Linux-Networking Digest #195, Volume #12 Wed, 11 Aug 99 22:13:34 EDT
Contents:
Re: Thousands of ATMs dead due to MCI (B'ichela)
Re: Displaying X on an IP Masq'd machine ("Sunil P. Khatri")
Re: DHCP and WINS (QuestionExchange)
Re: PPTP or IPSec Liunx VPN (QuestionExchange)
REXEC & Linux (James Knott)
Can Linux "see" Win95 drive/folders? How? (Michael Ward)
@home and internet connections thru cable ("Ramaswamy Krishnan")
Re: Respawning too fast ("mikes")
Re: Help needed, telnet as a user was failed (QuestionExchange)
Re: RCP errors (QuestionExchange)
Re: DHCP questions (cable modem) (Vincent)
Re: FTP and POP3 connection delays (QuestionExchange)
linux - cable modems ("Chris")
Re: Need help, please -> LINUX Routing Problems ???? (QuestionExchange)
Re: FTP and POP3 connection delays ("Seth" together.net>)
Re: smbmount: netbios name? (Gerald Pollack)
Re: @home and internet connections thru cable (Vilmos Soti)
IP Forwarding/Redirecting to a Proxy? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Network Slipping Problem (QuestionExchange)
Re: named/dns wants network connection on bootup - why? (QuestionExchange)
Re: Seagate IDE tape drive in Linux (QuestionExchange)
Re: @home and internet connections thru cable (Eric deRiel)
Re: IP Forwarding/Redirecting to a Proxy? ("D.Krivitsky")
Re: @home and internet connections thru cable ("Clue")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Crossposted-To: comp.software.year-2000,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Thousands of ATMs dead due to MCI
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:18:18 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 05:14:18 GMT, Wu Li Grandmaster
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just heard it, but it's been going on for 4 DAYS !
>
>Most of their frame relay system is screwed. It was so bad
>at one point WorldCom declared a "quiet period" so techs would
>stop working and they could see where the problems were.
>
>Many small ISP's are getting screwed and several may
>not stay in business due to customer's fleeing.
That might explain why my dynamic name service provider
Http://www.dhis.org their Solaris DNS server according to whois
dhis.org is located in portugal! has been DOWN for 4 days (gripe,
grumble) if you are going to reply. please use the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
address instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Point is, how long will it be before MCI Worldcom's data
division gets back online?
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From: "Sunil P. Khatri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Displaying X on an IP Masq'd machine
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:37:38 GMT
Thanks Jon and Paul for your replies. I figured out that ssh can do the
trick, as
Paul suspected.
For this, ssh should be configured so that it does not ask for the
user's password
when connecting to a.b.c.d. from 192.168.0.2 (or any local machine).
This is described
in the ssh-keygen manpage...
Now simply run, from the local machine, the following command:
ssh -n a.b.c.d command&
It works like a charm!
Sunil
> > "Sunil P. Khatri" wrote:
> >
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > I have successfully installed IP Masquerading on my home linux box.
> > > The configuration is as shown below:
> > > _______ _______
> > > 192.168.0.3-------| | | |
> > > | | | Local |
> > > 192.168.0.2-------| HUB |------------------| GW |---------
> > > local machines | | 192.168.0.1 | | w.x.y.z
> > > 192.168.0.4-------|_______| |_______|
> > >
> > > There are several local machines (192.168.0.x). The local gateway is
> > > connected by cable modem, and has address 192.168.0.1 (local part) and
> > > w.x.y.z (the address given by the cable modem company). All machines
> > > are Linux machines.
> > >
> > > Now 192.168.0.2 wants to run an X application on a server a.b.c.d, and
> > > have the results displayed on 192.168.0.2:0.0
> > >
> > > Since 192.168.0.x are local addresses according the local network naming
> > > conventions, there could be other 192.168.0.x's out there. How would the
> > > X application know that it is _my_ 192.168.0.2:0.0 that it should send
> > > the
> > > display data to?
> > >
> > > My questions are:
> > > 1) Is there a way to achieve this (perhaps using ssh or another
> > > program?).
> > > 2) Does the IP-Masq'ing code natively support this situation?
> > >
> > > Perhaps I am missing something simple...
> > > Thanks bunches,
> > > Sunil
> >
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From: QuestionExchange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DHCP and WINS
Date: 12 Aug 1999 1:0:47 GMT
> Win95 clients. Everithing is fine except I don't know how to
> set WINS
> server via DHCP for Win95 clients.
option netbios-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
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From: QuestionExchange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPTP or IPSec Liunx VPN
Date: 12 Aug 1999 1:0:59 GMT
> I am aware of PoPToP PPTP server for Linux, but am unaware
> of any IPSec server. Is there any info out there of an IPSec
> server for Virtual Private Networking? The reason I ask is
> because more and more of the employees at work are signing up
> for ADSL, and would like to access our LAN over the Internet.
> Any pointers to web pages or docs is much appreciated!
> Thanks in advance,
should have plenty of information for IPSec in linux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Knott)
Subject: REXEC & Linux
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:51:55 -0400
Reply-To: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have being trying unsuccessfully to get rexec to work on Linux. I
would like to be able to use rexec on OS/2 to start apps on Linux, but
I cannot determine how to get Linux to respond. I can use the OS/2
rexec to work with the OS/2 rexecd, but I cannot get either OS/2 or
Linux rexec to work with Linux rexecd. The rexec command is "rexec
<remote host> -l <userid> -p <password> <command>. The user does have
an ID on the target Linux system and is in the /etc/passwd file. I
have also tried using a netrc file on both ends, along with a
hosts.equiv file on the target system. Nothing I can think of produces
any results. When I issue the command, there is no resonse of any
kind shown at the prompt. I have to enter ^C to break the rexec
command. I've tried it on both Slackware and Mandrake versions of
Linux.
Any ideas?
tnx jk
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:38:39 -0600
From: Michael Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can Linux "see" Win95 drive/folders? How?
With Samba I have been able to make my W95 box "see" the Linux box
(folders, sub-f, files), but how do you get the Linux machine to see
drives/folders/files on the W95 machine?? I have tried everything I can
think of/read about. Many thanks for any suggestions.
P.S.:
W95 SR2 box:
P75, 1.2G hd, 32M RAM, Acer ALN-101 ethernet cd
Linux RH 5.1 box:
486DX4-100, 250M Pri hd, 125M hd as swap, 16M RAM, NE2000 ethernet cd
They are the only machines on this at-home network.
Again, many thanks for any ideas...
Ciao
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From: "Ramaswamy Krishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: @home and internet connections thru cable
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 23:39:57 GMT
Hi :
I have been using Linux for a couple of years. I recently obtained cable
access to @home in Toronto Ontario. My problem is that I have never
configured a network card and my people at work are all NT types who were
unable/unwilling to help. So far as I understand, I am assigned a dynamic
IP address. But I have not seen it change the last month. Is there any
HOWTO anywhere on this? I also know that I have a weird computer name such
as cr123456-b. Is there anyone who can help me starting from scratch? I
notice that there have been snippets about computer names etc. in this
newsgroup.
Many thanks. This was the one missing item on my list. If I can configure
this properly, I plan to remove Windows from my machine.
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From: "mikes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Respawning too fast
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:59:02 -0500
Reply-To: "mikes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have cancelled a post in this topic, because I was in partial error.
In a previos post, I wrote:
**** Begin partial error ****
I have a solution that worked for at least one of my Linux machines (my
modemless SMB server). I found out that that getty (or is it uugetty?) had a
problem with case sensitivity.
In Paul Sery's Linux Network Toolkit (ISBN 0-7645-3146-8) page 498 says to
add:
s0:3456:respawn:/sbin/uugetty ttyS0 3840 vt100
That line will cause respawning errors until you correct it. It should
read:
s0:3456:respawn:/sbin/uugetty ttyS0 3840 VT100
Note the caps in VT100.
According to the Howto:
http://www.yggdrasil.com/bible/HOWTO-src/Serial-HOWTO.html#toc1 It suggests
in part 15.3 that "Using the wrong syntax or device names will cause serious
problems"
Now.. if I can only get the same solution worked out for my firewall. My
firewall is a 486/DX2-66 w/ 510M HDD 32M RAM, and an internal USR 28800
modem. Even though I correct the line in the /etc/inittab file, I still get
respawn errors Section 15.3 of the aforementioned Howto suggests "Make sure
your modem is configured correctly"
Any suggestions here? Can I initialize a modem during boot???
-Mike
**** End partial error ****
I say "partial error" because the answer I supplied was somewhat correct,
but did not yield stable results. The new line I added in my /etc/inittab
now reads:
t1:3456:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 DT38400 vt100
My humble apologies to Paul for his correct "typo". The new line indeed
works and is quite stable now. I have successfully connected a terminal
*and* my 3Com Palm III to my SMB Server, and initiated a successful login. I
did get an authentication failure though, *but* the text was very legible.
BTW, I got this answer from:
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/lg/issue29/tag_dumbterm.html
Now, back to my firewall! :)
-Mike
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Subject: Re: Help needed, telnet as a user was failed
Date: 12 Aug 1999 1:13:43 GMT
> How can I telnet into this server as someone besides root? Our
> new
> linux system setup that comes with the server only allows
> telnet as
> root, the error message is:
> Connected to cbtlx1.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Cobalt Linux release 4.0 (Fargo)
> Kernel 2.0.34 on a mips
> login: hwu
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> [root@emslx2 /etc]#
> I am very appreciated if you can give me some suggestions.
> Hanqing Wu
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From: QuestionExchange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RCP errors
Date: 12 Aug 1999 1:14:21 GMT
> Linux box, I intermittently get the following errors...
> On the local side I get the following console message...
> remotehost.domain: Connection reset by peer
> On the remote side I get the following...
> rshd[20621]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] as user: cmd='rcp -p -t
> /foo/bar/'
> Aug 11 12:42:02 host inetd[127]: shell/tcp server failing
> (looping), service
> terminated
> The first 400 or so files get copied just fine. Any ideas?
> --Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent)
Subject: Re: DHCP questions (cable modem)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:43:41 -0400
In article <7nnohc$2o1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Good day all!
>
> I'm using the @Home network. For whatever reason, my provider gives me a new
> IP address every day (or every other day or whatever). My Linux box (RH 6.0,
> 2 NICs, 64mb ram, AMD K6-2 350) is acting as a IP Masq/forwarding box for my
> house and when they change the IP it no longer forwards any traffic. I can
> ping the new address from another PC on the network, but I can't get past it.
>
> Is there anything I should be doing? Is there another way to refresh my route
> tables automatically? (All the other computers inside my network use the
> internal NIC as their gateway).
>
> Anyone with ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance.....
>
>
I set mine up with a static IP address @home said they probably wouldn't
change, but reserve the right to. I'm trying to use DHCP as well with
no luck so far. Check out Yousef Khan's answer to the article "Works
statically, but can't get DHCP working" in this newsgroup, posted July
28.
Vincent
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From: QuestionExchange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP and POP3 connection delays
Date: 12 Aug 1999 1:22:14 GMT
> I have a redhat linux box running on our lan. It's setup as a
> mail ,
> ftp and http server. However when the Win clients on the lan
> try to
> connect to the POP3 port it takes about 2-3 minutes to
> negotiate the
> transfer and then download messages. The same thing happens
> when I try
> to connect using ftp. Locally (at the console) the connections
> function
> at normal speed. Both of these services are controlled by the
> inetd and
> are using tcpd to launch them. My httpd which is running
> standalone
> responds in normal time (1-2 sec) to client requests. I am
> using
> in.qpopper and wu-ftp.
> Does anyone know of something I might be overlooking in my
> setup of
> these services, or is this something I should not be bothered
> about?
> Thanks in advance, William
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux - cable modems
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:03:38 GMT
Hi, I currently have cox@home cable modem service on my windows 98 computer.
I've installed RH 5.2 on a separate partition so my computer dual boots.
Now I plan to hook up my cable modem service to my Linux OS. What do I need
to protect my computer from the internet? And where should I go to find
documentation on how to go about it? Why don't I need "protection" when
using windows is also something I'm curious about.
Thanks a lot!
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Subject: Re: Need help, please -> LINUX Routing Problems ????
Date: 12 Aug 1999 1:1:39 GMT
> ls, the following message returns:
> cannot connect to 192.168.0.91 (only to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
> 192.168.0.91 is the machine where started the ftp client and
> the
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx adress
> is the ip, my provider gave my dynamiclly (ip of the route
> machine).
> does somebody know, what's wrong ????
> please help, and sorry about my taste english
> marco siciliano
then do a 'route add default xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' to correct
address. Double check route table and move on. The actual
default router your ISP is using should not change. Determine
what it is and change the rc set-up files to reflect correct
gateway.
Good Luck..
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From: "Seth" <smanley< no spam >together.net>
Subject: Re: FTP and POP3 connection delays
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 21:03:53 -0400
William Halfond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> I have a redhat linux box running on our lan. It's setup as a mail ,
> ftp and http server. However when the Win clients on the lan try to
> connect to the POP3 port it takes about 2-3 minutes to negotiate the
...[snip]
> Does anyone know of something I might be overlooking in my setup of
> these services, or is this something I should not be bothered about?
> Thanks in advance, William
>
Usually this sort of thing will happen when internet name resolution is not
working
properly. Reason: some protocols like to do a reverse lookup to convert an
IP
to a host name before continuing. On the linux box, do one of the
following:
1) configure dns for your lan,
either on the linux box itself (if using static ip's) or on an NT server (if
using
dynamic ip's) and tell NT DNS to use the WINS database to resolve names.
2) edit the /etc/hosts file and add the host/ip entries for all the clients
(if you
use static ip addresses)
Then, in either case, edit your /etc/resolv.conf file to indicate which
method(s)
you are implementing. There are probably other ways (I've read that
dynamic dns is also available for linux for use with DHCP clients), but
these
are the most common.
FYI, this topic is VERY common...next time try using www.deja.com and
searching all the news groups, past and present articles!
-S
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From: Gerald Pollack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: smbmount: netbios name?
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:47:25 GMT
Note: the smbmount version # is 2.0.1-4, not 2.0.4.
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Dept. of Biology, McGill University
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From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: @home and internet connections thru cable
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:28:43 GMT
Ramaswamy Krishnan wrote:
>
> Hi :
>
> I have been using Linux for a couple of years. I recently obtained cable
> access to @home in Toronto Ontario. My problem is that I have never
> configured a network card and my people at work are all NT types who were
> unable/unwilling to help. So far as I understand, I am assigned a dynamic
> IP address. But I have not seen it change the last month. Is there any
> HOWTO anywhere on this? I also know that I have a weird computer name such
> as cr123456-b. Is there anyone who can help me starting from scratch? I
> notice that there have been snippets about computer names etc. in this
> newsgroup.
Hi,
First, you have to enable support in your kernel for networking and for
your network card. You might check out the kernel HOWTO. If it is done,
reboot your system and check the bootup messages if it recognizes the
card. On my system, it looks like this:
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 c0 df 50 49 9a
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 10.
Next, you have to setup the networking interface. The relevant commands
for this are
ifconfig and route. However, most ditributions (or maybe all, but who
knows all of them...) have some easier ways to configure the networking
interface. For RedHat, it is called netcfg. There is also linuxconf or
netconfig. When you subscribed to the cable, you should have got a piece
of paper with the necessary info. You can use either dhcp, or easier,
simply type in the IP address, network mask, default gateway,
nameservers, hostname, domain name, etc. For me, in British Columbia
with Rogers (same as you), all is included on the paper. If yoy setup
everything correctly, (it is pretty easy), then you should check some
hosts on the net with ping and hopefully it will give you the expected
answer.
Good Luck, Vilmos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: IP Forwarding/Redirecting to a Proxy?
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:09:46 GMT
Hi
I'm trying to configure a gateway to the 'net. I have set up
masquarading and it works fine.
I would like to add a little 'goodie' to my setup, however. My network
is sitting behind an http proxy, and that means that EVERY installation
of ANY application that uses http must know about the proxy. It seems
to me however, that it should be possible to set up my gateway to
automatically ask the proxy to deliver the files without the end-user
(internal computer) having to know about it.
I have looked through the How-To's, but I couldn't find an answer to
how to do this. There is some talk of 'transparent proxies' but it
seems to me that they are talking about proxies running on the gateway,
and not external proxies that are behind the gateway (or in front of
it, if looking from outside world's perspective).
Does anybody know if this is possible and if so, how to do this?
Thnx
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Subject: Re: Network Slipping Problem
Date: 12 Aug 1999 1:49:58 GMT
> 6.0 (a new installation). I am using IP, samba, and netatalk
> to access
> this server. I have a problem where I can restart the server
> and have
> access to it for anywhere from 2 minutes to 12 hours or so.
> After that
> time, it seems that all network communication is lost. I
> cannot ping
> out or see any clients from the Linux server at all or vice-
> versa unless
> I reboot it. After that, it stays up for awhile until it
> happens again.
> I have replaced all of the cabling and the Ethernet card as
> well as the
> switch that it is plugged into with known good equipment, but
> nothing
> seems to take care of the problem. When I look at the
> interface in Net
> Config, it is showing me that the interface is active. Is
> there
> something else that I should be doing to help solve this
> problem? HELP!
> Scott
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From: QuestionExchange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: named/dns wants network connection on bootup - why?
Date: 12 Aug 1999 1:50:5 GMT
> me with.
> Here's the basic question in case it is something simple.
> Afterwards I have more complete information if it is needed.
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> Basic Problem:
> When my linux box boots up, named starts a connection to
> the internet. Whenever I have named set to start at
> bootup, the linux box makes a connection to the gateway
> machine on my network(a win98 box with dial-up internet)
> and causes a dial-on demand connection to the internet.
> What is the linux box doing? It would seem to me that it
> would not need to make a connection until a client makes a
> dns request of it. Is there something that it is wanting to
> check each time it boots?
> More info:
> I'm testing a linux box in the following environment:
> A windows98 machine has a dial-up connection to the
> internet. It acts as a gateway to the internet for other
> machines on the network.
> I have a linux box(redhat 5.2 with latest bind) which I
> am experimenting with using as a dns server for the local
> network. It is setup to be a caching server for all the
> machines on the network plus as a true nameserver for
> my local domain(registered with internic but not being
> served on the internet by any "live" dns).
> All machines are using 192.168.*.* addresses.
> When the linux box boots up, it causes the win98 machine to
> make a dial-on demand connection to the internet. This is
> only if named is set to run at boot time.
> I can not figure out why named is trying to connect to
> something outside when no one has yet made a query of it.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks much for any help.
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From: QuestionExchange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Seagate IDE tape drive in Linux
Date: 12 Aug 1999 1:50:16 GMT
> I installed a Seagate Surestore IDE tape drive in a server
> running
> Mandrake
> 6.0. On bootup the drive is recognized as hdd. I'm a newbie,
> so can
> anyone
> lead me to the next step, making the system work with the tape
> drive...do I edit
> /etc/fstab? Any help would be much appreciated.....
> Thanks!
> Steve
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Subject: Re: @home and internet connections thru cable
From: Eric deRiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:22:42 GMT
"Clue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I have been using Linux for a couple of years. I recently obtained cable
> > access to @home in Toronto Ontario. My problem is that I have never
> > configured a network card and my people at work are all NT types who were
> > unable/unwilling to help. So far as I understand, I am assigned a dynamic
> > IP address. But I have not seen it change the last month.
>
> I'm in the same situation, except I'm using Cox@Home in Los Angeles.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
I asked @Home about this when I first set up my system: they seemed to
feel that the likelihood of their changing their dynamic IP
assignments was slim enough that setting the IPs as fixed would work
fine. Thus far they've been right: I've been doing that for over a
year and haven't had any problems, even through power outages, service
interruptions, etc. There are people who have their own domain names
hanging off of theirs: some of them seem to have trouble with the
company, and some don't. I imagine it's more what you run on it than
anything else.
e
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From: "D.Krivitsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP Forwarding/Redirecting to a Proxy?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 21:45:42 -0400
One way is to install a transparent proxy on your gateway and to configure
it to connect through the external proxy.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ����� � ��������� <7ot3c4$2ki$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ...
>Hi
>
>I'm trying to configure a gateway to the 'net. I have set up
>masquarading and it works fine.
>
>I would like to add a little 'goodie' to my setup, however. My network
>is sitting behind an http proxy, and that means that EVERY installation
>of ANY application that uses http must know about the proxy. It seems
>to me however, that it should be possible to set up my gateway to
>automatically ask the proxy to deliver the files without the end-user
>(internal computer) having to know about it.
>
>I have looked through the How-To's, but I couldn't find an answer to
>how to do this. There is some talk of 'transparent proxies' but it
>seems to me that they are talking about proxies running on the gateway,
>and not external proxies that are behind the gateway (or in front of
>it, if looking from outside world's perspective).
>
>Does anybody know if this is possible and if so, how to do this?
>
>Thnx
>
>m
>
>
>
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From: "Clue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: @home and internet connections thru cable
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:31:14 GMT
I'm in the same situation, except I'm using Cox@Home in Los Angeles.
Any help would be appreciated.
Ramaswamy Krishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:hRns3.1186$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi :
>
> I have been using Linux for a couple of years. I recently obtained cable
> access to @home in Toronto Ontario. My problem is that I have never
> configured a network card and my people at work are all NT types who were
> unable/unwilling to help. So far as I understand, I am assigned a dynamic
> IP address. But I have not seen it change the last month. Is there any
> HOWTO anywhere on this? I also know that I have a weird computer name
such
> as cr123456-b. Is there anyone who can help me starting from scratch? I
> notice that there have been snippets about computer names etc. in this
> newsgroup.
>
> Many thanks. This was the one missing item on my list. If I can
configure
> this properly, I plan to remove Windows from my machine.
>
>
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