Linux-Networking Digest #849, Volume #11 Sat, 10 Jul 99 14:13:43 EDT
Contents:
Re: Networking for Dummies (Chris Harshman)
Re: Wireless LAN 11Mbps Where/When/Etc. ("Andrey Smirnov")
local ppp no longer working with kernel 2.2.x ("Eric G. Stern")
Re: Linux modem frame errors ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Automating FTP sessions in Linux...?....? ("Andrey Smirnov")
Re: NFS problem between Linux & AIX (Norman Levin)
need ipmasquerading and firewall...can someone post their network settings for
kernel compile (sparks)
Re: tcpdump help (Craig Donahue)
Re: Serious Sendmail Hell (Dave Cotterill)
Re: ppp/route-trouble with SuSE 6.1 ?? (Michael Oetjen)
Re: Can't use network services but can ping. ("Andrey Smirnov")
Re: Transparent printing thru telnet? ("Andrey Smirnov")
Re: REMOTEHOST variable ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Apache ("Ed Willoughby")
DHCP and host name resolution ("Whiplash!!!")
Re: IPX and NCP error -- Newbie help. ("Donald E. Stidwell")
ppp connection using xisp or wvdial - help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux modem frame errors ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: local ppp no longer working with kernel 2.2.x (Clifford Kite)
pppd error messages during connection - help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Wake up on lan (Paul Stehlin)
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From: Chris Harshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Networking for Dummies
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 11:42:45 -0500
What do you need RAS for? To gain access to the LAN?
PPP + TCP/IP + Samba works about as well as RAS does.
A few more specifics on your situation and we'll be
able to help a lot more.
- chris
Juan Carlos wrote:
>
> After a weekend of getting my Win 98 connect to linux using ethernet, my
> employer now tells me I must use RAS on Windows to keep me captive 24 hours
> a day. I know this is not a linux-specific question, but can this co-exist
> with my linux setup, or should I tell my boss to take a hike? Please help
> me keep my job.
--
chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------
"If there is hope," I said, quoting Orwell, "it lies in the proles."
The Billionaire pressed his fingertips together, considering. "Nah,"
he said, finally, and flipped The Switch.
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From: "Andrey Smirnov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wireless LAN 11Mbps Where/When/Etc.
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:38:58 -0700
Hello,
I have setup a wireless LAN at work using units that don't care about OS.
They are connected via regular Ethernet cable to the NIC in the machine,
therefore you don't have to worry about drivers, etc.
Check out http://www.proxim.com/products/mobility/rl2/7920.shtml this unit
works at 2MB/sec
And http://www.radiolan.com/scripts/product2.cfm?id=8 this unit works at
10MB/sec
As far as having many access points I don't think you need to worry about
it, unless you have huge space to cover.
Good luck!
Binesh Bannerjee wrote in message ...
>Hey guys...
> I'm thinking of setting up a wireless LAN in my house, and
>wondering what equipment I'll need. Here's what I _think_ I want, but
>I'm not sure if I'm understanding what I read correctly...
>
> I _think_ I need a couple of access points to cover as much area
>I need, and as many pcmcia wireless lan cards as I have PC's... In reading
>the info on www.waveaccess.com, I think it implies not all access points
>support "roaming"... Also, I read somewhere that 11 Mpbs wireless LAN
>cards are coming, when where how soon before supported by Linux etc?
>
> The access points are just bridges from the ethernet to the
>radio lan right?
>
> Well, basically, I'm clueless about all this, and, I'd like
>as much info on the subject as possible...
>
>Thanks in advance...
>Binesh Bannerjee
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From: "Eric G. Stern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: local ppp no longer working with kernel 2.2.x
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 10:54:28 -0500
Hi,
I've had a ppp connections through a null modem cable between my linux
since
kernels 2.0.28 through 2.0.36. When I tried to upgrade to the 2.2.x
series
of kernels I can't get the ppp link to come up. Looking at logs on both
sides, it appears that the connection is established, but 11 seconds
later
the Amiga sends a TermReq to the linux box and closes it's end of the
ppp
link. There's nothing obvious in the log about the Amiga requesting any
services or options in between that would make it want to terminate.
The ppp
link still works on the external modem to my ISP.
I haven't changed the Amiga end and the Linux end still works
with kernel 2.0.36. What changed?
Thanks,
Eric Stern
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux modem frame errors
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 15:14:56 GMT
In article <7m4ft2$q7s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rob van der Putten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Yes, I did. I have hardware flow control enabled in the
/etc/ppp/options
> > file, since i have "crtscts" in the file.
>
> Did you check the modem?
What do you mean by "Check the modem"?
The modem works properly at 115200 baud using a piece of hardware known
as the "WebRamp". So it cannot be the modem's fault. I only have these
frame errors when I connect it to the Linux box.
>
> Regards,
> Rob
>
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From: "Andrey Smirnov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Automating FTP sessions in Linux...?....?
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 09:10:33 -0700
You can create a file with answers and run it with redirect sign:
script.txt
user username password
get test.txt
bye
command line
ftp -n ftp.somedomain.com < script.txt
In my example the script will login as 'username' and 'password' and get
remote file test.txt
Good luck!
Michael Smith wrote in message ...
>Is there a way in Linux to automate a ftp session?
>
>In <bad word> NT, you can issue 'ftp -s xxxx.txt ftp.myserver.com', where
>xxxx.txt is a 'ftp script'.
>
>i.e.
>
>REM ftp script: xxxx.txt
>user me
>pass mypass
>cd /pub/coolstuff
>binary
>lcd dwnload
>get coolthing.exe
>close
>REM end of xxx.txt
>
>'man ftp' doesn't mention a *script*
>
>Thanks.
>
>Michael
>
>
>
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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 17:30:08 -0500
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: NFS problem between Linux & AIX
>From another append, following may help:
> Hello,
> I cannot mount a nfs filesystem from a linux box with 4.3.2.0. I get
> the error vmount: operation not permitted.
> The linux box (kernel 2.2.1-ac7) say: kernel: nfsd: request from
> insecure port (c0640219:32797).
> With 4.1.5 it works
> Any ideas?
>
> Christian
This should be a FAQ. You need the new nfso option:
nfso -o nfs_use_reserved_ports=1
This can be issued ad hoc, and put into /etc/rc.nfs to make it persist.
Regards, Ian
--
--
Norman Levin
vm/dynAmIX inc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sparks)
Subject: need ipmasquerading and firewall...can someone post their network settings
for kernel compile
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 15:48:31 GMT
I need to set up ip masquerading and a firewall.
I am using redhat 6.0 and I need to know what I need
to turn on and what needs to remain off in the kernel
can someone post a list of what i need to set in the
kernel before I compile it.
thanks
jerry
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From: Craig Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tcpdump help
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:56:55 GMT
It would help if you described or included a sample of the incoming packets.
thebrownhighlander wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a nice network setup using IP masq + @home. Now I am just
> wondering if it is normal to get a lot of packets from @home to the modem
> or whatever.
>
> when I do tcpdump -i eth1 there seems to be a lot of packets that are
> sent to me--even when the network is idle.
>
> i don't believe that I have had this problem before but I was just
> curious.
>
> thanks
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From: Dave Cotterill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serious Sendmail Hell
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 15:30:56 GMT
Hi,
Thanks for the help but it wasn't actually the aliases files at all. The
reason was due to the service.switch file. For some reason it had got
corrupted and was playing havoc with any of the sendmail utilities.
Anyway your help was greatly appreciated.
Dave
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From: Michael Oetjen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppp/route-trouble with SuSE 6.1 ??
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 15:30:57 GMT
Chris Mahmood wrote:
>
> did you set the IP address(s) of the DNS in rc.config? I find it
> easier than messing with the Yast thing.
> -ckm
as you can see from my logs: the IP address(s) are given temporarily from
kppp
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From: "Andrey Smirnov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Can't use network services but can ping.
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 09:13:07 -0700
Hello,
Try adding IP address of machine that you are telneting from to the
/etc/hosts file on the Linux box.
Good luck!
Phillipson Family wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I've just installed RedHat5.0 on a 486, which I planned to leave in a
corner
>and use by telnetting in to it. However this isn't working. I can open a
>telnet connection but no login prompt is displayed. If I login on it's
>keyboard and use ps as root I can see it is spawning tty things for the
>connection attempts, but they aren't working. ping works, I left it running
>for ages to see if the wires were unreliable, but it seems to work quite
>well.
>I ran ifconfig, the card seems setup OK, although it cliams 0 TX errors,
and
>I'd of thought there would be at least some (there were 40 RX errors). I
>don't know if thats significant.
>
>I would be very grateful for any help, even if it's just a new direction to
>look at the problem from, because I'm completely stumped.
>
>Thankyou,
>Graeme Phillipson.
>
>
>
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From: "Andrey Smirnov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Transparent printing thru telnet?
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 09:17:44 -0700
Hello,
On the SCO box create a remote printer and point it to the RH's local
printer, then for telnet users export the following variable via .profile or
manually: LPDEST=remoteprintername
Good luck!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <7m6t35$1ah$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello.
>
>I have been able to make transparent printing work thru xterm/telnet as
>follows:
>
>The client machine is RH6.0 with X windows. A dot matrix printer is
attached
>to this machine and defined in lpd. I login to another machine (SCO Unix)
on
>the local ethernet using the command: xterm -xrm
'*printerAutoClose:true' -e
>telnet scoboxname Now whenever the sco application running in telnet sends
>media copy (mc) esc seq, it prints fine.
>
>Here is the question: How do we make the transparent printing work on linux
>machine where X is not installed? Any ideas?
>
>It seems printing is working due to xterm and not telnet. Is there a telnet
>work-alike with this feature?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>-Dubal
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: REMOTEHOST variable
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 14:39:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Knott) writes:
>Slackware v2.0.35 has an environment variable called REMOTEHOST, which
>does not seem to be in Redhat. It contains the host name or IP
>address of the remote system that has opened a telnet session. Does
>anyone know how/where this variable is created?
Yupp. It's not slackwares variable, it's a feature of the tcsh:
REMOTEHOST (+)
The host from which the user has logged in
remotely, if this is the case and the shell is
able to determine it. Set only if the shell was so
compiled; see the version shell variable.
Use tcsh as login shell and you'll get it back ;-)
HTH,
Uli
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From: "Ed Willoughby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Apache
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:01:57 -0400
HELP!!!! my server just stopped working during a reboot...
I get the following message
sqlint: DBROOT must be set !!!
I haven't a clue... I cannot find any where to disable or set this in the
apache httpd.conf file or for that matter any where else..
This just started. I have had the system up for several weeks. now the httpd
will not run
Please help!!!!
ED
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From: "Whiplash!!!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DHCP and host name resolution
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:14:39 +0000
This may be a dumb question but I'm real new to this so here goes...
I just setup a Linux DHCP server. I also set up several linux clients to
pull addresses from that server. After booting the linux clients, I run
into several problems, I cannot do a 'rsh servername' anymore and Gnome
complains that I need to make a new entry in hosts.
I assume this is because I had an entry in hosts that assigned my
hostname and others to particular IP addresses. so I removed the hosts
file and of course got the same errors.
My question: When using DHCP, how do you assign the hostname to the new
IP on the fly? More importantly, how do other computers find you by your
hostname when your IP is constantly changing? I believe that windows
uses broadcasts. Can Linux be configured to do the same?
Thanks
D
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From: "Donald E. Stidwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: IPX and NCP error -- Newbie help.
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 15:29:42 GMT
James McFall wrote:
> I am having the same problem. Although I'm not as confident that I have IPX
> set up properly.
> But, no, I can't ncpmount at all (if I'm doing it right).
>
I'm using Mandrake, but the principle should be the same for RH since Mandrake
is RH based. Configuring IPX is as simples as adding an interface:
ipx_interface add -p eth0 802.3 (or 802.2).
Once that's done, you can ncpmount your server(s) where you wish. Since I
mount my server as myself, I use ncpmount -S huey -U dstidwe ~/huey.
That's pretty much all there is to it.
If you're not going to mount as root, make ncpmount and ncpumount suid.
Don
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ppp connection using xisp or wvdial - help
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:09:46 GMT
I'm running redhat 5.1 and I have been trying to connect to the net
using xisp and wvdial. Both give errors which I couldn't solve I need
help.
1. xisp disconnects after a few seconds with messages pppd dies
///
2. When I rum wvdial, It gives me error messages in /var/log/messages
directory : a. localhost pppd[582]failed to open /dev/ttyS1:
input/output error. and
b. localhost pppd[582] This system lacks kernel support for ppp.
This could be because the ppp kernel is not loaded or because the
kernel is not configured for ppp.
I have tried everything but no luck. I need help....
Mohamed Yusuf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux modem frame errors
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 15:19:06 GMT
In article <7m3han$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
kite@NoSpam.% inetport.com (Clifford Kite) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> : In article <7m34lo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> : kite@NoSpam.% inetport.com (Clifford Kite) wrote:
>
> : > BTW you may need a better UART than a 16550A when you get the full
> : > 128k ISDN going. I don't know what the UARTs for the Cyber board
are
> : > though, maybe they _are_ better.
>
> : The programming documentation says that the UART is a 16C550.
>
> OK there are only two other things I can come up with that might be
> germane.
>
> The 16C550 uart might truly be a 16550 uart and so is buggy (the 16550
> was rapidly replaced by the 16550A). Or it might be a 16550A uart and
> because the documentation isn't precise you configured it as a 16550
> rather than a 16550A.
This is a Cyber I/O PCI board. SetSerial detected a 16550A Uart. So it
isn't either of those.
> The other thing that comes to mind is a clouded memory of a post that
> solved some problem by turning off pppd Van Jacobson compression with
> the option novj. In the same vein it might be worthwhile to try
turning
> off Compression Control Protocol with the option noccp. VJ
compression
> is distinct from CCP compression.
>
> : But I'm binding together 2 56K channels, not 2 64K channels.
>
> I guess I don't know ISDN very well, I thought you got 144k and could
> use 128k for data with the other 16k a control channel.
>
> --
> Clifford Kite <kite@inet% port.com> Not a guru.
(tm)
> /* Those who can't write, write manuals. */
>
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: local ppp no longer working with kernel 2.2.x
Date: 10 Jul 1999 11:12:57 -0500
Eric G. Stern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I haven't changed the Amiga end and the Linux end still works
: with kernel 2.0.36. What changed?
Software upgrades are sometimes necessary when the kernel changes.
This is particularly true when the change is to a kernel in a new series.
The linux/Documentation/Changes file in the kernel source tree is *must*
reading in that case.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: pppd error messages during connection - help
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:06:40 GMT
I'm running redhat 5.1 and I have been trying to connect to the net
using xisp and wvdial. Both give errors which I couldn't solve I need
help.
1. xisp disconnects after a few seconds with messages pppd dies
///
2. When I rum wvdial, It gives me error messages in /var/log/messages
directory : a. localhost pppd[582]failed to open /dev/ttyS1:
input/output error. and
b. localhost pppd[582] This system lacks kernel support for ppp.
This could be because the ppp kernel is not loaded or because the
kernel is not configured for ppp.
I have tried everything but no luck. I need help....
Mohamed Yusuf
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From: Paul Stehlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Wake up on lan
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 17:30:56 GMT
How can I remote-boot a computer on my network. I've read a lot about the
theory on several articles, but, is there a small utility that will let
you type in a mac address and boot the corresponding PC? Thanks
Paul
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