Linux-Networking Digest #906, Volume #11 Thu, 15 Jul 99 17:13:49 EDT
Contents:
Re: Named Showing Up Always (Joseph Mendoza)
cannot maintain connection in linux ("doc450")
Xircom on Redhat 6.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Creating a Linux ISP server ("Greg Boes")
Re: Samba isn't in network neighbourhood on Win9x (Monte Phillips)
How to set your hostname? (John H. Chauvin)
Re: windows 95 client on a linux server ("Mark Marinelli")
Re: Sendmail, Fetchmail and Firewalls (Keith Davey)
Re: VERY SEXY STUFF 72476 (Stewart Honsberger)
hylafax - dialstring for modem (Torsten Mack)
MARS-NWE paper waste. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SuSE 6.1 rc.conf (Andy Liddiard)
Re: Machine disappears till ping? (Ed Van Duinen)
RH 6.0 NIS+ clients (Scott Abbe)
Re: NFS problems in Redhat Linux 6 ("Dr. Ram Samudrala")
Re: PCI Token Ring Drivers (Pascal Fleer)
Re: Linux Terminal Emulators ("T.E.Dickey")
Setting up network to a win98 box ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
udp service error ("LOG ON Tech")
Re: Need help - IRQ blocked by another device? (jeff)
Re: PPP Routing Problem (Clifford Kite)
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From: Joseph Mendoza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Named Showing Up Always
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 12:00:42 -0600
Try poking around in /etc/syslog.conf and see if anything is redirected
to /dev/console, except for kern.*.
--Joey Mendoza
* Remove _NOSPAM_ *
Eff Smith wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Our RH 6.0 Linux machine has been very annoying as of late in that it shows
> queries to and from named on screen even if we are logged out. What have I
> done and how can it be shut off so that this information ends up in the logs
> rather than on screen?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Eff J. Smith
>
> Vice President, New Technologies Group
> Neoa Resources, Ltd.
> Tel: 937.767.9417 x201
> Fax: 937.767.9418
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From: "doc450" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cannot maintain connection in linux
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:24:13 -0400
Hi, i cannot get through the authentication process when i log on to my isp
using linux.
I can log on okay in windows using dun networking automatically, but if i
try logging on manually using a terminal window i do not get through.
The command in the authentication process is ppp, login, exit
When i type login and press enter, i get a prompt that ask me for user name
and password, when i type in my correct password i an error saying
%authentication failed%
I know every thing i okay with my username and password, because when i log
on automatically using dial up networking in windows it works.
I tried the ppp command, it ask me for a domain name server, i type in
206.191.82.225, then i get a lot of garbage on the screen then i get
disconnected.
I called my isp which at&t canada and they told me that they use ppp
connecting, so now i am confused because when i use ppp in linux i just
don't get connected.
Help, can someone please help me.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Xircom on Redhat 6.0
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:19:21 GMT
Hello all,
Here is my problem. I am running Redhat 6.0 on a Solis PII laptop, (
basically its a Dell Latitude). I am having incredible difficulty
getting my Xircom Real Port Ethernet card to work.
If anyone out there can help me please HELP!!
Thanks in advanced.
Dan
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From: "Greg Boes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creating a Linux ISP server
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:21:18 -0500
Ted Wagner wrote in message <7mijvc$no0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>Can anyone provide any guidance?
>
Sheesh, drag that T1 over to my house and I'll show you everything
you need to know!
greg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Monte Phillips)
Subject: Re: Samba isn't in network neighbourhood on Win9x
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:23:31 GMT
This site has a step by step howto for complete setup of samba. steps
for both linux and the win machine. (and they really work <G>)
http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html
and this one as well
http://home.talkcity.com/MigrationPath/maguai/samba.html
These sites singly or in combination are nearly guaranteed to get you
networked.
>> My Samba-Server does'nt show up in the Win9x-network neighbourhood...
>> Any ideas, what could have gone wrong?? I can use smbclient to work on
>> the Win-Box, it works perfectly, but as I want my Samba-Server to act as
>> a File--Server, i need it in the network-neighbouthood....
>>
>> Thanks, Rainer.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John H. Chauvin)
Subject: How to set your hostname?
Date: 15 Jul 1999 19:26:15 GMT
What configuration files do you typically have to modify if you want to
change your hostname? I know that you have to modify /etc/hosts and
most likely /etc/sendmail.cf and/or sendmail.cw. Is this all files I
should worry about?
By the way, how does a machine know its name. All the /etc/hosts file
does is relate an IP address to a name. It does not tell the computer
what its name is. How does a given computer know what its name is?
Thanks,
John Chauvin
--
John H. Chauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netcom - Online Communication Services San Jose, CA
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From: "Mark Marinelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: windows 95 client on a linux server
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 15:27:49 -0400
I have the exact same problem with two Linksys EtherPCI II cards (NE2000 PCI
module). At one point, I actually did have the two talking to eachother
(Telnet and FTP, and Samba), but had to reinstall the Linux OS due to
another problem. When I used what I thought were the same settings the
second time around, I got nothing. I would think that all one should need
to do is:
- for the Linux box:
* set the eth0 to static IP address 10.0.0.1, netmask 255.0.0.0, no
gateway
"ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 up"
* give the eth0 host a name, in my case "linux0.mydomain.net"
* add both the eth0 host (10.0.0.1) and the Windows host (10.0.0.2) to
the hosts file
- for the Windows box:
* install Microsoft TCP/IP driver
* set the static IP address to 10.0.0.2, netmask 255.0.0.0, no gateway
- for network:
* plug both boxes into the hub, boot up, and ping away
As I said, at one point I had the two communicating just fine, and then upon
re-install, I could not re-establish the connection. When I have the Samba
daemon running on the Linux box, and the Windows box is running with Network
Neighborhood open, I will get an entry for the Linux box when it first
boots, but it goes away if I refresh the window. This tells me that there
is some sort of network communication happening at some point, but it goes
away. This is driving me &$#($ nuts. Please let me know if you get any
help.
Thanks,
Mark "The Linux Networking Newbie"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:7mcn9f$lsr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have installed Redhat 5.2 - linux kernel 2.0.36 on a computer. It has
> a NE2000 compatible (Compex RL2000 PCI) ethernet card. I have configured
> the card as eth0 and ifconfig command recognizes the card. I have also
> installed NIS and NFS on the system. I am trying to connect a windows 95
> system with the same NE 2000 ethernet card as a client to the linux
> machine. I have not been able to do this. If I connect the windows
> machine to other windows machines it pings and establishes connection.
>
> I have set the gateway of the windows machine to the IP address of the
> linux server and the DNS entries to that of the Linux server which is
> 192.168.41.1 with a netmasking of 255.255.255.0
>
> Please advice me as to how to go about further.
>
> The linux server telnets and ftps to itself.
>
> Thanks
>
> Basker
>
>
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From: Keith Davey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sendmail, Fetchmail and Firewalls
Date: 15 Jul 1999 19:39:35 GMT
Hi,
I can't think of anything that fetchmail could do to hose your networking
like you discribe. I would reverify all your settings, and if they all
look fine, contact your ISP and see if anything is going on on there end.
Can your Win98 client get out using IP addresses insted of hostnames?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: I've been trying to set-up a network at the
: office, and I've encountered a problem.
: I have about 8 PCs with Win98 connected through a
: hub to the Linux RH5.2 Server. The server dials
: out to the ISP and invokes firewall rules
: (ipfwadm) to masquerade the PCs to the outside.
: It was working fine (I could send mail and browse
: the web with little difficulty), then I set up
: Fetchmail.
: After I set up Fetchmail to grab my email out of
: a virtual pop and distribute it on my server, the
: PCs could no longer go out onto the web (nor
: could they get anywhere beyond mt server or
: themselves internally).
: Is there something in Fetchmail or in Sendmail
: that could be causing this? Or is it a problem
: being caused by something else that isn't
: apparent?
: Thanks,
: David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.lynx
Subject: Re: VERY SEXY STUFF 72476
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 19:41:36 GMT
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 12:30:09 -0400, Devoid wrote:
>> >ADULTS!
>> >
>> >Click the link below:
{sigh} When you follow up to these moron's postings - would you all atleast
remember to remove the URL? He gets enough advertising in without us helping
him out.
>> This fellow seems convinced BBnPlanet and the Nuie Registry are not going
>> to bother him any. Please ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> what is going on.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] too!
I've already sent a letter to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Two, in fact) and got an
automated response assuring me that there would be a human reading the
message, and that I'd see a human response within 24 hours.
If I don't get a response, I fully intend to send a copy of the message (in
the first newsgroup I see it), once daily, to all three of [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], and [EMAIL PROTECTED] until ONE of them assures me
that this joker is permanantly banned from their services.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE Linux 6.0 / OS/2 Warp 4
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 21:05:37 +0200
From: Torsten Mack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hylafax - dialstring for modem
hi there,
in my office I need to dial a 0 to get a dial tone, so my modem would
have to do the same. How can I tell hylafax to initialize the modem with
that 0 to get the dial tone. With minicom I found out that the
dialstring I need is
atx0 dt0, <number>
I tried to add this in /var/spool/fax/etc/config.modem at entry
ModemDialCmd.
/var/log/messages says NO DIALTONE
please help
--
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre
minds" (Albert Einstein)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: MARS-NWE paper waste.
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:04:44 GMT
I have mars-nwe-0.99pl10 running under RH5.2 on a 486DX2/66. I am using
it exclusively as a print server for a HP LaserJet 4. Everything prints
fine and all is well EXCEPT it wastes a ton of paper. Whenever a user
prints out of a Win95 DOS screen or app., or when certain users print
anything from Win95, a blank page, and sometimes two, follow the print
job. However, from another workstation (Win95 and LINUX), all prints
fine (except DOS). I have tried disabling "Send EOF" in the print
filter set up using printtool on the Linux box running Mars, but every
time I go back, it's enabled again. Anybody have any clues how to stop
the senseless murder of trees? I've looked through the mars docs and
the printing docs I could find, but to no avail.
If this is the wrong forum for this question, please forgive me.
TIA.
Mark
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 20:23:18 -0400
From: Andy Liddiard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE 6.1 rc.conf
Hullo all,
Does anyone know where I can find the scope and limitations of SuSE's
rc.conf described somewhere? I've scoured the docs but no goals after
extra time. What I particularly need to know is if IPCHAINS= is a legit
statement. And GATEWAY=, too.
Nice idea to chuck everything into one bucket. Needs a man page.
cheers
Andy
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From: Ed Van Duinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Machine disappears till ping?
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:49:51 -0400
John,
I am also experiencing this problem on RH6.0 with all patches.
The system is a Dell OptiPlex GX1 with an integrated 10/100 NIC. The
chipset on the system board is a 3Com and Dell is advertising it as an
"integrated 3Com� PCI 3C905B-TX Wakeup On LAN NIC, operating at 10 or
100 Mbps".
However, taking your lead, I disabled the integrated NIC and installed a
3Com 3C509TP ISA NIC. Unfortunately, the problem still continues...
Which 3Com card did you successful use?
Thanks,
Ed Van Duinen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Coppens wrote:
>
> Hi Ricki & Haze
>
> No solution... I couldn't leave the university without a WWW, so I took
> out the card and put in a 3Com card (stolen from a coleague's machine,
> but
> then he shouldn't have taken a vacation ;-). Everything is up and
> doesn't
> seem to have any problem at all. Still this thing has intrigued me and
> I will try to experiment a bit more.
>
> John
>
<snip>
> > > > John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > > Hi...
> > > > >
> > > > > Strange problem: our web server, www.uccor.edu.ar, at times disappears
> > > > > and cannot be reached from the outside (not by www.uccor.edu.ar nor
> > > > > by its IP, not by httpd nor other means).
> > > > >
> > > > > When I connect to another machine on the net there, and do a ping from
> > > > > this machine to the webserver, everything wakes up, and the webserver
> > > > > is suddenly visible again.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any suggestions?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Abbe)
Subject: RH 6.0 NIS+ clients
Date: 15 Jul 1999 18:26:10 GMT
Hello;
I've been trying to setup several RH 6.0 systems
as NIS+ clients. I'm close, I can login as root and see
the various tables. I'm unable to login as a user on the
RH systems. I've tried a couple of different things in
/etc/pam.d/login (and others) but I'm unable to login
as a user. Any pointers? FWIW I'm using the default,
gnome, and have played with a /etc/pam.d/gdm.
Scott Abbe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Dr. Ram Samudrala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NFS problems in Redhat Linux 6
Date: 15 Jul 1999 20:04:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.networking Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hello!
>on some machines its impossible to compile knfsd as module with a
>vanilla 2.2.10 kernel. the redhat 2.2.5 kernelsources are patched
>to allow this.
>three possible solutions:
>1) switch back to redhat's 2.2.5
>2) compile knfs into the kernel instead of as module
>3) apply som patches (eg: alan cox's ac10)
> cu andreas
Does anyone know why the "nfssvc not implemented" error occurs even
though NFS is compiled into the kernel? And how can I compile 2.2.10
to not have this error? Thanks!
--Ram
--
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---Eleanor Roosevelt
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From: Pascal Fleer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI Token Ring Drivers
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 21:43:57 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have a look at http://www.linuxtr.net/
Pascal
Peter Masters wrote:
> I have an IBM Token Ring 4/16/100 MBit Autosensing network card in my
> machine, and I am trying to get it to work under linux, only it's PCI, so
> the drivers are different. Does anyone know where the latest drivers are?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Peter Masters
--
First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you... then you win
Ghandi
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Terminal Emulators
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 20:19:02 GMT
Christian Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> We have many IBM 486 DX/2 machines that we would like to re-deploy in the
> hospital using Linux as an OS, as Windows 9x won't work for us. In order
> to do this, we need to find a terminal package that will do the following:
> * VT102 (or better) emulation with answerback support
XFree86 xterm supports answerback (the string is set as a resource).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Setting up network to a win98 box
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 19:48:29 GMT
Can someone spare some knowledge on setting up network bewteen a win98
box and linux box?
I have a Pentium 350MHZ running with Win98 (A machine), the cable modem
is connected to this box. Another Win98 box (B machine) is netwroked to
A machine. Everythings is running fine. Now, I have set up another
pc (C machine)running on Linux (Mandrake 5.2) and I want to network it
to the A machine so that I can share the internet connection. Can
somebody show me how to do it step by step?
Thanks
Brian
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From: "LOG ON Tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.mail.sendmail,de.comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: udp service error
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 20:30:17 GMT
Hi all!
I have run into a problem with the UDP port blocking in 2.2.5.
I have a deamon process that runs on 121/tcp and 121/udp. In this case it
does really use the udp port - it is not just assigned.
I have these entries in the etc/services file.
When the process starts I get an error "Warning: unknown port udp erpc/121".
I understand that an internal process now drops all udp ports under 512 as a
security measure --right?
The software vendor has confirmed that the port on the service can not be
changed. At least there is no source available to do so. So I must get the
system to allow communication on this port.
How can this be done?
Great thanks to all that reply ;)
Dwayne
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From: jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Need help - IRQ blocked by another device?
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:26:50 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is your APIC mode set to full table or full table mapped?
Linux works best with full table mapped mode, (at least with 2.2.5)
Jeff
PS read the APIC howto
Wenyao Tsai wrote:
> I'm having major network/system problems and need help. I'm currently
> running Red Hat 6.0 Kernel 2.2.5-15 smp with 2 - Pentium II 333 on a M
> Technologies Stallion M668 motherboard. I have 2 - 3COM 3c905B ethernet
> cards installed. My problem is that after a period of time while the
> system is running I get the following message:
>
> kernel: eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by
> another device?
>
> or
>
> kernel: eth1: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by
> another device?
>
> After this message comes up it kill my network connections and I have to
> reboot the system only for it to happen again. It sounds like an IRQ
> conflict but I do not have much installed. Here is my /proc/interrupts
>
> CPU0 CPU1
> 0: 86446 0 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 345 348 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
> 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 8: 1 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
> 12: 4 9 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
> 13: 1 0 XT-PIC fpu
> 14: 26784 21357 IO-APIC-edge ide0
> 15: 3232 2356 IO-APIC-edge ide1
> 16: 1029 1041 IO-APIC-level eth1
> 18: 794 779 IO-APIC-level eth0
> NMI: 0
> ERR: 0
>
> Here's my /proc/pci:
>
> I/O at 0xffffff00 [0xffffff01].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfffff000 [0xfffff000].
> Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
> Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 36).
> Medium devsel. IRQ 18. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min
> Gnt=10.Max Lat=
> 10.
> I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xebfeff80 [0xebfeff80].
> Bus 0, device 14, function 0:
> Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 36).
> Medium devsel. IRQ 16. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min
> Gnt=10.Max Lat=
> 10.
>
> One thing that I have noticed is that my system board has set the IRQ
> for the 3COM NICs to 11 and 5 yet Linux has them set to 18 and 16. I've
> tried using linuxconf to set the IRQ manually but I am unable to. This
> problem is driving me crazy, any information would be great.
>
> Thanks,
> Wenyao
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: PPP Routing Problem
Date: 15 Jul 1999 15:27:11 -0500
Terry Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: So, it all works once I have the routing table set up. How do I instruct my
: box to always route to the ppp0 interface, if it is up. I have three
: workstations on my home (192.168.1.0) network. Can someone help me with
One way is to remove any existing default route to the local network and
use the pppd defaultroute option. You don't need a default route to the
local network, a network-specific route will do just fine:
/sbin/route add -net 198.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
In case you don't know, the routing is set up in a boot-up file, its
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 here, YMMV.
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
/* A salute to Inspector Baynes, of the Surry Constabulary, the only
police Inspector to ever best Mr. Sherlock Holmes at his own game.
"The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. */
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