Linux-Networking Digest #807, Volume #11 Wed, 7 Jul 99 06:13:37 EDT
Contents:
Re: extra email accounts on different systems ("Ricky J. Sethi")
Re: Home networking using phone lines (Cryptoboy)
NFS not Working on RH6.0 (RH [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: fetchmail & multiple email addresses (Stewart Jeacocke)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (Jim Richardson)
Re: clustering under linux?
automatic dialup to ISP (Andreas Schlager)
How do I smbmount as user not root? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: printing from linux on a "for-window" printer (Franck SCHNEIDER)
Cyrus IMAP-Demon and install problems (Thomas Jach)
Re: D-Link DFE-530TX NIC driver ("Jason Png")
Re: A simple one... (DL)
Re: V35 How to read? (Michael C. Vergallen)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? ("Bob Taylor")
Re: Kernel 2.2.x and arp
dhcpd.conf sample file wanted ("Doug Floer")
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From: "Ricky J. Sethi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: extra email accounts on different systems
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:47:14 -0700
Check out www.flashmail.com Great service, completely free, and free POP3
B'ichela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Joe Keenan wrote:
>
> > B'ichela wrote:
> >
> > > My ISP right now has no one at the office. My boyfriend wants
to be
> > > capable of sending and recieving mail. I know Yahoo,hotmail and cnn
> > > themselves will provide free email accounts.
> > > The problem is. how can he SEND mail when my ISP does not
recognize
> > > him as he does not have an official email account with them. Sendmail
is
> > > set up to sendmail to the smart relay host of mail.ctol.net. I do
know I
> > > can modify his copy of the .getpop3rc file to get mail from say
hotmail but
> > > how can he set up the reply headers to point to his hotmail address
and not
> > > mail.ctol.net? I know how to do it in pine and slrn but what if he had
to
> > > use the standard mailx program?
> >
> > In general, the ISP's routers and mail server could care less what the
From
> > header says. They just won't accept email from any systems not in their
> > address space. Since your connection is to them, the mail just goes
through.
> >
> > joe
> Ok. Does anyone kow of a good mail service that supports pop3?
> Hotmail is web based and the www.cnn.com mail service will do pop3 for a
> fee. Because I am not employed right now I am looking for a free email
> account for Bob my boyfriend that uses pop3.
>
> A pearl of wisdom from the y2K newsgroups:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Y2K appears to be the Baby Boomers mid-life crisis, and it has the
> potential to be a dandy.
> -- Anonymnous --
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> B'ichela
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cryptoboy)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.windows.networking
Subject: Re: Home networking using phone lines
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 04:59:54 GMT
The best benefit to using the phone lines for networking (as far as I
can see at least) is that there are no wires exposed and running along
the floorboards. If that is the primary concern then you should do
that. It is alot cheaper to just get the (old, as you call it)
network cards, etc. You can buy a package that has everything you
need to get started (hub, NIC's, cat5 cable) for fairly cheap now,
significantly cheaper than using some of the phone systems you are
looking into. Another thing to look at is that if you only have 2
computers to hook up, you don't even need the hub, just buy 2 NIC's
and some UTP cable and you are good to go! There is no free solution
to what you want to do, unless you have a five finger discount or
something. Luck to you.
Cryptoboy
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 01:30:52 GMT, Vikas Agnihotri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Increasingly typical situation:
>
>More than 1 PC at home. How to connect them, share resources,
>peripherals, Internet connection, etc?
>
>Most of the info out there deals with (old?) technology like network
>cards, hubs, cables, etc.
>
>Seems like using existing phone wiring of the house is the way to go.
>Speed is a miserly 1 Mbps, but thats ok for most people.
>
>The Home Phone Networking Alliance (www.homepna.org) seems to be a
>balanced industry-wide effort to have some standards in this area.
>
>To get to the point... what exactly do I need to keep in mind when I
>build my system to accomodate for this kind of networking? Most products
>out there (Intel's Anypoint www.intel.com/anypoint) seem to use either
>the parallel port or a PCI slot to pop in a card on each PC in the
>network. Also, AnyPoint seems kinda steep...is there a cheaper (read
>free) solution out there that lets me connect PCs using phone wiring?
>Well, if it involves hardware, I guess it has to be $$.
>
>What about Linux? Is it at all possible to connect Linux-Linux or
>Linux-Windows machines using existing phone wiring? Can a Linux box
>print to a printer attached to a Windows machine? Can the Windows
>machine access the Linux's Internet connection? Where can I get more
>info, product reviews, etc?
>
>Would appreciate a discussion from the experienced "home network" pros
>out there.
>
>Thanks,
>Vikas
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: RH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NFS not Working on RH6.0
Date: 07 Jul 1999 00:40:10 PDT
I am having a problem on RH6.0 that looks common in this news group
but I have seen n answers that actually solve the issue. Please help.
I configure the exports file manually and using the control panel it
seems to be correct.
"/mnt/cdrom (ro,insecure)"
and when I try to mount the drive from another RH 6.0 box I get
permission denied.
Any help on this, its starting to get painful.
RH 1.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Jeacocke)
Subject: Re: fetchmail & multiple email addresses
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 22:35:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 04 Jul 1999 17:10:59 GMT, "Cliff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We do something similar by saving the to and from
>envelope header to a x-envelope-* header and then dropping it back into the
>mail flow to a specific (non-published) account.
Well I have had a carefull look at the headers on the emails that I
have recieved and it would seem that our ISP already includes an
X-Envelope-To header in the form
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Fetchmail picks it up from
>there and procmail running on the LAN recreates the envelope using the x
>headers.
Could you give some pointers as to how you might go about recreating
the envelope. The local MTA is qmail not sendmail
> Let me know if you'd like a copy of the forward script. I'll email you a
>generic copy that might get you started.
If I understand correctly I won't need this since the ISP already
include and X-Envelope-To header
TIA
Stewart
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
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?
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:50:33 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 6 Jul 1999 15:55:05 -0700,
Jason O'Rourke, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>Bob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Exactly! There were *two* regional wars in progress. Japanese invasion
>>of China and Germany vs Britian/France. How can this be considered a
>>WORLD war? Incidentally, a U.S. participation is *not* required for a
>>world war as is also *any single* nation.
>
>I think you should consider the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan
>before labeling these all regional conflicts. Germany also had a
>nonagression pact with Russia that was used by Stalin to prepare for war
>as quickly as possible. I believe, but am not certain, that the Axis were
>also in Africa well before the entrance of the United States into the
>melee. Lastly, Spain's civil war should be recalled.
While Stalin was certainly preparing for war, it was Germany who attacked on
22 June 1941
Yes, africa was a battle ground long before the direct US involvment in the
war.
Spain's civil war had little or nothing to do with WWII, save for giving the
Germans some training time. However, (to bring this back on topic:) Don't forget
the winter war from 1939 to early 1941 when the USSR invaded FINLAND and set
the stage for Linus to write linux (Tux's granddad was of course one of the
Suomi Ski troops in that conflict. :)
>
>How many countries/continents besides our's does it take to become a WORLD
>war? (and it could be argued that we were involved from early on with the
>leasing of ships)
well, given the roster of nations _not_ involved in WWI, it's curious what
constitutes a world war...
>
>
>--
>Jason O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jor.com
>'96 BMW r850R
>last dive: June 13th, Pescadero Wash Rocks (Carmel), 46 mins at 64ft max
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: clustering under linux?
Date: 6 Jul 1999 21:41:28 GMT
Hello,
I am working on setting up a cluster with pvm3.4 and I can not get it to work.
I do not have it setup with NFS like you do, but I instead have PVM installed on each
machine locally. PVM will run on each machine by itself, but I can not get them to
add any of the others as slaves. I have been using the add "node" command from the
pvm> prompt and what I get is: can't start pvmd. By looking at the /tmp/pvml file it
seems to me that it is looking for the files it needs in the wrong place. All of the
file
s are installed the same way on each node and each machine has ROOT_PVM set correctly
in .profile. Does anyone else have a problem like this? Any idea?
Thank,
Seth
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Schlager)
Subject: automatic dialup to ISP
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 06:14:57 GMT
Hello, group!
I want to setup my LINUX (Debian 2.1) that it would contact my ISP automatically
everytime I use an external IP Address.
So far, so good. I've tried 'diald', worked trough tons of howtos, readmes,
examples and what the hell else, but this won't work.
1st, diald is *NOT* connecting automatically to my ISP. When I want to ping to
an outside IP-address, simply *NOTHING* happens! At the highest debug-level,
nothing is written to the logfiles (diald.log, ppp.log)! Maybe there is
something wrong with my route-entries (???) This is the output of the "route"
command:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.6.1.97 * 255.255.255.255 UH 1 0 0 sl0
localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 2 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 1 lo
default * 0.0.0.0 U 1 0 15 sl0
2nd, I've read in one of the docu-files, that it is (almost?) impossible to use
diald, when my ISP assigns me a dynamic IP-address. Is it possible to use diald
in this environment?
I've tried diald V 0.16.5-3 and V 0.98.2-0.1
I hope, someone can help me.
Andreas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: How do I smbmount as user not root?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 08:13:33 GMT
I've got smbmount to work for mounting a drive from an NT machine. Now
how do I make this drive user mountable? I am using Suse 6.1 Linux.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Franck SCHNEIDER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printing from linux on a "for-window" printer
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 10:30:03 +0200
>
> You've received three replies so far that ignore your statement that this
> is a "win-only" printer.
Yes. And it's a win95 shared printer...
> If you're correct in this assertion, your only hope of getting this
> working is to set up some sort of interpreter on the Windows box in such
> a way that the Windows box will accept PostScript, PCL, or some other
> type of input and process that into the printer's native tongue. I know
> that the Windows version of Ghostscript has an option to print via the
> Windows printing system rather than directly to the printer, and if you
> could get that set up to accept network printing requests, you might
> stand a chance. I don't know if this is possible, though.
I think I've found a way :
1. On the window machine, I create a fake port (lpt3:)
2. I attach a redirector on lpt3: - Redmon
(http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/)
3. The redirector uses gsprint & ghoscript
(http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/gsprint.html) to print through the
windows printer driver.
4. I can make lpt3: a shared printer. It will appear as a Postscript
printer. A bit of setup on the linux box and it should be Ok.
I haven't tried anything yet; some pieces of software used are beta, but
It should work...
> The printer compatibility database at
> http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi is often quite
> helpful in determining whether a printer is Linux-compatible or not, but
> the Brother HL-820 isn't listed there, so I can't check your statement
> that yours is a Windows-only printer.
Thanx for this pointer and for your help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Jach)
Subject: Cyrus IMAP-Demon and install problems
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 08:25:25 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
I tried to install the newest version of Cyrus IMAP-Demo on my SUSE 6.0
system. And adter following the installation guide strictly it say while
doing a telnet to the imap port:
* BYE Fatal error: can't read mailboxes file
It does this when staring the imapd "by hand" to...
so what can i do?? Where can i look for further instructions???
Could someone plz help me ?
THX
Thomas
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From: "Jason Png" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: D-Link DFE-530TX NIC driver
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:35:23 +0800
you can get it from the d-link website
http://www.d-link.com/
i've downloaded the driver there.. it uses VIA RHINE.
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regards,
jason ...
criff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:fhgg3.12454$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: I am looking for any info on getting a driver or whatever is necessary to
: make my D-Link DFE-530TX adapter work on my linux box.
: Any info would be appreciated.
: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: DL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A simple one...
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 00:06:53 -0700
Frank Hahn wrote:
>
> About the best that I can suggest is to do a search of http://www.deja.com
> for the error in your log file. It looks to me like something is
> already using that port.
>
> If you installed an RPM file, you might try looking for an updated
> one. The last I checked, the most recent version was 2.0.4b.
>
> I think there is also an archive of previous posts to comp.protocol.smb
> at the Samba web site. It may be worthwhile to check and look through
> these previous posts for your error.
>
> You can also increase the amount of logging to your log files. There
> is a statement that can be added to the samba.conf file. I can't
> think of it right now.
>
Thak you for your response. It seems that my /etc/inetd file from
the previous Redhat 5.1 use of Samba was incorrect. I had included a
call to activate Samba which was changed in Redhat 6.0 (either that,
or I was doing it incorrectly <g>). When I commented out that code
in /etc/inetd and restarted SMB services, it came up without a
problem.
This seems to be typical of RedHat. They determine a way of
activating or implementing a particular service that is different
from everyone else and that seems to break RedHat implementations of
certain packages (the same thing happened when I implemented the K
Desktop - now the newer RedHat implementation won't install over my
KDE. Oh well, on to fixing KDE).
I want to thank everyone for trying to help. This is a
characteristic of Linux users over every other kind of OS user -
people who use Linux do try and help each other out.
DL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael C. Vergallen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: V35 How to read?
Date: 7 Jul 1999 06:32:10 GMT
On Tue, 06 Jul 1999 22:42:22 -0700, Dmitry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am doing some work with processing packets on the ethernet, and now I
>need to design tool to process packets on the
>V35 link.
>
>Does anyone know are such boards exist. To be inserted to
>the Linux machine and process the V35.
>
Check out the folowing site :
http://www.sangoma.com
They have a card that does just this.
Michael
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Bob Taylor")
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark?
Crossposted-To:
omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:44:58 -0700
In article <7lu1g9$ji0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason O'Rourke) writes:
> Bob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Exactly! There were *two* regional wars in progress. Japanese invasion
>>of China and Germany vs Britian/France. How can this be considered a
>>WORLD war? Incidentally, a U.S. participation is *not* required for a
>>world war as is also *any single* nation.
>
> I think you should consider the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan
> before labeling these all regional conflicts. Germany also had a
> nonagression pact with Russia that was used by Stalin to prepare for war
> as quickly as possible. I believe, but am not certain, that the Axis were
> also in Africa well before the entrance of the United States into the
> melee. Lastly, Spain's civil war should be recalled.
>
> How many countries/continents besides our's does it take to become a WORLD
> war? (and it could be argued that we were involved from early on with the
> leasing of ships)
Exactly my point! Just *what* defines a world war? (I am aware of the
axis alliance, the Spanish civil war etc. --- let's not forget Finland
and Russia either!)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.x and arp
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 08:35:50 GMT
> Try:
>
> echo -n 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/proxy_arp
> Or replace "all" with the appropriate interface. There's a one-line
> reference to this in linux/Documentation/proc.txt from the 2.2.x kernel
> source tree.
This does not work. I did find that reference, and I did try it. The
problem is putting the published ARP entry into the ARP table in the
first place. Enabling proxy_arp will help, but only in addition with
putting entries to proxy in the ARP table!
(postscript: As far as I can tell, and I've thought about this one a
lot, PROXY and PUBLISH are the same. They have the same uses, same
meaning. If you wish to proxy arp for an IP address, you must publish
the arp entry; if you publish an arp entry, you *are* proxy'ing for that
IP address. I'm specifically talking about just PUBLISH entries, not
normal permenant entries)
I've been hacking arp.c in the net/ipv4 directory for two nights now.
I am convinced that proxy arp can *never* work. I'll provide snips from
2.3.9 to prove this. If you'd like to skip the rigerous proof, I'll
explain it with footnotes to the code below.
In arp_req_set(), there is basically two conditions; publish ARP
entries (actually requests to add entries), and everyone else [1]. The
publish ARP entries' netmask is checked to make sure it's either 0 or
all 1's [2], then the proper interface is found for the ARP entry if it
was not specified when we called arp_req_set() [3].
This is where things get f*cked up. If the mask is not zero, we try
to add the arp entry using pneigh_lookup() [4]. I don't understand this
process (yet), so I won't elaborate. If we are successful, we return
success, otherwise, we return error [5].
However, if the mask is zero, we continue and set the appropriate
interface to allow proxy_arp [6].
This is totally screwed up (IMHO). If we set a proxy arp entry for
an interface, we should enable proxy arp. Enabling proxy arp, but not
adding an publish/proxy entry, when the netmask is 0 is confusing.
Adding an publish/proxy arp entry without enabling proxy arp is just
downright evil. Someone tell me if I'm missing something.
And the call to add the proxy/publish arp entry doesn't work anyway.
I'm currently working on fixing this. I'll probibly get rid of all the
netmask mess (since the kernel/usertools don't support it officially
anyway) to simplify matters.
This will probibly take me a few days. Bear with me, and if you have a
fix, please send it to me. My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks.
Steve
( All references to /usr/src/linux/net/ipv4/arp.c )
[1]
747: int arp_req_set(struct arpreq *r, struct device * dev)
753: if (r->arp_flags&ATF_PUBL) {
...
775: return -ENXIO;
776: }
[2]
755: if (mask && mask != 0xFFFFFFFF)
756: return -EINVAL;
[3]
757: if (!dev && (r->arp_flags & ATF_COM)) {
758: dev = dev_getbyhwaddr(r->arp_ha.sa_family,
r->arp_ha.sa_data);
759: if (!dev)
760: return -ENODEV;
761: }
[4]
762: if (mask) {
763: if (pneigh_lookup(&arp_tbl, &ip, dev, 1) == NULL)
[5]
764: return -ENOBUFS;
765: return 0;
766: }
[6]
767: if (dev == NULL) {
768: return 0;
769: }
770: if (dev->ip_ptr) {
771: ((struct in_device*)dev->ip_ptr)->cnf.proxy_arp = 1;
772: return 0;
773: }
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From: "Doug Floer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dhcpd.conf sample file wanted
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 22:14:42 -0700
Can anyone out there save me a great deal of trouble and provide me with a
sample dhcpd.conf file for RedHat 5.1? I have simple requirements and need
only to assign default gateway, IP address, and subnet mask to a few hosts
on a small private class C subnet.
Thanks for your help,
Doug
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