Linux-Networking Digest #103, Volume #12 Wed, 4 Aug 99 06:13:45 EDT
Contents:
Re: dhcpcd, RH/Mandrake 6.0, and @home HOORAY (Stephen Bosch)
Re: RH 6.0 networking ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: DHCP problems with REDHAT (Stephen Satchell)
how to setup ADSL in RH6.0? ("Emer Kurbegovic")
Re: eth0 - weird timing problem ?? (Colin Wong)
more than 1 ethernet card in a box? (System User)
Re: win95->linux routing ("Quiney, Philip (EXCHANGE:HAL02:HM10)")
Re: Help with samba! (Lindoze 2000)
trouble with ppp and speed (Kimmo Hovi)
Samba or NFS? (Lindoze 2000)
Re: Samba or NFS? (Andrew Williams)
Linux & ISDN ("FOO")
Dial-On Demand with RH 5.2? (Dan)
Re: Telnet on Second NIC (Rudolf Potucek)
Re: SATAN (Rudolf Potucek)
Re: My server won't wake up! (Rudolf Potucek)
squid administartion ("devrim baris acar")
Re: Syn_cookies.... (Thomas Zajic)
Re: 100Mbit Network is to slow! (Dan)
2nd ISDN channel ("Markus")
Linux NFS hangs, if server machine goes down (Michael Balser)
Perl and Apache Lock (Jeffrey Kok)
Write errors via NFS with new Linux kernels 2.2.x/2.3.x (Michael Balser)
Problems NFS mounting Linux partitions on SUN Solaris (Michael Balser)
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From: Stephen Bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: dhcpcd, RH/Mandrake 6.0, and @home HOORAY
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 05:31:27 GMT
Stephen Bosch wrote:
> Hello, everyone:
>
> Well, I think it's safe to ask for help now. I've spent days beating
> bushes, reading documentation and looking through Usenet archives. I've
> even spoken with my local guru, but he uses static IP and didn't have
> much that he could offer me that I hadn't already tried.
HOORAY!
I am writing this to you in Netscape Messenger from Linux. I can't tell you
how fantastic this feels.
It seems that the confusion stemmed from the fact that I had many things go
wrong at once. It is tough to get DHCP working when the OS can't even see
your card. I made many changes to the configuration and abandoned those
changes when they didn't work. Of course, my ethernet card wasn't up then.
It is now.
Many thanks to Jason Brossa for his (as it ultimately turned out!) helpful
primer on setting up Red Hat 6.0 with @home. The changes to the ifup script
were what ultimately solved my problem. Down with pump!
So -- in order now: get card working FIRST, then configure IP. If you don't
notice that your card is not working until after you have attempted a bunch
of IP configuration, remember to repeat those steps AFTER the card works.
Seems obvious, but in the heat of combat things can get mighty confusing
mighty quickly.
Thanks for all your help!
-Stephen-
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH 6.0 networking
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 06:44:50 GMT
Well, I am very new to linux but not to TCP/IP
-are you pinging by name or adres?
- can you do a traceroute when you cannot ping?
- Is there some sort of powersaving enabled on the machine?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am running RedHat 6.0 as a router, web, and ftp server connecting
to
> my ISP through ADSL. The problem I am having is that sometimes I can
> ping the machine from work and other times I cannot. I can always get
> to the internet from the machine or any of the machines on my home
> network. What could cause Linux or my machine to have the networking
up
> sometimes and down other times? Both ethernet cards in the Linux
> machine are Intel EtherExpress Pro 100Bs (to the hub and to the ADSL
> bridge).
>
> Any help would be appreciated
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marc
>
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: DHCP problems with REDHAT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Satchell)
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 00:40:00 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug O'Leary) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>... Based on some other info from the newsgroups, I downloaded what I
>thought was an updated version of pump (different dhcp client) from
>redhat's web site. When I went to install it, rpm told me that the
>version that I had was newer than the one that I was attempting to
>install. The one that was already on there came with the Redhat 6.0
>Mandrake version. So, with little hope for success, I deinstalled the
>version that was there and installed the version from Redhat's web site.
>It worked; I am finally getting an address.
You're welcome. I've been conversing with the current maintainer of pump,
and have a highly modified version to send back to Red Hat. For one thing,
I discovered that pump has some real buffer overrun vunerabilities. My
version fixes all those problems by assuming that no DHCP server is
perfect...
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From: "Emer Kurbegovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to setup ADSL in RH6.0?
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 01:14:32 -0500
I have installed RH6.0 on my computer. The problem I am having is that i
cannot figure out how to setup ADSL in RH6.0. under win95/98 i used WinPOeT
(www.ivasion.com) to authenticate to be able to go online. now i have 1000
ADSL from Alcatel. i think it's model 18202AB. it's using bridging, so it's
connected to internet whole the time. that's what the manual is saying. i am
having static ip address too. provider is "www.dallas.net" anybody had
similar experiences?
i would really greatly appreciate any help.
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From: Colin Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: eth0 - weird timing problem ??
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 04:59:36 GMT
I have seen this problem before.... it was caused by an 'unlrelated'
error.
My answer is bad memory (RAM).
Try this:
recompile your kernel once or twice by typing:
(first goto your kernel source directory)
# make dep;make clean;make kernel
if you get any sort of error (ex: signal 11) or anything unexpected, then
you can be pretty sure it is your memory chips.
If this is the case, you might want to look at
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
You could also try removing some of your memory and use different pairing
combinations with your existing chips....
Personally, I ran it a 50+ times to check that the RAM I replaced worked
properly, but this is excessive.....
If you have more info or want to ask me what the heck I am talking about,
Email me....
Colin
PS: I still have my defective ram chips around... so I could generate
similar message if you ever want to see them (provided I have time).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> After a fresh boot, I get the following "broadcast"
> (?) over and over:
> [ eth0: 21140 transmit timed out, status f4260000, sia 000050cc
> ffff0001 fffffff9 fff00000, resetting ...]
> If I do [ ifconfig eth0 down ] then [ ifconfig eht0 up ], the report
> stops. Think my network function is 'OK', but have not been successful
> at pinging the W95 station - or configuring Samba.
> Is this a problem ??
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From: System User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: more than 1 ethernet card in a box?
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 15:49:18 -0500
I know this is a stupid question.. but what advantages does having more
than 1 ethernet cards in a linux box provide? I read about a lot of people
using like 15 cards in a box.. what's the point?
Sorry if this is a stupid question :)
Thanks
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From: "Quiney, Philip (EXCHANGE:HAL02:HM10)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: win95->linux routing
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 08:06:21 +0100
Will Stockdell wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get my spouse's Win95 box talking to my Linux box. Each
> box has an ethernet card and modem. The Linux box is fine. I can ping
> the ethernet card in the Win95 box OK. The problem is that the Win95
> box refuses to talk to anything but its modem. Sometimes running ping
> will even bring up the internet dialer for the net connection.
>
I have found that this is a problem too. In my case clicking on 'cancel'
on the modem dialler then causes the connection to work via local
network (with ping/ftp/telnet etc).
If you have problem with 'ping' using machine names then it should
always work with IP addresses. You can set up a 'hosts' file on the
windows machine. There is a sample file C:\WINDOWS\HOSTS.SAM which needs
editing and renaming to C:\WINDOWS\HOSTS Of course you have to reboot
before the changes take effect but you expected that didn't you ;-) It
is also a direct lift of a unix /etc/hosts file which brings to mind the
comment about those that don't understand unix are condemned to re
invent it poorly.
On my home network I have found that if the Linux machine is running
samba the host names resolve without this 'hosts' file and that pesky
network neighborhood thing works as well and as long as you have a Linux
user the same as the Windows user you can see your home directory on the
Linux box.
HTH
Regards
Phil Q
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From: Lindoze 2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with samba!
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 03:21:51 -0400
did you check your ports?
for example, if you wrote a program that uses port 12345
and your 9th ftpd uses 12345 which you completely forgot about, then you
would not
beable to use the less dominate one.
Xitrum wrote:
>
> I recently set up samba. But strange thing happens. I can ping the win98 box
> as well as the linux box, and access shared files in both computer
> (network neighbourhood in win98 list shared linux dir & smbclient can access
> shared dir. in win98). However, I can't telnet to the linux box any more.
> Can anyone help.
>
> P.S: Before I install samba, I can only use IP address to access the linux
> box.
>
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From: Kimmo Hovi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: trouble with ppp and speed
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 10:14:35 +0300
mmmkay, this is the general description of the prob:
hardware/software setup:
telewell 28.8k ISA pnp modem
kernel 2.2.10
ppp-2.3.5
problem in general:
only reaching a transfer rate of 1.5k/sec
more info:
according to /var/log/messages, I do connect at 28800
ppp-compress-21, -24, -26 modules aliased to bsd_comp and ppp_deflate
solutions anyone?
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From: Lindoze 2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samba or NFS?
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 03:19:48 -0400
which is better Samba or NFS?
which is better for windoze + Linux?
which is better for Linux + Linux + Internet?
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From: Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba or NFS?
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 09:40:01 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NFS is for Linux/Unix systems
Samba is by far the best way to communicate with Windoze machines.
Not sure about the internet, depends what you want to do.
Lindoze 2000 wrote:
> which is better Samba or NFS?
>
> which is better for windoze + Linux?
>
> which is better for Linux + Linux + Internet?
>
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From: "FOO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux & ISDN
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 09:34:53 +0200
Hallo,
ich habe folgendes Problem:
Wie kann ich in meinem Linux-Rechner, der als Internet-Enwahlrechner eines
lokalen Netzes benutzt wird,
den zweiten Kanal der AVM A1 ISDN-Karte aktivieren. Momentan ist nur eine
Kanal offen.
Gru�,
Markus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan)
Subject: Dial-On Demand with RH 5.2?
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 07:56:34 GMT
Hi, me, the man with the firewall again!
My linux fw is working great, high speed, very reliable, and so far as
I know secure. Problem is that I am having to manually connect to the
internet, or have it setup to connect at startup. This is bad, as it
ties up the facsimile line, meaning no faxes can be recieved, or sent
for that matter.
I have tried to use pppd, like in the man page, but it says 'dial on
demand not available with v2.2.1 kernel driver' or something along
those lines, indicating that I might need a newer kernel than my
2.0.37...
But if I go to a 2.2.x kernel, will I not have to upgrade a whole
hosty of stuff? I don't fancy hours of downloading and I don't want to
buy any CDs.
My alternative was to install diald, but the darned thing refused to
compile. I can post the compiler errors if required, but there
shouldn't be anything weird about my RH 5.2 setup, the only thing I've
changed apart from some networking config is my kernel from 2.0.36 to
2.0.37 (this should be no big wooop!)
PLEASe someone help this eager to learn newbie...
Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rudolf Potucek)
Subject: Re: Telnet on Second NIC
Date: 4 Aug 1999 08:44:18 GMT
It is my understanding that having both allow and deny files empty means
allow everything. I encountered problems of the kind yoy describe on a
10-base-2 (coax) network, though initially more severe, because of simple
cabling problems, so check that out.
Also ... how long did you wait? The timeout for reverse DNS lookup may be
quite long 60s+, so maybe it is working but since you use play addresses
on the 2nd NIC it may take a while to figure out that a reverse lookup
doesn't get any info ... it may be working after all
Rudolf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rudolf Potucek)
Subject: Re: SATAN
Date: 4 Aug 1999 08:46:10 GMT
The web probably has a ton and a half of answers but I believe to have
heard that SATAN just won't run on Linux. There's a similar product
called Saint that's supposed to work though.
Rudolf
Ted Hajduk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote: : Gentlepeople,
: Has anyone had any experience with running SATAN under Linux. I don't want
: to bore the group with step by step details of the installation - suffice it
: to say thet I've done all the research I can find.
: When I start satan I get the message that "satan is starting up" and then it
: never comes back.
: Any ideas? Should I post more details?
: Thanks in advance for your time.
: Regards
: Ted
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rudolf Potucek)
Subject: Re: My server won't wake up!
Date: 4 Aug 1999 08:50:47 GMT
I would assume you NEVER want a server to go into idle mode nyhow ...
that sort of defeats the whole point. So why don't you just change
the BIOS settings to suppress the machine from ever going to sleep?
Just my $.02,
Rudolf
Charlie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Okay... my RH6 server runs fine if it's connected to remotely at least
: once an hour or so, however if it becomes idle for more than an hour or
: two it goes into this bizarre mode where it will not wake up when it is
: asked for something (be it a ping, ftp, http, mail, or telnet.) It's not
: just how long I am waiting... netscape will time out, so will ftp and
: telnet, and if I try again it still won't respond.
: If I wait long enough (like 4 hours) it will suddenly wake up and be
: fine... another way I can wake it up is log onto the local terminal and
: THEN use netscape, ftp, or telenet, and the server wakes up everyone can
: connect and everything is spiffy-keen.
: The server is using a fixed IP so it's not a DHCP problem as some peoble
: have told me. This problem has been going on for quite a while now (like
: 4 weeks) and has lasted through several fresh installs of RH6.
: If anyone can give any insight into what might be the problem, PLEASE let
: me know!
: Thanks!
: Charlie
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From: "devrim baris acar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: squid administartion
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:45:09 +0100
Hi,
Is there a better document on configuring squid than that of the document
comes within the application?
I want to find more detailed info on the variables and settings?
Thanks in advance...
baris
feel the flow.............
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Syn_cookies....
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 08:59:30 GMT
On Wed, 04 Aug 1999 05:23:16 GMT, Colin Wong wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is anyone out there running a 2.0.x kernel? (preferrably 2.0.34
> Slackware release)
> If so, can you tell me how to use syn_cookies? I already recompiled the
> kernel with syn_cookies support, but it doesn't show up in
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4
> Anyone know why?
Well, AFAIK, it's simply not supposed to show up in /proc
in a 2.0 kernel, but it works nevertheless - compiling it
into the kernel is all you need to do.
I'm running a 2.0.37 kernel on what was once a Slackware 3.4
system long time ago.
[root@sphere]:~# ls -l /proc/sys/net/ipv4
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 4 10:51 arp_check_interval
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 4 10:51 arp_confirm_interval
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 4 10:51 arp_confirm_timeout
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 4 10:51 arp_dead_res_time
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 4 10:51 arp_max_tries
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 4 10:51 arp_res_time
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 4 10:51 arp_timeout
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 4 10:51 ip_dynaddr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 4 10:51 ip_forward
[root@sphere]:~# grep SYN /var/log/messages
Aug 2 19:26:19 tk212017089010 kernel: Warning: possible SYN flood from
192.168.1.1 on 192.168.1.1:8000. Sending cookies.
[root@sphere]:~#
HTH,
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan)
Subject: Re: 100Mbit Network is to slow!
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 08:04:49 GMT
>: Is there someone, who can tell me, how i can speed up my network!
How's your cable installation? If you're using cat 5 and you've not
installed it right (at least 300mm from mains cabling, twisting hasn't
been undone/affected or wire strands being damaged by being pulled
through holes etc, hub is clear from rf interference etc...) then the
network will be slow, due to noise levels forcing the speed down to
10mbps....possibly less due to lost packets (which will incidentally
be handled at hardware level under normal circumstances)
Remember that 100MBps is a lot of bandwidth for a noisy cable! think
modems falling back under noisy conditions, and think much MUCH more
sensitive.
Dan
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From: "Markus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2nd ISDN channel
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:20:42 +0200
Hi,
I�m trying to use the 2nd channel of my AVM A1-ISDN-Controller, but
there is still working only one channel. I use SuSE 6.1 Linux in combination
with HiSax. Is there any configuration-file where i can make the right
entry for permanent 2-channel access?
Markus
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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 11:38:44 +0200
From: Michael Balser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux NFS hangs, if server machine goes down
Description:
We have mounted a partition under Linux which is located on another
Linux machine via NFS. If the server machine goes down, the client
machine does not take appropriate notice, thus it hangs. For example
command 'ls /' does not terminate.
Questions:
* Did someone already experience similar problems?
* How can this problem be solved?
Settings:
* Client: Linux Redhat 6.0 with included kernel 2.2.5
with 'knfsd-1.3.2-1.i386.rpm' installed
* Server: Linux Redhat 6.0 with included kernel 2.2.5
with 'knfsd-1.3.2-1.i386.rpm' installed
also tried: Linux Redhat 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36
Thanks for replies,
Michael
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From: Jeffrey Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Perl and Apache Lock
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 17:33:52 +0800
Does any anyone here has this problem? or is able to offer some
suggestions how to solve it?
Only one of my perl scripts can be run under apache. All the rests gave
me an internal server error.
I keep getting "Internal Server Error" by the borwser
and
[error]No such file or directory:exec of /home/cgi-bin/test.pl failed
[error] Premature end of script headers: /home/cgi-bin/test.pl
the files are there and the directories too.
I've tested all of them and found them to be working.
All the directories and files have been set to be accessed by all.
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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 11:40:36 +0200
From: Michael Balser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Write errors via NFS with new Linux kernels 2.2.x/2.3.x
Problem Summary:
Write errors occur when writing to nfs mounted partitions.
Description:
I experienced frequent write errors when writing to an nfs mounted
partition on a Linux client using a SUN Solaris server. The write
errors occur only during special tasks, for example when
* compiling programs like 'mutt' (email client) using 'gcc', or
* compiling several Lisp sources using Allegro Common Lisp.
The resulting object files often (but not always) are corrupt.
The problem seems to be related to nfs implementation in new Linux
kernels. With kernel version 2.0.36 this problem did not occur.
Questions:
* Did someone already experience similar problems?
* How can this problem be solved?
* Are there known incompatibility problems between SUN NFS and new
Linux NFS?
* Could this problem be caused by changed file locking policy under
Linux?
Setting:
* Client: Linux RedHat 5.2 with Kernel 2.2.9
also tried: Linux Redhat 5.2 with Kernel 2.3.6
also tried: Linux Redhat 6.0 with included Kernel 2.2.5
* Server: Sun Solaris 2.5.1
also tried: installed NFS mega patch (Patch-ID# 103640-27)
* current fstab entry for Linux:
<sun>:/export/home /home nfs sync,rsize=3D1024,wsize=3D1024 0 0=
(Also tried different options:
+ without 'sync'
+ rsize=3D8192,wsize=3D8192
+ ...
The current settings seem to be safest.)
Thanks for replies,
Michael
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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 11:39:50 +0200
From: Michael Balser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems NFS mounting Linux partitions on SUN Solaris
Description:
With the new Linux kernel 2.2.x, we are not able to mount a Linux
partition on a SUN Solaris machine. Under Solaris the command:
mount <linux machine>:/local1 /mnt/<linux machine>/local1/
results in the following error message:
nfs mount: <linux machine>: NFS service not responding
nfs mount: retrying: /mnt/<linux machine>/local1
Mounting the Linux partition from another Linux machine works.
The problem seems to be related to nfs implementation in new Linux
kernels. With kernel version 2.0.36 this problem did not occur.
We have read a number of postings concerning mount problems and new
Linux NFS Server implementation, but we still could not solve the
problem.
Questions:
* How can this problem be solved?
* Are there known incompatibility problems between SUN NFS and new
Linux NFS?
* Does the kernel that comes with Redhat 6.0 use the experimental
kernel NFS server implementation? If yes, why does the kernel
use experimental code?
Settings:
* Client: Sun Solaris 2.5.1 with NFS patch (Patch-ID# 103640-27)
* Server: Linux Redhat 6.0 with included kernel 2.2.5
also tried: installed 'knfsd-1.3.2-1.i386.rpm'
* current entry in 'etc/exports' on (linux) server machine:
/local1 <sun machine>(rw) ...
* On Linux machine NFSv2 seems to be running, since 'nfsstat'
produces:
Server rpc stats:
calls badcalls badauth badclnt xdrcall
0 11 11 0 0
Server nfs v2:
null getattr setattr root lookup readlink
0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
read wrcache write create remove rename
0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
link symlink mkdir rmdir readdir fsstat
0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Thanks for replies,
Michael
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