permission denied. (Holy mackerel, dere, Andy! We OWNS de
machine!)
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 09:35:25 -0400
Put the client in the host file worked for me.
like this
192.168.0.21 apollo.somedomain.com apollo
(worked for me, I am installing my fourth system now.)
I have alse heard that Mandrake has the problem also. It seems that some
security was tightened and that has made this necessary.
Wayne
blortz thraggh wrote:
> Brothers!
>
> Trying to install 6.0 RH from a RH6.0 machine over a lan (two machines).
>
> I'm exporting /mnt/cdrom to 192.168.1.1 they connect and permission is
> denied. I see I'm not the only fella having this problem, but as of this
> writing,
> I see no solutions. Anybody get an NFS install to work with Redhat 6.0
> (they
> changed a bunch of stuff, you know) over a 10mbps lan?
>
> Is NIS required to make this work? (I hope not!!!)
> Any assistance greatly appreciated.
>
> regards,
>
> blortz
> Linux: If it was easy, we'd have to find another operating system. :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: Xwindows display setting get changed how...
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:15:00 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 02:07:06 GMT,
Shawn Pursley, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>I need to change the display of my RH6.0 xwindows sessions. Currently they
>are set to 640x480 and I need them at 800x600. Being a newbie, is there a
>simple way to fix this rather than re-installing.
>
>Thanks,
>Shawn
>
>
>
Run Xconfigurator as root.
--
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: Oswald Jaskolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP: Mail to someone@domain
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 16:14:51 +0200
Hi,
I have a small network with two Linux computers. Now what I want is
this: When sending mail to someuser@mydomain, I want it to go to
mail.mydomain, which is an ip-alias of server.mydomain.
But all I get is a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] saying something
like:
Primary mail exchanger for mail.mydomain points back to server.mydomain.
I've read some sendmail documentation and it tells me tons on forwarding
all mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], but this is not really what I want.
In the DNS zonefile mail.mydomain is listed as mailexchanger for
mydomain.
Is this a problem with DNS or sendmail?
Can I make certain ip-aliases not to listen on all ports? E.g. I don't
want ftp.mydomain to respond to requests comming through port 80.
I'm using SUSE 6.0 and apart from the above my network works fine.
Thanx
Oswald
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Bartley)
Subject: Re: redirect port 80 traffic to machine inside firewall?
Date: 1 Jul 1999 07:31:04 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, phon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>what you need is rinetd ( internet redirection service ).
>get a binary somewhere and install it
>then place in the /etc/rinetd.conf file the following rule :
>
>bindaddress bindport connectaddress connectport
>
>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 80 192.168.0.3 80
> ^
> firewall address
>i hope my explanation has helped you a bit with your problem
It's already a package in Debian, even. It works great. Thanks.
--
"When PCs run new applications successfully, most people feel relief
and almost pathetic gratitude - a standard of reliability tolerated in
no other consumer product."
_Economist_, Sept. 12 1998
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cable Modem S L O W and Other Network Problems
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:38:16 GMT
I am trying to set up my cable modem (@HOME) on my Linux box, and am
running into all sorts of problems.
I'm running RH 6.0 on a P75 with 24 megs of ram. My ethernet card is
a Linksys ne2000 compatible that is properly detected on eth0 at boot
up. I know I am at least partially connected to the internet, because
I can ping by IP and by text names. I can connect via FTP and telnet
to other machines, but get timed out because of the slowness of my
modem. I can send mail from my machine to other internet addresses.
Nslookup on my hostname comes back as correct. I can ping both of my
nameservers from my machine and others. I can pull up web sites
in Netscape by their fully qualified domain names, however this too is
very slow (5 minutes and counting to pull up Red Hat's site).
I *cannot* ping my IP address or machine name from other computers or
send mail to my machine from other computers. Also, as I mentioned, I
keep getting timed out (or give up) on ftp or telnet sessions because of
the painfully slow connection.
I am thoroughly confused, because I seem to have at least a partial
connection, and am able to resolve internet addresses, but I can't be
seen by anyone else on the internet! I followed the NET3 HOWTO and
I think my config files are all ok. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I think my hardware is adequate, but maybe not. Also, the cable modem
was initially set up on a Win98 PC using a USB port, not a regular
NIC card. Could this be causing any conflicts?
Please HELP!
TIA
Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kelly)
Subject: Re: Linux as a real firewall
Date: 1 Jul 1999 14:41:49 GMT
In article <COJe3.15130$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"GC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Re-building our company's WAN and allowing internet access from one point to
> all. I have a 4 pc network and @home network here which uses Linux and
> ipfwadm to protect the pc's at the house, and it works fine.I want to use
> the same for my business. I have about 500 users total scattered around. Use
> is not heavy except e-mail, and about 50 people who may do research, etc.
> Any reason NOT to use Linux for this? I have been a big booster of Linux
> since 1.0.x kernel, but have never deployed it at work for fear that "you
> get what you pay for" will catch up with me. But I can't stand giving money
> to Microsoft. The alternative is something like Eagle on NT.
I don't know about the network details but I thought you might be interested
that there was a rep. for a company providing commercial Linux support on
John Devorak's "Real Computing" show recently. I don't recall the company
but you might bet more info on some professional backing for your system
on the real computing web site.
http://www.realcomputing.com
or at least find out what company that was. I'm sure more and more are
getting into this field. Anyway, with Linux the hackers may have the
source code but at least so do you, so you have a chance to plug the
security holes. :)
>
> Any Linux firewall horror stories? Any great successes?
>
> I have also tried and like the linux Router Project stuff...any comments on
> that?
>
> -George C
>
>
>
--
Mike
"Genius gives birth, talent delivers."
- Jack Kerouac
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kelly)
Subject: Re: ppp server
Date: 1 Jul 1999 14:51:07 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
gronkster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have managed to sucessfully set up a ppp server with red
> hat 6.0 for use with win95. There is only one problem
> though. I can successfully ping the ppp server from the
> win95 machine but when i try to ping any other address it
> just times out. The ppp server can ping anywhere so i am
> assuming that it is set up properly.
If it fails only when using names it may be a DNS problem.
If it fails with both IP addresses and names then it's likely
not DNS but may be routing. Have you set up your Win95 to
use the default route and have you entered the IP addresses
for the DNS servers? Does the 'host' command work okay
looking up host names?
>
> I have include the ms-dns, netmask and proxyarp options in
> my options file.
>
> I am only a newbie and i am unsure where to look next for
> the problem. Your help would be most appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ryan
>
>
>
>
> **** Posted from RemarQ - http://www.remarq.com - Discussions Start Here (tm) ****
--
Mike
"Genius gives birth, talent delivers."
- Jack Kerouac
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From: Anton Seissl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP-Connection to a Linux-Server
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 17:00:30 +0200
Hi!
I have to connect a Win95-Client to a Linux-Server over TCP-IP (PPP).
The connection
works, and I also can ping the Server (192.100.1.90) from the client
(192.100.1.190).
The only problem I have now: I can't ping the rest of the LAN behind the
Linux-Server
(for example the Client 192.100.1.63). IP-Forwarding is set to *yes*,
but it still doesn't
work.
Has anyone an idea what to do?
Thanks for your reply,
Toni
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From: joncheyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: win95 clients timeout through linux gateway
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:05:27 GMT
Hi, not sure where to post this. Thought i'd try here first.
We have a linux machine running as an ipmasq'ing gateway for 30 win95
pc's. recently some of them have started to grab only the first few
pages during a web browsing session and then start timing out. (they
retrieve the ip address fine, maybe from cache).
If you reboot each pc then they are fine for a while but then it starts
again.
Where should I concentrate my research?
1. the local hub?
2. cable too long?
3. win95 networking?
4. tcpip tuning or params on the linux box?
any clues would be gratefully received.
Jonathan
London
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From: hamka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: jaring.os.linux
Subject: Re: Could not http or ftp via Netscape?
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 22:53:03 +0800
Mohamad Termizi wrote:
> HI..
>
> I am newbie in Linux.
>
> Recently, I managed to get my modem connected to my ISP and I could see
> or even pinged my remote IP address. The connection was stable and
> running at 50666 bps.I launched the Netscape 4.51 (bundled with Caldera
> v2.2) but were prompted with message '...name server could not be
> found..'
>
> My question is why could be the possible solution to this?
>
> TIA
>
> ...termizi
check out ur resolv.conf file
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Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 11:11:02 -0400
From: Phil DeBecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable Modem/DHCP help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My cable modem connection is working fine in win95. My red hat 5.1 box
> seems to recognize my ethernet card fine (3Com 509b isa card), and
> attempt to make use DHCP to get network settings. It fails every time.
> I tried to use the settings that DHCP was using in windows, but that
> didn't work either. Is there any reason that DHCP would not work in
> linux? thanks for your help.
>
One hint, since I don't know if you're doing this already: most cable
ISPs (@home for example) require that your DHCP client supply the
hostname assigned to you. In the Windows DHCP settings there should be a
hostname; make sure your linux DHCP client is using the "-h hostname"
option. You may need to upgrade to a later version of DHCP that supports
this, if yours doesn't.
If you're using netcfg to configure your interface, you may have to edit
the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup script and modify the line that
invokes dhcpcd, adding the -h hostname option.
Hope this helps,
Phil
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From: Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: DNS - *.foo.org OK foo.org BAD
Date: 1 Jul 1999 14:00:47 GMT
Kingsley Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've configured my dns data, such that everything works ok,
> except that when I look up the network name.
> $ nslookup
> Default Server: dns1.maddogsbreakfast.com.au
> Address: 203.41.238.33
>> www.maddogsbreakfast.com.au
> Server: dns1.maddogsbreakfast.com.au
> Address: 203.41.238.33
> Non-authoritative answer:
This is a problem. If you're serving the domain, you should be
authoritative. It's probably just a typo in your zone file. Perhaps your
SOA record has an error or you don't have the correct NSERV records. We
automatically check for stray commas and such when we get such errors in
the domains we run. Try setting up a log for bind and see what messages
develop.
> *** dns1.maddogsbreakfast.com.au can't find maddogsbreakfast.com.au:
> Server failed
You'll need an "IN" line for each name that you want to appear.
So, if you have a line like:
maddogsbreakfast.com.au. IN A 203.41.238.33
or
@ IN A 203.41.238.33
it'll resolve the name "maddogsbreakfast.com.au".
You should also put in an MX record for maddogsbreakfast.com.au to make
sure the mail always goes to the right place.
Now, you might be tempted to do something like
@ IN CNAME dns1.maddogsbreakfast.com.au
Do NOT do this. It will not work.
Instead, do something like
@ IN A 203.41.238.33
dns1 IN CNAME @
www IN CNAME @
which is the sort of thing that works for me.
--
Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/
12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA
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From: Alexander Atkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP: How do I set up a caching DNS server?
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 16:41:06 +0100
I have a small LAN with a Linux router allowing it to access the
internet through my V.90 modem.
How could I set up a cachine DNS server to help speed up my access as my
ISP has a very slow DNS server sometimes and so im sure it would double
the speed of my access if the router knew the IP addresses of my
favourite sites.
I could put them in manually into hosts but that would be rather a drag
as I have quite a few favourite sites and some of them have changed ISPs
in the past so I dont want to have to keep reconfiguring it.
Thanks,
Alex.
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From: ceb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to configure News Server
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 15:46:02 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I want to set up News Server on Linux redhat 5.2
After the install of linux, I have the INN deamon, but when I launch
Netscape News client, I have this response :
"You have no permission to talk"
What can i do ?
Where configure the differents newsgroups ?
Thanks for help me
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From: "Andrey Smirnov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Subnets
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:48:18 -0700
Are those networks physically close?
Mike wrote in message ...
>I am trying to come to terms with a network problem at work and would
>appreciate any hepl what-so-ever:
>
>I have two separate 192.168 networks that the boss wants to join, they
>should remain as single entities if possible but be able to communicate via
>email.
>
>There is currently no email system on either network.
>
>Since I have limited network design experience any help would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>Mike
>
>
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