Linux-Networking Digest #945, Volume #11 Mon, 19 Jul 99 23:13:32 EDT
Contents:
Re: How to install Savage3D driver ? (Adam Constabaris)
Re: netscape in RH6.0 ("R.K.Aanestad")
t ("hmhnews")
Re: SN-3200CT + linux = ?? (Vidar Andresen)
identd usage (Kyle Petersen)
Re: are 4 nics practical? (Vidar Andresen)
Grrr! Can I do this with IPmasq? (Andrew)
Re: Detecting my SOHOware NIC (Vidar Andresen)
Re: Administering Linux through Windows (Vidar Andresen)
Re: Weird ppp problem... (Ken R.)
Re: My Dissapointment to find Linux not a viable solution
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to setup linux as a ras server? (Josh Gentry)
Re: My Dissapointment to find Linux not a viable solution
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Detecting my SOHOware NIC ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LRH Linux hangs with a 100Base-T network board (Allen Wong)
LRH Linux hangs with a 100Base-T network board ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux as network gateway (Chip Buck)
Re: My Dissapointment to find Linux not a viable solution ("Chad Mulligan")
Re: pppd:Device can not be overridden (Clifford Kite)
Re: Help Me Identify an Ethernet Card ("mikes")
Re: Linux dial-in server + windows95 (Josh Gentry)
Re: modem for RH6.0 ("M. Smith")
Re: modem for RH6.0 (Ken R.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Constabaris)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Re: How to install Savage3D driver ?
Date: 20 Jul 1999 00:10:36 GMT
Tim Roberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Constabaris) wrote:
: >...
: >Once you've got the server in the right place, delete the file "X" which
: >should be in that same directory (this file will only exist if you've
: >tried to set up X before). Then enter
: >
: >ln -s X /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
: Source first, then target:
: ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA X
Whoops! Nice save.
AC
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From: "R.K.Aanestad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netscape in RH6.0
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 02:30:14 +0200
Timothy Laswell wrote:
>
> I experience a similar problem. It appears to happen when I try to access
> a Java page. I even upgraded to the 4.6 client that I downloaded from
> Netscape's web site. It still crashes when using Java. I don't know,
> maybe I missed something on the install.
>
> Tim
>
> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, manhattanian wrote:
>
> > Hi, Linux guys
> >
> > I installed the RH6.0. The problem is when I use the netscape to surf, it crashes
>whenever it meets java. The error message is Bus error. Anyone can give me some clue
>to fix it?
It's a tiny fontproblem regarding a missing path that usually causes
this.
The solution is found at:
http://www.redhat.com/cgi-bin/support?solution&11-990511-0082&100-926468988&14-0&15-0&25-1&3-netscape%2520crashes%2520java&30-
In brief:
write:
chkfontpath --list
if the 75dpi scaled fonts aren't in fontpath, make sure you've installed
the 75dpi scaled fonts and then write:
chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
If you can't find "chkfontpath" write "locate chkfontpath" and then run
it with full pathstatement...i don't remember if it's in /usr/sbin or
/sbin.
K.
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From: "hmhnews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: t
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 00:45:46 -0000
t
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vidar Andresen)
Subject: Re: SN-3200CT + linux = ??
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:06:50 GMT
In article <hQuk3.15737$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Chad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>i got a SN3200CT network card (some web sites say its a D Link but who
>knows). i got linux slackware 4.0. and i got drivers for this network card
>for LINUX 1.2.13 or whatever. now i follow the directions to tar it and do a
[...]
> 3. To include networking and SN-3200 support in your kernel:
> # cd /usr/src/linux
> # make config (answer yes on CONFIG_NET and CONFIG_INET and Realtek)
> a. "Network device support?" ------> y
> b. When system prompts "Realtek cards?", answer 'y'.
> c. Then answer 'y' to the "RTL8029 support" item.
ne2k-pci I guess..:
pci_clone_list[] __initdata = {
{0x10ec, 0x8029, "RealTek RTL-8029", 0},
{0x1050, 0x0940, "Winbond 89C940", 0},
{0x11f6, 0x1401, "Compex RL2000", 0},
{0x8e2e, 0x3000, "KTI ET32P2", 0},
{0x4a14, 0x5000, "NetVin NV5000SC", 0},
{0x1106, 0x0926, "Via 86C926", ONLY_16BIT_IO},
{0x10bd, 0x0e34, "SureCom NE34", 0},
{0x1050, 0x5a5a, "Winbond", 0},
{0x12c3, 0x0058, "Holtek HT80232", ONLY_16BIT_IO | HOLTEK_FDX},
{0x12c3, 0x5598, "Holtek HT80229",
ONLY_32BIT_IO | HOLTEK_FDX | STOP_PG_0x60 },
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/index.html
Non License-Conforming Drivers
Several drivers have been distributed that are little more than
renamed versions of my drivers. Some have my name, the copyright
notice or the Gnu GPL license notice removed. The less flagrant
violations merely fail to note that the driver has been modified
from the original version. (The GPL requires such a note.) Here
is a mapping from the bogus driver name to the official name:
mpx5030.c rtl8139.c
smc1211.c rtl8139.c
rtl8029.c ne2k-pci.c
Mvh Vidar Andresen
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Subject: identd usage
From: Kyle Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 Jul 1999 18:16:00 -0700
The only service I am running is "identd". I'm wondering what it is
used for and what it is needed for. Typically, the man page is no help.
I was under the impression that my ISP required it, at least for some
services, but I haven't verified that yet. I know I can control what
info it returns.
This was in my /var/log/messages file:
Jul 18 11:17:50 zzz identd[20233]: from: 18.72.0.176 ( BIG-SCREW.MIT.EDU ) for: 3185,
8001
Jul 18 11:17:50 zzz identd[20233]: Successful lookup: 3185 , 8001 : xxx.yyy
Jul 18 11:37:56 zzz -- MARK --
Jul 18 11:41:44 zzz identd[20308]: from: 199.172.62.5 ( world-f.std.com ) for: 3194, 80
Jul 18 11:41:44 zzz identd[20308]: Returned: 3194 , 80 : NO-USER
The last pair was repeated several times over a couple of hours.
1) Do these kind of uses look normal?
2) What are the risks in providing this service with (non)bogus info?
3) What do ISPs normally use the info for?
4) I've been noticing those "MARK" lines lately. What's that?
Post answers only to NG, thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vidar Andresen)
Subject: Re: are 4 nics practical?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:06:48 GMT
In article <7museg$6no$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Beat Rupp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ok, I have a home server with 2 nics (LAN, cable modem) and the whole
>network is BNC. Now I want Fast Ethernet and I don't wanna buy some
>expensive dual speed hub (the thing is, that 2 parts of the network have to
>stay 10mbits)
First a warning; I dont know anything of this, i just talk; done.
I guess the cable modem dont have that amount of speed / traffic.
>Now I have one practical solution, which requires the least amount of new
>cabling: the current server gets two additional nics and will become some
>sort of router/hub. Now that this shouldn't be a problem on the software
>side with Linux I suspect that this could decrease network speed drastically
>on the hardware front. It's a Pentium 166, 64mb, Asus X-P55T2P4. The nics
>would be: 10/RJ45/ISA for cable modem, 2 x 10/BNC/ISA for the 10 mbits parts
>of the network and finally one 100 PCI nic for the new, fast part.
I dont think any of the 10Mbps nic's pose any treath. I have an
486DX-66 (Dell optiplex 466/le) set up as a bridge (2x 3com 509b) and
it is abel to receive and send trough what i push on it. 1170KB/sec
udp. 1100-1120KB/sec tcp. (ttcp)
I dont know how much is left in the machine when i do so. 'top' dont
give any information, but, 'top' itself shows up using 10x as much cpu
when it goes on. So if what's left is 1/10 of normal, i guess it
takes 90% of cpu to do so. (on a machine with '23 bogusmips' or
something.)
I belive routing takes less from a machine. A Pentium 166 'should be
enough for everyone'.
(I have an NexGen 100 ('75 bogomips', a bit like your machine, well.
Bogo and Bogus.) i had plan to set up like yours, I belive I would not
had any problem on the 10Mbps-side.)
>Is it possible to copy large amounts of data (let's say hundres of
>megabytes) between these "subnets" without slowing everything down?
The 100Mbps side will not transmit more than 30Mbps trough the server
to the (3x) 10Mbps side. At worst. Line speed on 3 10Mbps nic's.
(Your only 10mbps tp is not running full duplex.)
And that is 3x what my bridge does. (But your machine have at least
3x as much machine resources to do it with.)
And you are within the limits of the isa-bus. On that side.
''The ISA bus can do 5.3MB/sec (42Mb/sec), which sounds like more
than enough for 10Mbps ethernet. In the case of the 100Mbps cards,
you clearly need a faster bus to take advantage of the network
bandwidth.''
(Have a look at the Ethernet-howto chapter 2.6 and 4.*)
I dont think the problem is 'large amounts of data', but how fast it
arrives.. Or can be sendt. At what cost. (maybe not going for a
realtek8139-based nic if cost (what it takes to deliver) is a problem)
And that will happen on the 100Mbps side.
Last a warning; I dont know anything of this, i just talk; done.
Mvh Vidar Andresen
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From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Grrr! Can I do this with IPmasq?
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:56:54 -0500
I have been trying to get this setup for a few evenings and I have had 0%
success. Here's the setup:
* I have an internal network at home of 199.4.185.x
* My work network is 40.23.10.x
* I have an Linux box running IPmasq with 2 network cards in it. One goes
to my local network. The other connects to my Cisco 760 ISDN router
(autodial to work).
* Normal stuff works (telnet, http, ftp, etc).
* With WINS servers and the IPmasq gateway input into my windows machines,
I can reach work computers by \\server.
However, I CANNOT connect to the NT domain with one of these Win98 boxes.
I have tried setting up a master browser on my firewall pointing to both
interfaces with the "browse syncronization" business but to no avail. I
have not been able to get browsing working to work nor can I get the NT
login to work.
Can this be done? Am I going about it the wrong way? How does a 98
machine "find" the PDC for DOMAINNAME? Is it done through browsing?
The router should be able to do this (ie, if I hooked up a 98 machine
directly to the router, it should login to the domain). I think the
problem is that my 98 machines are only looking on the local subnet for
the PDC....and having the WINS servers doesn't help unless I am doing a
name lookup by the \\server method.
Please email me if possible because I can't keep up with this newsgroup.
Thanks!
Andrew Kaczorek
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vidar Andresen)
Subject: Re: Detecting my SOHOware NIC
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:06:47 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 22:04:55 -0700, "UCI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I was wondering how to get my network card supported by LINUX....It is a
>>SOHOWARE FAST ETHERNET 10/100 card manufactured by NDC. It says it supports
>>SCO UNIX....so does that mean it can be adapted to support LINUX...or do i
>>have to find a NIC that says it supports LINUX?
>
> This card is supposedly functional with the tulip driver, but so far
>I can't get mine operational. It should be probed fine during
>installation - perhaps I'm missing something in the PCI setup.
Not tulip. Vortex. Newer version.
The '3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98' (shipped with 2.2.0 kernel up to 2.2.?)
dont have it.
The '3c59x.c:v0.99Kb 5/7/99' have it:
{"3cSOHO100-TX Hurricane", 0x10B7, 0x7646, 0xffff,
PCI_USES_IO|PCI_USES_MASTER, IS_CYCLONE, 128, vortex_probe1},
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html for updated
driver.
Mvh Vidar Andresen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vidar Andresen)
Subject: Re: Administering Linux through Windows
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:06:49 GMT
In article <7muhtf$r0q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Tom Pennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a Red Hat Linux Server running in the basement. The problem is that I
>want to log on to my server through the TCP/IP netwerk with a
>Windows95/98/NT machine, so I don't have to run to the basement every time I
>need to change some settings.
If what you need to do can be done via linuxconf; you can enable
access to linuxconf via a browser. And use netscape or whatever to
access that interface.
Just another option.
Mvh Vidar Andresen
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From: Ken R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Weird ppp problem...
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:49:10 GMT
I get the same problem, I have had it happen on a Novell LAN and a small
Linux LAN I set up at home. If you log in as root and type " tail -f
/var/log/messages" it may help. I did this and found a "nieghbour
overflow table" error. Although I don't have an answer to this error, I
have posted the question of this error and not recieved a response. I
noticed numerous posts with the same error and also with no responses.
If you figure this out, let me know, sorry I could not be of more help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.security.firewalls
Subject: Re: My Dissapointment to find Linux not a viable solution
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:22:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > This last response sounds like something from the dark ages. Fast,
> > effective file server based av solutions have been around for
years!!
>
> I have yet to see one.
Check out:
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/features/defendyournetwork/edchoice.html
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayTC.pl?/98poy/98poy.solution.htm
http://www.nwc.com/1007/1007r12.html
>
> >
> > Yes, viruses execute on the client. No, you do not have to execute
> > viruses to detect them. Since over 90% of virus, trojan and worm
> > incidents originate as files attached to emails, you can stop 90% of
> > virus incidents by scanning email traffic for viruses. we strongly
> > recommend scanning of all SMTP, FTP and HTTP - something our
InterScan
> > VirusWall does - on Linus, Solaris, HP UX, DEX UX and NT.
>
> To detect a virus, the virus must be in a form from which it can
> execute.
100% wrong
>No virus scanner can scan through all archive and encryption
> mechnisms. Viruses almost never "exist" in transit, most of them are
> compressed or encrypted. I my experience, most docs and program are
sent
> as .zip files.
All of Trend's products scan the following file types:
PKZIP, ZIP TO EXE, ARJ, ARJ TO EXE, LHA, LHA TO EXE, BINHEX, UUENCODE,
BASE64, TAR, GZIP(.GZ), LZEXE, PKLITE, DIET, MSCOMPRESS, CABINET(.CAB),
UNIX LZW, COMPRESS(.Z), UNIX PACK(.Z)
>
> >
> > As far as I know, InterScan is the only virus scanner scanning SMTP,
> > FTP and HTTP traffic available on Linux.
>
> I am dubious that scanning e-mail is a useful process.
Actually, it is the best place to scan. Over 85% of viruses come via
email attatchments. E-mail aware viruses such as Melissa have well
shown the futility of relying on desktop scanning.
>
> >
> > Desktop solutions are still important - users still have floppy
disks
> > and other ways of getting files that don't go through your email
server
> > and or firewall. However, the problem with desktop virus scanning
> > includes:
> >
> > 1. users may turn it off, change setting, not update them - or
> > interfere with the update process. Trend Micro's OfficeScan allows
> > administrators to centrally manage desktop virus protectio - taking
end
> > users out of the proces.
> >
> > 2. Viruses such as Melissa and the Explorer worm spread too fast to
> > update desktops/home users. You need to have virus protection built
> > into the infrastructure of the environment - that can be
> > centrally/remotely updated and managed.
> >
>
> Yes, MS Office viruses are the worst. The best solution is use another
> word processing package. *In fact* the only people that have been hit
> with any notable viruses lately are MS Office uses. A good argument
for
> Applix or Word Perfect.
>
Try to get a company of 50,000 desktops to change word processors!!
Good luck.
> --
> Mohawk Software
> Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, Linux. Applications, drivers, support.
> Visit http://www.mohawksoft.com
>
--
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Trend Micro
http://www.antivirus.com
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From: Josh Gentry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to setup linux as a ras server?
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:21:58 -0800
http://www.swcp.com/~jgentry/pers.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.security.firewalls
Subject: Re: My Dissapointment to find Linux not a viable solution
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:26:23 GMT
>
> Hi, I hope I'm not confounding things by jumping into this mid-
thread, but didn't
> Mcafee port a client of their NetShield product to Linux, SCO, AIX,
and others back
> in March?
>
> Hope this helps.....
>
> Shawn
>
>
Their webshield was based on Linux - but has been discontinued. I
think it is NT only.
--
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Trend Micro
http://www.antivirus.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Detecting my SOHOware NIC
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 02:05:08 GMT
On installation, NIC is probed as a 'tulip', and is configured as
such. Upon booting, it's not configured thru PCI.
We should try changing to the 3c59x driver ??
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:06:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vidar Andresen)
wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 22:04:55 -0700, "UCI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>I was wondering how to get my network card supported by LINUX....It is a
>>>SOHOWARE FAST ETHERNET 10/100 card manufactured by NDC. It says it supports
>>>SCO UNIX....so does that mean it can be adapted to support LINUX...or do i
>>>have to find a NIC that says it supports LINUX?
>>
>> This card is supposedly functional with the tulip driver, but so far
>>I can't get mine operational. It should be probed fine during
>>installation - perhaps I'm missing something in the PCI setup.
>
>Not tulip. Vortex. Newer version.
>
>The '3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98' (shipped with 2.2.0 kernel up to 2.2.?)
>dont have it.
>
>The '3c59x.c:v0.99Kb 5/7/99' have it:
>
> {"3cSOHO100-TX Hurricane", 0x10B7, 0x7646, 0xffff,
> PCI_USES_IO|PCI_USES_MASTER, IS_CYCLONE, 128, vortex_probe1},
>
>http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html for updated
>driver.
>
>Mvh Vidar Andresen
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From: Allen Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LRH Linux hangs with a 100Base-T network board
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 19:10:29 -0700
Jonathan,
At what point during the boot up process does it hang?
Allen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LRH Linux hangs with a 100Base-T network board
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:18:24 GMT
I have a puzzling problem with a Linux installation. It works fine
with a 10Base-T board installed, but when I install a 100Base-T board
the system will hang after a few minutes, but only if there are other
computers on the network. It's not the boards or the drivers because I
bought a totally different board and had the exact same problem. My
system configurations are below:
My system configuration:
Micron Pentium 100, using a Micronics motherboard. The Phoenix bios
was just updated.
32 meg memory
Red Hat Linux 6.0, off the CD's with no updates. The kernel is 2.2.5.
Samba
Diamond Stealth 2000 video board
Two hard disks, both with gigabytes of space available.
The network boards:
SMC EtherPower II, using the Epic100 chipset. I have the 1.07 version
of the Epic driver, I also tried the 1.06 version
Netgear FA310FX, using the Netgear supplied driver (a modified 0.89
tulip driver)
The network:
1 Windows NT 4.0 SP3 client
1 Windows 95 client (sometimes a Win-NT client)
The network is a local network using the addresses 192.168.1.*, with a
netmask of 255.255.255.0
The symptoms:
Boot all systems, all boot up. All client systems are able to see and
use the Linux Samba shares. Pings all work properly, including
multiple ping sessions on the nt box to the linux box using a packet
size of 64,000.
If no clients are booted, the linux box works fine. When at least one
of the clients are booted and running, EVEN THOUGH NOTHING IS BEING
DONE, the linux box will freeze after a period of time between 5
minutes and 1 hour, but usually closer to 5-10 minutes. A physical
reset is needed to get the linux box back. The only network traffic is
whatever the Windows systems do on their own when looking at the
network for SMB shares.
The crazy thing is when I have an SMC-Ultra network board installed (a
10Base-T board), there are no problems.
I also disabled Samba and the same problem occurred.
My final test was to turn off networking but leave Samba on. This time
there was no problem. No hang.
I reconfigured the kernel and set the option for a slow CPU, then reran
all the tests again. The problem is still here.
I also moved the video board and the network boards to different PCI
slots with no change.
My only conclusion is either there is a fundumental flaw in the kernel
or networking code which causes the failures at high speed, or there is
some sort of hardware problem going on which I can't figure out. I
can't believe it is the kernel or networking code, because other people
would have had these problems also. However, I also can't believe it
is the hardware, since everything else works well. The ONLY thing I
can think of is that the video board and the network boards aer somehow
interacting, but have no idea how.
Do you have any suggestions or ideas?
Thanks greatly in advance.
Jonathan Bayer
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From: Chip Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux as network gateway
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:33:17 -0400
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I am running Linux connected with a cable modem internet connection.
I want to use this machine as a gateway for two winblows machines(95/98)
Networking between the machines works fine ( samba etc...)
Does anyone know how best to configure this arrangement ?
The linux machine has two ethernet cards, one is dedicated to the
internal network
the other to the cable modem.
Thanks
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.security.firewalls
Subject: Re: My Dissapointment to find Linux not a viable solution
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 19:15:46 -0700
mlw wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> NOT, the anti virus should run on incoming files to the network, either
>> as a CVP or proxy between the LAN and the FW. Yes, having AV on the
>> desktop keeps floppy type viruses from propagating inside the network
>> but inbound files from the internet should be scanned in 1 place and
>> updates need to be done MUCH more than every month or so!
>>
>
>Sorry, but you are wrong.
>
>Viruses spread by having their code executed by a client machine, which
>then spreads the virus to other files to which the client has access.
>Having an anti-virus scanner running on the client machine is the only
>way to make sure the code is either not executed or unable to spread. A
>virus can not spread if it is not executed. The file server does not
>usually execute the files it is serving. This is why Linux can server
>Windows machines. A virus infected executable can sit on a file server
>and not infect other network files until it is run by a client machine
>with write access to previously mentioned network files.
>
>Making program files and document templates read-only on the NOS is very
>good idea no matter how you look at it.
>
>Lastly, you do not want a file server scanning for viruses on all files.
>There is no way a file server can server perform its functions and scan
>for viruses without being so slow that no one would use it.
>
Actually, NA Mcafee Net Scan on an NT server will scan all files accessed on the
server when opened by a client and prevent the virus even reaching the client. If it
doesn't arrive it cannot execute. BTW there isn't any noticable performance hit. The
system will even update the DAT files as often as you desire. Mine do it weekly since
Mcaffee is currently updating their files weekly.
>Think of it this way: A virus scanner uses up 4% of CPU time while
>running on an active client computer. Say the server system is 4 times
>faster than the client system. It would take 100 active connections to
>bottleneck the server in virus scanning alone. No, not a wise thing to
>do. (Yes I know the calculations are very simplistic, however the load
>is probably a much higher figure.)
>
>As for other things you say:
>
>"Inbound files from the internet" As in FTP, HTML, or Email? Sure
>programs are going to get on to a client machine, but they will not be
>executed by the firewall or file server. They will be executed by the
>client machine, which has anti-virus software on it.
>
>
>"Updates need to be done much more than every month or so!" Ok, what
>ever, not a big deal. Update every day and have users reboot every
>morning. There is client code for Windows which will allow you to do
>this.
>
>
>
>--
>Mohawk Software
>Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, Linux. Applications, drivers, support.
>Visit http://www.mohawksoft.com
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: pppd:Device can not be overridden
Date: 19 Jul 1999 20:19:35 -0500
Manfred Plagmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I have set up my ppp ISP connection and all works fine -- being root.
: I'll get the error message pppd[]:Device can not be overridden when I
: try to connect as a normal user. pppd is set to suid and the scripts are
: readable and executable by all.
The /dev/ttySx for the modem needs to be set read/write by all with
"chmod 666 /dev/ttySx" . Pppd changes the /dev/ttySx permissions to
crw-r--r-- at the start of the PPP session and back to crw-rw-rw- when
the PPP session ends.
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
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From: "mikes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help Me Identify an Ethernet Card
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:40:53 -0500
Reply-To: "mikes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hoyt,
If there is an FCC number to be found, there is an FCC directory on the
Intermet that will allow you to match number to manufacturer. i used it
quite a bit when I repaired computer monitors. It helped me a lot.
Cheers,
-Mike
Hoyt wrote in message <7j13fo$pdv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
I am trying to identify several ISA ethernet cards marked "Gateway
Communications, Inc.". I have done a web search and found nothing and tried
to contact Gateway, but they require a customer number for technical
assistance.
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From: Josh Gentry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Re: Linux dial-in server + windows95
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:23:39 -0800
http://www.swcp.com/~jgentry/pers.html
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From: "M. Smith" <smithm@mvpdotnet>
Subject: Re: modem for RH6.0
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:01:11 -0500
>manhattanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>Hi,
>Anybody can name some brands of modem that really works under RH6.0?
>Thanks.
I'm using an external US Robotics 28.8K that works just fine off of serial
port 1.
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From: Ken R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem for RH6.0
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:55:09 GMT
USR 56k works great, no setup problems and great speed. I use external.
Good luck.
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