Linux-Networking Digest #952, Volume #11 Tue, 20 Jul 99 15:13:50 EDT
Contents:
Re: Detecting my SOHOware NIC (Rod Smith)
How to split a TCP connection ? (Julien Godard)
Linux DNS & Windows CE name resolution ("Rod Biagtan")
Re: samba and windows network - incompatible namespaces? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: IP masq amd PPPd diald on demad (Anders Svensson)
Re: Local IP addresses ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: are 4 nics practical? (Greg Leblanc)
Re: Linux to Linux PPP links (Clifford Kite)
Re: eth0 & ppp0 problem (Clifford Kite)
Re: Help! Alcatel ADSL modem locks up? (Francois Magnan)
TCP & Linux queing (buffer chain) ? (Julien Godard)
Re: Detecting my SOHOware NIC ("UCI")
Re: Print on Windows95 from Linux ?? (Daniel Buettner)
Re: Can't talk to modem with ppp (Clifford Kite)
Re: Why are there so many slow modem issues? (Jason Koloseike)
Re: Sending emails over a network ("Holger van Koll")
Print on Windows95 from Linux ?? ("Chow Hoi Ka, Eric")
Re: Sharing NetZero on home network? (Steve Pearce)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Detecting my SOHOware NIC
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:40:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 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 ??
Unlikely. I've got an actual SOHOware 10/100 NIC, and it's DEFINITELY a
Macronix Tulip clone board.
> On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:06:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vidar Andresen)
> wrote:
>
>>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},
You (Vidar) haven't stated whether you've actually got an NDC SOHOware
10/100 NIC. It looks from your post as if you've just located a matching
string in the kernel source. These things happen, and don't mean the
products are compatible. If, OTOH, you have evidence that NDC has done a
switch on the design without changing their model number (or if there are
two different models of SOHOware NIC), then please elaborate.
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From: Julien Godard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to split a TCP connection ?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:45:32 +0100
Hi again ;-)
I would like to split a TCP connection into two connections using linux.
I have two PC-linux connected through a TCP connection via a network
emulator. For test prupose, I want to have 2 TCP connections, one via 1
Network emulator, 1 via another network emulator.
Of course this is a proxy work, but someone know a software able to do
that ? (open src, if possible...). Will I need three PC's ?
Thank you
julien
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From: "Rod Biagtan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux DNS & Windows CE name resolution
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:48:05 GMT
I'm in a bit of a bind and would appreciate any help on this.
I've got a Windows CE client and a Linux DNS server. When the CE client
fires up and tries to make a connection, it sends a query to the Linux DNS
server asking it who "webserver" is.
The Linux box ignores this request.
After a short period of time, the CE client will send a 2nd request to the
Linux DNS server again asking who "webserver" is.
The Linux box ignores it again.
Finally, on the 3rd request, the CE client will send the FQDN request -
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The Linux box accepts responds to this with the correct IP address.
My question is:
1) Can the Linux DNS server be configured to respond to just "webserver"
(maybe some kind of wildcard)?
2) Can CE client be configured to send the FQDN from the get go?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Rod Biagtan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: samba and windows network - incompatible namespaces?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:52:42 GMT
In article <7n1emi$mrv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'm having a severe problem with samba. I'll try to explain it
> > all; I apologize for the wordiness, but I'm hoping to supply enough
> > info here to get a solution back, assuming one actually exists. So:
> >
> > I'm trying to make samba work on a new redhat 6 system with a
network
> > that consists of 1 win98 pc, 1 win95 pc, and 1 win nt4/sp3 pc. And a
> > redhat 6 pc.
> >
> > The network controller, more or less, is the NT4 machine.
> >
> > There is no password on the network on any of the machines except
> > the Linux box. The log in on the linux box is root, and the password
> > is zxcvbn
> >
> > The log in on all the Windows machines is "Ben Williams".
> >
> > Now, I have the machines up to where they ping each other happily.
> > I can even see the Linux group (toast) on the 98 machine, where I am
> > trying to get the initial connection up. But when I try to access
> > the shared dir on the linux machine by clicking into the group
> > (toast) and then the share (weasle), I get a dialog that says I
> > must supply a password. Now, on the Linux machine, although I tried
> > to set it for no password on root and etc, I failed. I set the
> password
> > length to 0, but it still won't let me get rid of the paranoia. Ok,
> > so the password I use is "zxcvbn" which is easily typed and easily
> > remembered, though completely superfluous and annoying. :( That's
the
> > ONLY password anywhere in the system; it's what I use when something
> > won't let me get away without a password. So that's the only
password
> > I expect to encounter.
> >
> > Win98's dialog says I'm trying to access \\WEASLE\IPC$
> >
> > Well, maybe, but all *I* said was "weasle" (lower case, I might
add).
>
> first, set up a user that is identical on both sides ( add your 'root'
> user to win-boxes, or 'ben williams' to linux.
> have the same password on both sides.
>
> this makes it easier .
>
> next, win98 and nt /sp3 have encrypted passwords, so you will have to
> 'enableplaintextpassword' in the registry ( somewhere under
> services/rdr/parameters), you can find in a lot of winnt-howtos.
>
> or, you set up samba with encrypted passwords - there is a howto for
> that but i have not done it yet.
>
> last, make the share accessible for the identical user.
>
> in samba2.0 or higher, there is a pretty good diagnosis.txt - step by
> step troubleshooter, plus the swat - admin-tool.
> i find them helpfull.
>
> hth
>
Really is a bit confusing,
What I did is work in 'mode domain', with 'security=domain' in
smb.conf, I think is the best option. You can read about it with 'man
smb.conf', but the help is not very good.
Then I have some users that are identical in linux and in the NT
domain, same username and password. Also I had to 'import' the password
info from the linux, with 'smbpasswd'.
You have to logon in linux as root and import each user info, I don't
remember the syntax but is easy (man smbpasswd). It writes the user
password in the smbpasswd file. When you don't change the passwords
very often, it's enought.
Then, this users can access to the linux disk from w95, w98, NT, with
the same rights as their linux user.
All the other domain users only can access as 'guest' to some shares.
In my smb.conf file I changed the next things:
workgroup=mydomain
...
guest account=guest (I have a guest user in linux)
...
security=domain
password server=PDCserver someBDCservers
...
encrypt passwords=yes
smb password file=/etc/smbpasswd
...
unix password sync = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password* %n\n
*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
...
username map = /etc/smbusers
...
and for example:
[alldisk]
comment = Guest access to Linux disk (readonly-test)
path = /
read only = yes
writeable = no
public = no
guest ok = yes
[ukfrv_sh]
comment = Victor access to root (test)
valid users = ukfrv
path = /
writeable = yes
[gos_sh]
comment = private gos share (test)
valid users = gos
path = /
writeable = no
read only = yes
guest ok = no
[ukfrv & gos]
comment = Victor & Gos Share (test)
path = /
valid users = ukfrv gos
; 'ukfrv' and 'gos' are two of my users for testing
# A publicly accessible directory, but read only,
[public]
comment = Public Stuff
path = /home/guest
only guest = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
guest ok = yes
and also:
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes
it creates and show a home directory for each allowed user, on fly.
All this is working.
But when you access to the linux machine, you are auteficated as your
domain user or as guest. Then if you are for example guest, you can not
access as any other user, and if you are user1, you can not access as
user2, you have to login again in NT as user2, because you can not be
two users at the same time.
The info and mans are a bit confusing, but I think there are some good
utilities to configure samba from xwindows or from a web browser. Check
the samba web page.
I hope it will help (I hope I don't miss anything, I was a lot of time
trying)
Victor
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From: Anders Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP masq amd PPPd diald on demad
Date: 20 Jul 1999 16:31:12 GMT
Holger van Koll wrote:
> you did
> echo 7 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr
> at boot time?
>
>
>
Now I have, and it didn't change anything. By the way I'm not using
diald, only pppd's demand funktion.
Again every thing works fine from my linux-box. I think the problem is
because the IP address I get from my ISP is differen from the one I use
in my 'options' file.
Any other suggestions would be welcome
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Local IP addresses
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:52:12 GMT
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Emmett McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now suppose I want to put 3 NeXT computers on my network
> - but not put them on the internet.
[ ... ]
> The IP of the new box would be 192.168.0.2
>
> But what would be the values for the router,
> netmask, and broadcast network ?
If they aren't "on the Internet", they don't need to route. Netmask would be
255.255.0.0 if you're using the full unroutable class B space (subnet if you
like); broadcast addr would be 192.168.255.255.
> I seem to recall having tried to set this up and the computer balked
> at having a 192 IP address and a router with a 209 address.
> I think it said it couldn't find the network. Is the solution for
> the NetInfo Master machine, if it is Intel, to have 2 NICs?
That would work, yes. You'd give the second card an addr in the 192.168
network with the same configuration as the other machines on your private LAN.
-Chuck
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From: Greg Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: are 4 nics practical?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:34:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Beat Rupp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> Am 19.07.99, 19:39:38, schrieb Greg Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
zum=20
> Thema Re: are 4 nics practical?:
>
> > 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
whol=
> e
> > > 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)
> > >
> > > Now I have one practical solution, which requires the least amount
o=
> f
> > 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
mbi=
> ts
> > parts
> > > of the network and finally one 100 PCI nic for the new, fast part.
> > >
> > > Is it possible to copy large amounts of data (let's say hundres of
> > > megabytes) between these "subnets" without slowing everything
down?
> > >
>
> > Sounds to me like you'll be beating up that server pretty badly.
Are
> > these high quality NICs with good onboard processors? I'm
guessing=20
> that
> > you have one host-to-pci bridge, and one pci-to-isa bridge, so
> > everything is running off of one data channel to the CPU. If
these=20
> are
> > all high quality nics (not necessarily new, but definately not cheap
> > ne2000 clones) then I don't think you'll have much trouble unless=20
> these
> > file transfers are going all the time. I've seen 4 port dual
speed=20
> hubs
> > for about $80, so they're really not all that expensive. You
might=20
> look
> > at that, depending on how much you're willing to spend.
> > Greg
>
> The ISA nics are SMC EtherCards 16C (or something, they have BNC,=20
> RJ46, AUI; that's what the C stands for: combo. Maybe there is
another=20
> number in the Product name, I'm not sure but 16 is there.)
>
All of the SMC's that I've seen have been pretty decent.
> I have the experience that if I copy something on my network from
SMC=20
> to SMC (in winslow), the cpu is used for 100% and work is not
smooth=20
> anymore. In Linux I just can't get over 500kb/s but it's smooth to=20
> work. Conclusion: I don't know whether the cards have a high
quality=20
> chip (although they cost about $80-90 USD).
I've been paying about $20 tops for my ISA nics, and I'm not putting
those in machines any longer. I've never done any bandwidth
measurements, but from what I've heard routing can be demanding on the
host CPU because the NICs can't speak IP, they only speak ethernet (much
lower level). You PC has to take the packet from the NIC, and take it
apart to find out where it's going, then build a new header, then put
the packet back together, and then sent it back out the appropraite NIC.
The assmption that you will never get more than 30 MBit on your 100 mbit
nic is ABSURD. What about communicating with the other 100MBit devices
on your network? I'm assuming that you're using IP, because you say
that the processor can spike to that level, and IPX doesn't usually do
that. (besides, nobody uses IPX anymore) My guess is that if this
machine is just routing (switching would be less demanding I think, but
I don't know how to make a PC do that) it should be enough PC, if you're
trying to use it as a fileserver, or something else, you might want to
think about another solution.
>
> What sounds interesting is a dualspeed hub for $80. Where did you
see=20
> this one? Here in Switzerland these things are expensive (the
cheapest=20
> I found was about $160!).
I saw that price in a sale flyer here in Portland, Oregon. We have a
couple of computer warehouses that sell stuff cheap fairly often. I
don't know any prices for stuff overseas.
Greg
>
> Thanks for helping me!
>
> Beat
>
>
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: Linux to Linux PPP links
Date: 20 Jul 1999 12:08:26 -0500
Adrian Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Here is the chat script that is executed on the Linux client:
: 'ABORT' 'BUSY'
: 'ABORT' 'ERROR'
: 'ABORT' 'NO'
: ''AT OK-AT-OK ATZ OK-AT-OK
: 'ATS0=0 Q0 V1 &C1&D2&K0&M4&R2&H1&I0' OK-AT-OK
: ATDT878260 CONNECT
: "" ogin: ppp word: ppp
Remove the "login: ppp" and "word: ppp" chat expect/sends. You're
doing PAP authentication at the peer and the login/password scripting
prevents the PPP link negotiations from even starting.
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: eth0 & ppp0 problem
Date: 20 Jul 1999 10:50:40 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I currently have a Linux box at home set up as a network server with
: another Linux box and a Win95 PC connected to it. Everything is running
: great, telnet, ftp, ping, samba, yadda-yadda. My problem is while I'm
: on the server, ppp0 will not (run/connect to net) while my eth0 is
: running. So basically I have to shut the network down with
: /etc/rc.d/inet.d/network stop command. Then I can get ppp0 to connect
: to the net/ISP. After I'm done surfing restart the network and all is
: well. Something is conflicting but I don't know what, anyone got any
Take out the default route to the local network and just use a
network-specific route, e.g.,
/sbin/route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
That will work fine for the LAN. Pppd won't replace an existing default
route with one through the PPP interface even with the defaultroute
option.
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Subject: Re: Help! Alcatel ADSL modem locks up?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Francois Magnan)
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 18:01:18 GMT
Hi,
I have a similar problem. My modem is a Nortel 1Meg. I don't think it
is related to the modem though. I suspect kernel 2.2.5 to be
responsible. There is bugs in the 2.2.5 networking code. I upgraded to
2.2.10 and things go pretty well now. I was losing nework connectivity
on both cards sporadically (1.5 days up was the average). Now, things
seem to go better since it happened only once in three weeks. I also
suspect crackers to be able to do appropriate spoofing to disable the
linux box (even though I protect myself with "source address
verification" a very undocumented feature of the 2.X kernels).
Since my linux box is headless I will try to use Steve Cowles script.
This is a good idea. Thank you Steve.
Francois Magnan
On 07/19/99, "Vipin Malik" wrote:
>I have ADSL at home with SWBell, and they have provided me with an
Alcatel
>1000 ADSL external modem.
>I'm running it, connected to a 10base-T ethernet card in a 486 Linux
2.2.5
>computer, which serves as an IP masquerading server for my home LAN.
>
>There is another ethernet card that is connected to a hub on which
all my
>other computers reside.
>The computers on my side has 172.16.17.x addresses and the card
connected to
>the ADSL modem gets it's IP address via DHCP.
>
>Most of the time stuff works fine :), However (ther's always a
however :( )
>
>Now the problem that I am having is this: Every so often, I cannot
get
>packets out to the internet, even though DHCP has not timed out and
my ISP
>connection light is still green.
> details: ifconfig still shows both network cards working ok,
with the
>card connected to the ADSL modem still having the IP address.
>However I cannot even ping to the router on the otherside of the ADSL
modem.
>All lights are green and I can see the ADSL TX/RX light
>flash as I try to ping outside.
> This problem is pretty sporadic, and usually occures only when I
have
>packets going through (i.e. never found the system in said state even
after
>prolonged idle times (>1 day), and also happened to me thrice in 1
hour ).
>
>The only solution (i have found) is to power cycle the modem and
request
>another DHCP IP address (ifdown eth1, then ifup eth1). Incindently
just
>requesting another IP address via DHCP does not help without the
modem power
>cycle.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>P.S. I was using the same setup with a modem as the internet
connection
>point (via ppp) things were just honky dory (i.e. fine :)
>
>Other details: Internal ethernet card=3COM 3C5xx, ADSL ethernet
>card=Kingston tech, NE2000 compatable, both ISA.
>
>
>thanks,
>Vipin
>
>
>
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From: Julien Godard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TCP & Linux queing (buffer chain) ?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:15:00 +0100
Hi all,
I am doing some TCP test using linux. I experienced something which
seems to be an overflow somewhere.
I know there are some queuing between the application level and the
Physical link (skb (socket buffer), default linux queuing (device),
driver buffer, nic buffer...) but I need to understand that more deeply.
Can someone explain me this chain of queue, please ? (especially all
befor the nic driver)
For example, I search to know through what kind of buffer pass the data,
(bytes based, packets based) where can I find the sizes of such buffers,
and how to have a look at (or manage) these buffer during a connection ?
Thank you
julien
I use the kernel 2.3.3 (initially Red Hat 5.2)
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From: "UCI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Detecting my SOHOware NIC
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:55:38 -0700
Hey thanks for the great advice...I really appreciate is Rod...I tried
e-mailing you but even removing the uce didn't work...o well...thanks
again...I'll try it...hope it works
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From: Daniel Buettner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Print on Windows95 from Linux ??
Date: 20 Jul 1999 17:30:34 GMT
Chow Hoi Ka, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can print file on Windows95 printer from Linux with Samba ???
> It's difficult to setup. Would you please to show me some detail or FILE
> STRUCTURES if you have any experimence about this ?
I have never added a windows printer to /etc/printcap so I can't
help you there. But if you only want to print the occasional file
you can use smbclient to do it:
smbclient //somemachine/printer -P
connects to somemachine's printer share as a printer (-P option);
you can then just 'put' the file you want printed and it will do
it. The file will be sent raw to the printer, so you may need to
use ghostscript or something to ensure the windows printer can
handle your file.
I suspect you could setup remote printing in /etc/printcap by
setting the device to /dev/null and creating an input filter
that redirects the file through smbclient. But I've never been
bothered enough by the method above to actually look into it.
HTH,
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Can't talk to modem with ppp
Date: 20 Jul 1999 10:41:57 -0500
Jim Gamble ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I am trying to configure PPP on a RedHat 5.1 (kernel 2.0.35) system. The
: system previously ran RedHat 4.1 and all hardware worked fine for pppd.
: The pppd daemon fails with a connect script failure.
Does this mean there is an explicit message to the effect that the chat
script failed? Then show us an exact copy of the chat script.
Using the "-v" option
: of chat shows that no response ever comes back from the modem (i.e., never
: see "OK" in response to "ATZ"-- timeout is at default 45 seconds).
: However, if I do
What does "setserial /dev/ttyS2 show? Does the IRQ match the one the
modem actually uses? Does the UART match the one for the serial port
that the modem uses?
: "echo ATDT5551212 > /dev/modem",
: the modem dials out and attempts to connect (although it seems to take an
: awfully long time to do so).
Curious, I've never been able to dial that way.
: I am using ttyS3 for the modem, and have nothing competing for resources on
: ttyS1. The /dev/modem is a hard link to /dev/ttyS3.
: I am at the point of looking through the chat.c code, and feeling somewhat
: daunted. If anyone has a suggestion, please send it my way.
Chat isn't the problem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Koloseike)
Subject: Re: Why are there so many slow modem issues?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:28:27 GMT
I had tried posting my solution to this thread, but it
came out as a different article. So here it is again:
Last night I finally solved my "slow modem" problem:
add a "baud rate" to /etc/ppp/option or as
an additional parameter that kppp passes
to pppd.
For those who aren't familiar with my tilt on the
problem, I'll recap.
I had been using Mandrake 5.3 successfully and upgraded
to Mandrake 6.0 soon after it was available. As with
any release there were a few bugs. By getting the
update RPMS and downgrading pppd to version 2.3.5
I was able to do everything I had done with Mandrake 5.3.
Unfortunately, a subtle "slow connection" issue crept into
the picture. Instead of the familiar 3-4 kbyte/sec
transfer rate, my 33.6K modem was only chugging along at
a slow 1 kbyte/sec.
After following several fruitless suggestion about IRQ's,
MRU's, etc, I was about ready to give up.
Last night I went back to me pre-kppp ppp scripts that I
had used with Redhat 5.1, and to my surprise, they worked!
After some tracking, I was able to narrow it down to one
parameter: "baud rate".
pppd expects a "baud rate" parameter. Since kppp wasn't
passing it by default, ppp fixed itself to a slow
transfer rate, even though the serial port had
been set to a higher speed (38400, 11520, etc.)
Hope this helps with your issues.
PS. Even thou I downgraded to pppd 2.3.5-2, this is still
an issue with pppd 2.3.7. But I would term this as a
kppp bug. I downgraded to 2.3.5 so that I could connect
to a CHAP authenticated site. 2.3.7 was only allowing
me to connect to a scripted ISP site.
Jason Koloseike
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From: "Holger van Koll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sending emails over a network
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:07:31 +0200
VBF-Ratingen GmbH schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi!!
>
>I've got a network (TCP/IP) with one Linux-Server (Samba) and a few
>Windows-Clients. As I have an ISDN-card in the Linux-Server, I want to
>use it from the Windows-CLients. That means, I want to be able to send
>an email from a Windows-Client over the ISDN-card in the Linux-Server.
>Basically, I think it can't be a too big problem: the mail is sent over
>the network to the server, and it transmits it... But, I have now idea
>how to get that working :-)
the isdn-card works already?
install qmail
install serialmail
use the linux-server as an smtp-server at your windows-clients
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From: "Chow Hoi Ka, Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Print on Windows95 from Linux ??
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:33:55 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
How can print file on Windows95 printer from Linux with Samba ???
It's difficult to setup. Would you please to show me some detail or FILE
STRUCTURES if you have any experimence about this ?
Best regards,
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Pearce)
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.ms-windows.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Sharing NetZero on home network?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:55:49 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Monte Phillips) wrote:
>I would guess that what is needed is something like Sysgate or Wingate
>to handle those ips for the clients. I am assuming that the NetZero
>is on the WinBox, and the Winbox will be your internet connection for
>the network?
>Hey if this is out in left field just ignore! :)
I use WinProxy which is free for small users.
~~~~~~ Steve Pearce ~~~~~~
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