Linux-Networking Digest #874, Volume #11 Mon, 12 Jul 99 18:13:33 EDT
Contents:
Scheduled Dial-up PPP occasionally fails ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: need help using Linux as router at job!!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ProFTPD (David Pollack)
ADSL and dhcpcd (Mugur)
ypserv: too many children (Johannes Nix)
Re: PPP: Got dynamic IP, no ping ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
need help using Linux as router at job!!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HELP: DOS WORKSTATION ACCESS TO LINUX SERVER (Dave Brown)
Net-booting 3com cs/2000, is btp/scp an option?
ypserv: too many children (Johannes Nix)
Re: Netscape, RH 6.0 and pppd ("Holger van Koll")
Re: IPCHAINS problem (Monte Phillips)
Re: limiting web access internally? ("Holger van Koll")
Re: ip accounting in redhat 6 ("Holger van Koll")
Re: rt18139 ethernet ("Daniel Verlouw")
Re: SMB, Win98 ("Holger van Koll")
Re: newbie needs help starting over setting up network/IP masq ("Holger van Koll")
Re: proftpd error 421 ("Holger van Koll")
Re: Weird NFS problems with RH 6.0 ("Dr. Ram Samudrala")
SMB mount of NT filesystem shows wildly wrong dates (Mark Warren)
Curious problem with networking (Scott Robson)
Re: IPCHAINS problem (Andrew M)
embedded linux in a specific application... (William Ryder)
Re: Mac and Linux on TCP/IP (James Campbell Andrew)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.ppp
Subject: Scheduled Dial-up PPP occasionally fails
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:12:16 GMT
I have a Redhat 5.2 system that regularly connects via cron/PPP.
IBM Thinkpad 385DX Laptop.
However, the US Robotics modem and Linux occasionally gets in a
strange state where the system never sees the modem. I watch the logs,
and it says that it's dialing, but there is no dialtone. It thinks
it's dialing, but obviously it never connects.
If I run minicom at this time, I can't talk to the modem.
I type AT<return> and I do not get an "OK."
In fact, the cursor is at the beginning of the AT initialization
line, instead of the beginning of the next line.
Also, the lights on the modem behave differently. I think the Request to
Send light turns on, and stays there.
When this problem happens, I tried
1) Waiting for the PPP discipline to unregister
2) Power cycle the modem
3) Reboot the Linux box
This SOMETIMES works, but recently I've been trying everything, and
finally I get it working again. Perhaps I have a bad Serial cable?
Also, if I close the lid on the Laptop, the modem disconnects.
This is not something that happened before, but it may be a different
problem. It seems to work when I go into the linux control panel
and start the session that way.
Anyone have any suggestions on what I should check? Thanks!!!!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: need help using Linux as router at job!!!!
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:22:18 GMT
SORRY! forgot to mention:
our network is NT; we are using TCP/IP; will install redhat6.0 on a IBM
300GL PII 400 w/ 128M; using SMC etherPower2 cards;Our IP network is
10.*.*.*; vendor's ip is something or other(may have sub-network with
10.*.*.* also);
Again sorry and thanks,
E.
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From: David Pollack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ProFTPD
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 12:26:47 -0700
Well, do you have another ftp server running on inet or something?
I have proftpd running on RH6 and it works fine.
Daniel Verlouw wrote:
>
> Leimaster wrote in message <7mcav4$9cn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >> I'm having some troubles with ProFTPd 1.2.0pre1-2 (Debian 2.1, kernel
> >> 2.2.10). I can't read or write from/to any directory besides /tmp. I can
> >> switch to other directories and ask for a directory listing (ls).
> Changing
> >> the user and group under which proftpd normally runs, to root/root,
> >doesn't
> >> help either. Am I missing something basic here or what?
>
> >
> >Try CHMOD
> >Bye
>
> Well, I'm sure that's ok, because I can't even read/write to a user's
> homedir (logged in as that user). ProFTPd keeps on saying 'permission
> denied'. Everything else on the system works fine, so the problem is not
> with wrong file permissions.
>
> Daniel.
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From: Mugur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ADSL and dhcpcd
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:20:03 -0400
Anyone got Caldera 2.2 (kernel 2.2.5) working with ADSL?
It seems that the dhcp client (ver 1.3.17) is unable to get the IP
address (I have though both Rx and Tx packets!). Moreover, it's shutting
down the eth0
card (3Com509, correctly installed).
>From what I read in other NGs, it seems that I'm missing some files (I
wander why they were not created when I first choose the option DHCP?!).
I need to find out what files are needed/involved in the dhcp process.
Pls help, someone!
Mugur
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From: Johannes Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ypserv: too many children
Date: 12 Jul 1999 22:01:36 +0200
Hi,
I get once in a week this error message:
Jun 9 19:56:25 helios ypserv[131]: WARNING: ypserv has to many running children
Jun 9 19:56:25 helios last message repeated 6 times
Jun 9 19:57:30 helios last message repeated 2 times
This means that there will be as much as 26 ypserv processes, when
normally one is sufficient. The machine will be then trashing and
producing timeouts.
This happens with an single processor intel486/2.2.5 Kernel and also
with an dual processor / Pentium II / 2.2.5 Kernel, Both SuSE 6.1
Distribution.
Many thanks for any hints. Please include me in the CC also !
Johannes Nix
==================================================
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/~jnix
Arbeitsgruppe Medizinische Physik
Universit�t Oldenburg
==================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PPP: Got dynamic IP, no ping
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:40:45 GMT
I fixed it over the weekend. My ISP's IP wasn't responding to ping.
But I've got PPP and IP masquerade working just fine, now.
Go figure.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Monte Phillips) wrote:
> You say you can see your IP address after connect. Does that mean you
> have preset the IP address? As in static? If so that may be your
> problem almost all ISP's on normal modem accounts are dynamic.
>
> That would appear to explain the connection but packet failure. Your
> ISP wouldn't recognize that IP address you set and would send packets
> to the IP that it sent you, result...conection, but no communication.
>
> ...maybe<G>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I've been attempting to make a PPP connection to my ISP via my new
> >Linux box. (Windows can connect to it just fine using dial-up
> >networking, but I'm sick of Windows.) The kernel's been recompiled,
> >the correct modules have been loaded, and it seems that it works
> >right. The ISP authenticates and even returns its own IP address and
> >my new dynamic IP. I've sent the daemon.* and kern.* messages
> >to /var/log/daemon and looked at them--it seems that the PPP
connection
> >is being established because the kernel is reporting what looks like
> >the appropriate garbage ("~y}#.!}!}!} }8}!}", etc.).
> >
> >But I can't ping!
> >
> >ifconfig says that I have two connections--the loopback and the PPP.
> >It lists my IP address and that of the ISP (and 6-8 packets sent and
> >received, so I know that it HAS been working), but, when I try to
ping
> >the ISP's IP (I'm not bothering with DNS just yet), I get nothing at
> >all--it just seems to freeze until I press Ctrl-C. Then I check
> >ifconfig, and it says all those packets were sent, but none were
> >received.
> >
> >I know the connection is still up because I can pick up the phone and
> >hear the carrier. I think I must be missing some vital, simple
thing,
> >but (since I'm new at this Linux thing) I have no idea what it is.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: need help using Linux as router at job!!!!
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:08:43 GMT
We have a incoming T1 to a CSU/DSU to a cisco 2500 router. My impression
was that the vendor would setup the port connecting to our side with our
ip address and all would be well. He says I need a router or firewall to
do translation because he also is using our network address (10.*.*.*).
I would like to setup a Linux machine to do the router/firewall role. I
assume I will need 2 network cards and will need to run ip_masquerading.
I also assume I will place this machine between the vendor router and
our hub to allow 'my' users access to this line.
Where can I get more information of this type of senario. This is my
first attempt at sneaking Linux into a critical position at the company.
And I want to make it Look GOOD.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Eddie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: HELP: DOS WORKSTATION ACCESS TO LINUX SERVER
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 Jul 99 20:00:08 GMT
In article <7m9hpt$2pu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, x wrote:
>Hi,
>
> Who can tell me: how to do dos workstation can access to linux server.
What kind of "dos workstation" and what kind of access do you want?
Assuming they're on a network, on DOS/Win, you could use trumpet
winsock and any of the winsock-compatible applications. If it's
a text-based machine, there's NCSA telnet. There have been DOS
Xservers around, but I don't know if you could still find one.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Net-booting 3com cs/2000, is btp/scp an option?
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:08:51 -0600
I've got an ancient 3com cs/2000 (actually, it's a data general, but I
think it's identical to the 3com) terminal server that needs to boot off
an image on the network. I don't think it supports bootp/rarp/tftp like
later models do, it mentions BTP or SCP as options from a 3com boot
server (ncs). Does anyone happen to know if there's any implimentation of
these boot protocols for these equipment available for linux? Thanx!
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From: Johannes Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ypserv: too many children
Date: 12 Jul 1999 22:13:28 +0200
Hi,
I get once in a week this error message:
Jun 9 19:56:25 helios ypserv[131]: WARNING: ypserv has to many running children
Jun 9 19:56:25 helios last message repeated 6 times
Jun 9 19:57:30 helios last message repeated 2 times
This means that there will be as much as 26 ypserv processes, when
normally one is sufficient. The machine will be then trashing and
producing timeouts.
This happens with an single processor intel486/2.2.5 Kernel and also
with an dual processor / Pentium II / 2.2.5 Kernel, Both SuSE 6.1
Distribution.
Many thanks for any hints. Please include me in the CC also !
Johannes Nix
==================================================
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/~jnix
Arbeitsgruppe Medizinische Physik
Universit�t Oldenburg
==================================================
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From: "Holger van Koll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Netscape, RH 6.0 and pppd
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:58:13 +0200
Dr. G schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have tried to set up a ppp-on script to no avail, even after reading
>several HOWTO's. Do you have any suggestions?
>
>When I use the following script from a command prompt it dials and
>connects.
>
>/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 57600 noauth debug user <username> connect
>"/usr/sbin/chat -v ' ' AT OK ATD6446703 CONNECT '\d\c' "
>
>(Id I change the speed to 115200, it doesn't work at all)
>
>If I put this script in the file "ppp-on" there is no response.
>
>I know I'm missing sometrhing very basic here.
How can ppp be up if pppd was not started?
>Any help wouild be
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Darrell
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Monte Phillips)
Subject: Re: IPCHAINS problem
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:29:01 GMT
The ftp port error are solved this way
insmod ip_masq_ftp
What you are doing, of course, is inserting the precompiled
ip_masq_ftp module. You can recompile kernel and include this module
if the command line method works.
g'Luk
Andrew Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>After several hours of going crazy over the ipchains documentation, I
>finally found the necessary example to get
>my RH6.0 box working as an internet router on my home LAN (other
>machines can access the internet through
>the RedHat box's modem PPP link.)
>This is the script I'm using:
============================================================================================
>#!/bin/sh
>
>#IP FORWARDING SCRIPT
>
>/usr/sbin/diald
>
>/sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY
>/sbin/ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 10.1.0.0/16 -d 0/0
>/sbin/ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ
>echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
====================================================================================
>It (almost) works perfectly. All my other machines
>(RedHat, Slackware, WinNT) can do ping, tracert,
>access the web, send mail, and telnet to machines on the
>net. The only thing that doesn't work is FTP.
>I can establish an FTP connection on any of the systems
>that aren't directly connected to the net (have the RH box
>as the default gateway), and login, but when I try to run
>a commanc such as 'ls', ftp prints
>'200 PORT command successful' and just sits there.
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From: "Holger van Koll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: limiting web access internally?
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:53:24 +0200
brian schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello all!
> I have a little problem. We havea user that has completely eaten all
>the bandwidth here at work and need to find a way to schedule their
>packets at a later timethan other users. In effect this would "nice" the
>other users packets of the bandwidth eater.....Any suggestions on how to
>do this? TIA!
> Brian
>Gilman
>
>InterScience Inc.
>
read the kernel docs about traffic shaper
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From: "Holger van Koll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ip accounting in redhat 6
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:49:09 +0200
Peter Gradwell schrieb in Nachricht ...
>Hi,
>
>I'm using redhat 6, kernel 2.2.5-15
>
>When using Kernel 2.0, we used to use commands such as those listed in the
>NET-3-HOWTO to monitor network traffic across our ethernet card.
>
>e.g.
>
>ipfwadm -A in -a -P tcp -D 0/0
>ipfwadm -A out -a -P tcp -D 0/0
I dont know ipfwadm, but if you like to count packets going in / out :
ipchains -A input -d 0/0
ipchains -A output -d 0/0
>
>
>and then
>ipfwadm -A -l -n
>
use ipchains -nvL
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From: "Daniel Verlouw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rt18139 ethernet
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:06:22 +0200
Jeff Holden wrote in message <7md6s7$lf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Turn on:
>>
>>Code maturity level options -> Prompt for development and/or incomplete
>>code/drivers
>>
>>and the driver will show up.
>Could you tell me where this option is? Is it in linux config? Any
>response would be much appreciated.
No, you'll have to turn it on in the kernel. Type 'make menuconfig' or 'make
xconfig' in the directory where you keep your kernel-sources.
Daniel.
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From: "Holger van Koll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMB, Win98
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 23:07:12 +0200
only tcp/ip is supported
VBF-Ratingen GmbH schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>What kind of protocol (TCP/IP, IPX..) do I have to use (under WIn98)to
>get Samba working properly
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From: "Holger van Koll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie needs help starting over setting up network/IP masq
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 23:01:10 +0200
bjack schrieb in Nachricht <37896f9a.15210979@news>...
>
>Ok I'm going to nuke everything and reinstall RH6.0.
>
>Here's my stats:
>dual ne2000 NICs
>server private IP: 10.0.0.1 eth0
>server public IP: 24.x.x.x eth1
>
>i had added these lines to my rc.local file:
>ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 10.0.0.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0
>ipchains -P forward DENY
>ipchains -P forward masquerade
>echo 1> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
>the line 'ipchains -P forward masquerade' returned a generic error
>message.
try MASQ instead of masquerade.
but why do you set your policy 2 times? you will override the first one.
>
>need to know how to set up *everything*!!!
so far everything is fine. what does not work?
>
>and... am i supposed to recompile my kernel to handle dual NICs better
>or something??
>
I (!) prefer to compile both modules in. But you cant modify then which will
be eth0 and what will be eth1 (you would have to edit Space.c)
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From: "Holger van Koll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: proftpd error 421
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 23:03:17 +0200
Lance Levsen schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Jonathan X Peers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>> oak:/etc # ftp localhost
>> Connected to localhost.
>> 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
>> ftp>
>>
>>
>> can anyone please point me in the right direction or tell me what i have
>> not done.
>>
yes, /var/log/messages
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From: "Dr. Ram Samudrala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Weird NFS problems with RH 6.0
Date: 12 Jul 1999 21:11:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the all responses. I am explicitly exporting all the
filesystems for now.
In linux.redhat John Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Welcome to the land of kernel space NFS, where men are men and
>the kernels are more top-heavy than usual ;-).
(: The problem was related to having an entry in the exports file
which wasn't a mountpoint on the local system (an ugly kludge I was
thinking of to have the same exports file across a total of about 40
machines).
In any case, this behaviour is interesting because I can explicitly
kill all the relevant processes myself and restart NFS and it works
fine.
--Ram
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From: Mark Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SMB mount of NT filesystem shows wildly wrong dates
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:23:34 -0400
Using RedHat 6.0, I have smbmounted a NT4.0-sp4 filesystem, and the file
dates displayed on the Linux side
are widly wrong, anywhere from Nov. 11, 1914 up to April 2011 in one
directory.
Initially, when I looked at the same directory locally (using Windows
Explorer) all the dates looked fine, so I concluded smbfs was just
reading the info wrong.
Later, I found that after doing a number of read operations on the
mounted filesystem (mostly done by some massive "diff -r" and "find .
-whatever" commands), the *LOCAL* versions of the dates came into sync
with the wildly wrong ones.
So, I am left with an NT filesystem whose dates are completely hosed
(but file data content is OK).
Anyone know what is happening? Any fixes available?
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From: Scott Robson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Curious problem with networking
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:56:28 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Everyone
I recently help setup redhat 6.0 on a friends computer and Im now trying
to network it at my university. I can ping machines within the
university but not outside. I think this may be because I do not have a
DNS entry for the computer (yet) tho i do have an IP number of course.
My real problem is tho, the netcfg program insists I give a host name
for the network connection to work. I have been making up names. With a
made up name I can ping inside the building, not outside, but without a
name, well it just wont let me not put a name. Any ideas what is going
on? Most computers here (macs and pc's) dont have names bound to ip
numbers and they manage to talk outside the building fine.
Please email replies
Thanx in Advance
Scott
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From: Andrew M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IPCHAINS problem
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:24:47 -0400
Thanks for the help. Everything works great now.
Monte Phillips wrote:
> The ftp port error are solved this way
>
> insmod ip_masq_ftp
>
> What you are doing, of course, is inserting the precompiled
> ip_masq_ftp module. You can recompile kernel and include this module
> if the command line method works.
>
> g'Luk
>
> Andrew Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >After several hours of going crazy over the ipchains documentation, I
> >finally found the necessary example to get
> >my RH6.0 box working as an internet router on my home LAN (other
> >machines can access the internet through
> >the RedHat box's modem PPP link.)
> >This is the script I'm using:
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >#!/bin/sh
> >
> >#IP FORWARDING SCRIPT
> >
> >/usr/sbin/diald
> >
> >/sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY
> >/sbin/ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 10.1.0.0/16 -d 0/0
> >/sbin/ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ
> >echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >It (almost) works perfectly. All my other machines
> >(RedHat, Slackware, WinNT) can do ping, tracert,
> >access the web, send mail, and telnet to machines on the
> >net. The only thing that doesn't work is FTP.
> >I can establish an FTP connection on any of the systems
> >that aren't directly connected to the net (have the RH box
> >as the default gateway), and login, but when I try to run
> >a commanc such as 'ls', ftp prints
> >'200 PORT command successful' and just sits there.
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From: William Ryder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: embedded linux in a specific application...
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:26:26 -0400
First, thanks to all those who responded to my question about I2O
wrappers in a Linux RTOS environment. We've kind of decided we might
end up writing I2O support for ourselves, so now the question we have
boils down to the following...
As a refresher, I work for a group considering Linux in an embedded
application using a MIPS processor and a Galileo support chip. We are
defining embedded as meaning "diskless, file system-less, and bootable
from prom." Topics under discussion on our end include:
-is Linux available for such an application, that is, are there real
Linux kernels and sources available right now?
-are there development tools available?
-are there companies that might be able to aid us in development of
kernel specific and/or application code?
-for each affirmative answer, where specifically can we go to find what
we need?
So far I've only been able to dig up bits and pieces while we really
need a more comprehensive answer. As things are going I think we can
contribute several things to the Linux community out of the project we
are working on but I've got to convince management that Linux is the way
to go first.
Any help will be very appreciated, and again, thanks to all those who
responded to my first e-mail; the answers provided really helped!
Thanks,
Bill Ryder
Unisys Corporation
Malvern, PA.
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Mac and Linux on TCP/IP
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Campbell Andrew)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:35:14 +0100
david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have successfully connected my PowerPC to my Linux box through the
> serial port using a null modem cable and a communication sofware called
> Kermit. The problem is that the Mac is restrained to a sort of dumb
> terminal...
> What I would like to do now is to create a TCP/IP connection between the
> two without installing AppleTalk on Linux.
> I have heard that I could set up a PPP connection.
> Does someone know how to do this ? Are there resources on-line for this
First the good news - it *can* be done (after all, that's effectivley
what's happening when you connect to the Internet). Now the bad news - I
can't off hand remember how. I believe you should read up on the Linux
PPP How-To as that should give you some hints, also (I think) the How-To
on serial terminals.
However, even if you get this going, you will still be restricted to
using Telnet, FTP amd Web Browsers to use your Linux box, which is ok
but sort of restrictive. Why is it that you don't want to install
Appletalk on you Linux machine (just out of curiosity) ?
I would personally advise purchasing a network card for the Mac as they
really arn't that expensive these days - just make sure you get one with
Mac drivers. Don't do what I initially did and buy a noname PCI Ethernet
card and just assume that the Apple Ethernet drivers will work - they
won't. State that you need it for a Mac. However, a cheapo PCI NE2000
run-alike card for the Linux box (I'm assuming it's an Intel PC or
clone) shouldn't set you back more than 15 or 20 quid (mine didn't) and
will almost certainly work providing you enable it in your kernel. Then
all you need is either a) a cheap hub or b) an ethernet crossover cable.
The crossover cable option is cheaper in the short term and probably all
you actually need. So you could probably do all this for no more than,
say, 50 quid. The speed of it, even with 10Mb cards, is worth it. Using
a Linux package called Netatalk (which comes with most distributions -
I'm using SuSE 6.0) I can now see my Linux box as an extra 2Gb external
hard drive (it mounts on the desktop just like any other drive) and have
succesfully backed up my entire system to it.
Good luck :-)
Jim
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