Linux-Networking Digest #233, Volume #12 Sun, 15 Aug 99 13:13:25 EDT
Contents:
Re: Networking Woes (Leon Harris)
Re: No Link light ("Kevin Rosel")
FTP install of RH6.0 on @home network ("brad")
killing a connection (William B. Cattell)
Re: Masqdailer - can't find latest ("George Georgakis")
Need help with Ethernet on Sharp A250 notebook (Edwin TAM)
Re: Mounting ZIP drive ("George Georgakis")
Re: killing a connection ("George Georgakis")
How can i config Linux to be a router? ("geofox")
Re: Home network and cable modem ("Shashank")
Re: Adding a Networking Card ("George Georgakis")
Re: Samba doesn't work!!! (Michael Perry)
Re: PPP negotiation failure (ORRIN)
Re: Please help me! ("Gary W. Sandvik")
Re: term slow when modem connected. ("mikes")
Need help masquerading PPTP VPN with IPChains (Marc)
Re: all networking stops working for no reason (William B. Cattell)
Re: This is really bugging me.: ("Andre")
Re: Cable Modem & hub ("William D. Harrington")
Re: ATM for kernel 2.0? ("Mathias Koerber")
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 10:10:28 +0800
From: Leon Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Networking Woes
Actually, I have had difficulty with linux (rh5.2) not initialising a
3c509 clone pcmcia card properly, and rewriting its MAC to
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. Could I make it work - not bloody likely !!
in the end, I got so desperate, that I added a line to my rc.local
sleep 10
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00aabbccdd11
(a bogus mac, but whatever).
maybe you can grab the real mac address, and do something similar.
ps- I have seen a couple for cards which allow the user to override the
"unique" mac.
strange eh.
hope you can profit from my past misery
:}
leon
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From: "Kevin Rosel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No Link light
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 11:01:18 -0400
It only has an rj45 connector, no coax port on the card.
Vilmos Soti wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Kevin Rosel wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, the nic is a PRO120 100/10 Mbps PCI Bus Fast Ethernet Adapter,
>> although the file to install the Linux driver is called tulip. What
do
>> you mean by checking the media selection?
>
>What type of cabling it uses. Some cards can use more than one cabling
>such as coax or twisted pair. There are cards for which you have to set
>it with a vendor provided utility. Under Linux, you can do it with
>ifconfig (man ifconfig, and look for "media type").
>
>> >> I reboot into linux I get no link light. I can ping my 127.0.0.1
loopback
>> as
>> >> well as my nic 10.10.10.1 No luck hitting my 98 machine with the
>> internet
>> >> connection(10.10.10.2)
>> >> I checked ifconfig and it looks fine. I have the host name info
right.
>
>If you use IP address then the host name info doesn't matter. That
>translates a name to IP address.
>
>Vilmos
>
>--
>Looking for a job in British Columbia.
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From: "brad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FTP install of RH6.0 on @home network
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 14:27:36 GMT
I was wondering if anyone could help me with a small problem I am running
into doing an FTP install (my 486 does'nt have a CD-ROM) on a computer I
wish to use as IP-Masqurading on.
I am using 3Com509b cards (I have disabled the plug and play on them yes
and I know the settings I have asssigned them i.e. IO and IRQ do not
conflict cause windows 98 saw them no problem and connected to the @home
system)
I use a boonet.img floppy to boot the system and then go thought the
questions, selecting in FTP install and then static IP address. Filing out
all my info that both @home and winipcfg gave me about my settings. However
when I put in the FTP site and Directory I get errors. This is where the odd
things start to happen. I usually get a "bad server responce" error but can
also get "unable to connect to server" error. I have yet to get it to
connect to ANYTHING this way. I played with the Path (to the 2nd stage
install image) and one time I did, by putting in the wronge path, got the
modem lights to flash much more vigerously than before before spitting out
the error "could not find file".
I am only working with one NIC in the machine right now in case they were
interfearing with each other, and have swapped cards making sure it was'nt
the card. no luck.
I have hooked up a windows 98 box and it saw both cards (in legacy mode)
and I was able to rin winproxy with them just fine so I know its not the
cards.
Whats odd is that in digging through winipcfg I did get a dhcp server addy.
however if I chose DHCP method of install I get a bad rescponce. (might just
be a dead end)
I would REALLY appreciate any help and NOT have to go to a windows box to
use for my proxy.
(feeling like the only one with this problem ) Brad in San
Diego
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From: William B. Cattell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: killing a connection
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:25:30 GMT
I've been locking down my machine (RH6/cable modem access) and so far, so good.
I noticed the other night that someone had established connections to me. I
used netstat -a to see the connections but couldn't find how to actually break
their connections.
Short of stopping eth0 and restarting it how can I do this?
TIA
Bill
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From: "George Georgakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Masqdailer - can't find latest
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:36:03 GMT
http://w3.cpwright.com/mserver/download/RPMS/
Stephen Torri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I have been trying unsuccessfully to try to get the latest Masqdailer
> (c-mserver...rpm). Where is the website? Is the main site down?
>
> Stephen
>
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From: Edwin TAM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Need help with Ethernet on Sharp A250 notebook
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 23:31:07 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have a Sharp Actius A250 notebook and have installed RedHat 6.0 on it.
So far, none of the built-in peripherials works except the video, which
I managed to get 800x600 true color.
However, I can't get neither the modem, sound nor Network to work. It
has a Realtek RTL8139A PCI Fast Ethernet NIC built-in and I have tried
the version 1.80a driver (written by Donald Becker) rtl8139.c without luck.
Whenever I try to 'ifconfig eth0 up', it gives me the following message:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable
I can ping localhost and ping the self IP address and has no problem,
but the eth0 interface is never up and running.
I can live without its sound nor modem, but the LAN is a must.
Thanks a lot,
Edwin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "George Georgakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting ZIP drive
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:37:48 GMT
Add "users" as an option to the zip entry in your /etc/fstab file.
George
Stefan Frings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
Hello,
If I mount my zip drive (mount /dev/sda1 /zip �t vfat) only root has
got write access. The directory /zip has rwx for all. How can I set
rwx for all users?
My cdrom works fine but not the zip drive. I do not understand this.
I use Windows 98 vfat on the zip drive. Original zip disks use
/dev/sda3 but I reformatted them do /dev/sda1 so I am able to boot
them.
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From: "George Georgakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: killing a connection
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:43:16 GMT
If you have ipfwadm, try something like:
ipfwadm -I -a deny -S (the.IP.address.to.block)/32 -D 0.0.0.0/0 -o
George
William B. Cattell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<934730731.1601392698@news>...
> I've been locking down my machine (RH6/cable modem access) and so far, so
good.
> I noticed the other night that someone had established connections to
me. I
> used netstat -a to see the connections but couldn't find how to actually
break
> their connections.
>
> Short of stopping eth0 and restarting it how can I do this?
>
> TIA
>
> Bill
>
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From: "geofox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How can i config Linux to be a router?
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 23:48:55 +0800
Hi,
I want to change my linux box to be a router!
Any ideas is welcome!!!
Thanks,
geofox
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From: "Shashank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.solaris.x86,athome.users-general,athome.users-unix,athome.users-win95,cableinet.cable_modems,comp.os.ms-windows.networking
Subject: Re: Home network and cable modem
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 09:58:26 -0500
Not sure this is a solution to your problem.
There is software available (or some kind of settings) for sharing INTERNET
ACCESS. Checkout www.homepcnetwork.com.
Hope it helps.
Shashank
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From: "George Georgakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adding a Networking Card
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:51:31 GMT
One of the things you should always retain a copy of is the
/usr/src/linux/.config file. It's created when you make config or
menuconfig, or xconfig), and lists all the items in the kernel and all the
modules to be attached. If reinstalling, copy the .config file into that
directory, and make your original kernel/modules combination again.
As for your problem, you've committed a cardinal sin when asking for help.
We don't know what you have there.
What kind of card is it?
Finally, the file you're thinking of is probably /etc/conf.modules.
George
Suddn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<Dvut3.4876$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> My networking card isn't working even after I have compiled the module
and
> used linuxconf and netcfg to set it up.
>
> The card fails to come up at boot time and I can't force it to work with
the
> modprobe command. I seem to remember that there is a file where I must
> define eth0 as an alias. Can anyone tell me what file that is?
>
> If you have any other ideas why the damn thing won't work please let me
> know. (I had it working but I had to reinstall Linux and now I can't
seem
> to get it to work.)
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Samba doesn't work!!!
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:47:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 00:16:31 +0000, Jack Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Linux workstation: RH 5.0, kernel 2.2.1, Samba 2.0.4b, machine name is
>'linux', IP address is '192.168.0.1'
>Win98 workstation, machine name is 'win98', IP address is '192.168.0.2'
>
>Install and config Samba in Linux workstation are smooth, and using
>'smbclient -L linux' to test in the LInux workstation side is OK. But
>it prompt to input a password, when I just hit enter, it displays
>correct information.
>
>The 'lmhosts' file in c:\windows of win98 machine contains one line:
>192.168.0.1 linux
>
>But when I try to test on the win98 side, I issue: 'net view \\linux',
>the error message is:
>
>"Error 86: the specified network password is not correct. TYpe the
>correct password, or contact your network administrator for more
>information."
>
>The username and password used to log on win98 machine are one existing
>account in my Linux machine. The other network functions work well, such
>as: 'ping', 'IP masquerading', 'telnet', 'ftp', etc
>
>Any idea or suggestions can help me out? Thanks!!!!
>
>PLease also email me.
>
>
>
The redirector in win98 changed and basically broke the acceptance of
passwords. You can even enter the correct password and win98 will not
accept it. Two solutions. There is a registry hack for 98 and NT which
will allow you to use plain text passwords and thus move up to user level
security or you can implement passwords on your linux box that are
encrypted. I always have done the 98 registry hack here at the house.
I would get the Learn Samba in 24 hours book for a good explanation on all
this. Helped me a lot. The samba mailing list is a good resource also.
--
Michael Perry - "No one can give you wiser advice
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .o O than yourself" -Cicero
' )
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\ _) where happiness is a state of foot.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ORRIN)
Subject: Re: PPP negotiation failure
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:49:57 GMT
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 08:29:06 +0100, "Andrew Taylor"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Check your modem init string.
Did that... same string that works in DOS/Windows to the same ISP.
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From: "Gary W. Sandvik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.config
Subject: Re: Please help me!
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 10:52:50 -0500
Reply-To: "Gary W. Sandvik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
Amir, if I understand your questions properly then your mount point does not
exist at this time since you have not done a Linux install. When you boot
the boot disk for the install for a new OS install just default to the
bootdisk by pressing return. You will then be queried for the rootdisk to be
swappped with the bootdisk.
Once you are up login as root then do a FDISK to setup the Linux partition.
This is not that cryptic but will allow you set the partition sizes as you
desire. There are a lot of utilities out in Linuxland to allow you different
ways to do this but Fdisk is not that complicated. Once you have this done
then you can exit fdisk then do your setup.
Welcome to Linuxland!
--
Regards and God Speed,
Gary
Gary W. Sandvik
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
309-676-0224 (fax)
AMir Saradzic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I bought Linux-Mandrake 6.0. Which comes with 3 cd-disks a floppy disk and
> User guide.
> I have 4.3 Gb hard disk with two particion (FAT 16)on it. On the first one
> I have installed Windows 95 and second particion is not formated at all.
> When I boot my system with Linux Boot disk and when I get to the point to
> choose particion I get lost! It ask me to enter MOUNT POINT for choosen
> particion and in the manual and on the Internet I could not find anything
> about MOUNT POINT?? I can't believe, because this looks big problem for me
> and I am preaty sure many people get stuck at this point. Please help me
to
> solve this problem. I can't wait to start using Linux.
> Thank you very much, I am looking forward on your coperation.
>
> ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: "mikes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: term slow when modem connected.
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 10:29:35 -0500
Reply-To: "mikes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The reason behind a MSD-style program is to be able to accurately
troubleshoot hardware. I did find that Linuxconf, and /var/log/messages were
helpful, but it would helpful if all of this available under one command.
The trouble I was having last night was due to the fact that I had a modem,
ttyS0, *and* my eth0 all using IRQ3. I overlooked my ether card as being a
potential source of the entire problem. I went through and reconfigured the
hardware this morning, and now everything runs much, much better. Linuxconf
did not seem to accurately report my IRQ at first, until I adjusted the
parameters to point it out to the proper IRQ.
Mike
Malware wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>What would be the use of a MSD-style program? - You can't configure the
>serial port to another IRQ with it either. If you have nothing connected
>to COM2 you could go to switch COM3 to interrupt 3 by BIOS, jumpers or
>however it is provided. Use setserial to tell Linux COM3 does use this
>IRQ now.
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:07:50 -0400
From: Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Need help masquerading PPTP VPN with IPChains
I'm trying to masquerade PPTP (NT Dial Up Networking) through my Linux
box using IPChains. I'm using 2.2.10 with the VPN patch installed. I
know that the DUN works if the NT box is attached directly to the
intenet and that my Linux box is capable of masquerading everything else
I need. Anybody have any ideas on how to fix this problem? Below is
cut from my /var/log/messages file:
192.168.1.2 is my NT box using dialup networking pptp
209.183.196.1 is my VPN server
216.181.87.4 is my linux box with IP Chains
Aug 14 15:38:40 www kernel: ip_masq_pptp_tcp(): OUT_CALL_REQUEST
192.168.1.2 -> 209.183.196.1 CID=0 MCID=EE6A
Aug 14 15:38:40 www kernel: ip_masq_pptp_tcp(): OUT_CALL_REPLY
192.168.1.2 -> 209.183.196.1 CID=0 MCID=EE6A
Aug 14 15:38:40 www kernel: ip_demasq_gre(): 209.183.196.1 ->
216.181.87.4 CID=0 no masq table, discarding
Aug 14 15:38:43 www last message repeated 4 times
Aug 14 15:38:45 www kernel: ip_masq_pptp_tcp(): CALL_DISCONNECT_NOTIFY
192.168.1.2 -> 209.183.196.1 CID=0 MCID=EE6A
Thanks!
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From: William B. Cattell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: all networking stops working for no reason
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:19:58 GMT
I have an Acer Aspire/P120 running RH6 that does the same thing (stops
communicating). I run a telnet session into it and leave top runing just to
keep it going. As you did - I first thought bad hardware so I replaced the NIC
- it still happened. Since seeing your post I'm starting to think it's RH6
except the same thing happens when the Acer is an intraNetWare server.
The search continues...
Bill
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Scott Shoemaker wrote:
>Please Help!!! I am running RH 6.0 on a new Intel box that I have not
>put into production use yet, because I have a problem where I am unable
>to keep the server on the network for an extended period of time. From
>the point that the server starts it will stay on the network from a few
>minutes to a few hours, and then mysteriously drops ALL network access.
> I have tried replacing all of the cabling and the NIC in the server and
>I still have the same result. I even went as far to swap out the
>network switch that I was using. I can reboot the server and it will
>stay up for awhile. After doing some testing, I have found that as long
>as the server seems to be doing something on the network, that it tends
>to stay up longer. I.E. -- I set up a continuous ping to the gateway
>router and found that the server stayed up much longer (all night) than
>if it were sitting doing nothing.
>
>Here is some additional information.
>
>1. I am running samba and netatalk which both seem to be working fine
>when the server has not dropped access.
>
>2. When the server slips off of the network, it disappears from the
>Apple network, and I am unable to ping the server from a client or vice
>versa via TCP/IP. I am able to ping the server from the server itself,
>and the Network Configurator says that the interface is active. The
>activity lights on the both ethernet cards that I have tried to use on
>this server do not flash after the network access hangs up.
>
>3. When I do a netstat -r from the server, I see the same information
>before and after it hangs, but after it hangs, the last line in the
>table (the default gateway) takes a little longer to show up sometimes
>(but it eventually does). It looks like the following:
>
>destination gateway genmask flags mss window irtt iface
>198.213.30.9 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
>198.213.30.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
>127.0.0.1 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 l0
>default 198.213.30.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
>
>4. I am having no other trouble with any of the other devices (about 75
>devices) on the same network.
>
>I am really confused as to why this is happening and what to try next.
>I was unable to find any documentation on this particular issue and I
>would appreciate any input.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help!
>
>Scott
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "Andre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: This is really bugging me.:
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:48:33 -0400
Thanks everybody,
I got it working.
I just learned the difference between forwarding and masquerading.
The Nt server was forwarding the packets from inside the networks (
192.168.x) and the routing table in the cisco was not ready for those
addresses, because they are not legal internet addresses.
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From: "William D. Harrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable Modem & hub
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 09:27:41 -0700
Tad, does that mean we don't have to use a Linux box with IP masquerading in
between the cable modem and hub to allow other clients to get out to
internet?
Thanks,
Willie H.
Lawrence Bacon wrote:
> Tad wrote:
> >
> > Yes. We use the Motorola cable modem with our hub. You have to use the
> > uplink port on the hub, though, unless you have a cross-over cable.
> >
> > Tad
> Thanks for the info.
> Sorry for the late reply @home strikes again.
>
> Larry
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From: "Mathias Koerber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATM for kernel 2.0?
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 00:15:54 +0800
Ok, Ihave found the frle-0.22 driver, which should work with a 2.0 kernel,
BUT:
There is *no* documentation how to install the driver source files into the
kernel
(and makefile), and how to configure its use.
The atm-0.61 package does not talk at all about 2.0 kernels, although the
additional info webpage (http://icawww1.epfl.ch/linux-atm/info.html) says a
bit
about 2.0 kernels.
So, does someone have some documentation how to build the ForeRunnerLE25
support for a 2.0.36 kernel? I don't think Ineed the full ATM functionality,
just CLIP and/or
LANE may do...
thanks
Mathias Koerber wrote in message <7p6jjv$6sn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
|Is there ATM support (for the ForeRunner LE 25 card) for Kernels 2.0.36 or
|thereabouts,
|or do I have to upgrade to 2.2 or even 2.3?
|
|TiA
|Mathas
|
|
|
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