Linux-Networking Digest #301, Volume #12 Fri, 20 Aug 99 11:13:30 EDT
Contents:
Re: DLINK NIC for Mandrake (Wayne Larmon)
help with distributed.net RC5 install on Redhat 6 (newbie) ("Quinn")
Re: RH6, TP600 and PCMCIA IBM TR 16/4 Turbo (Paul Thomson)
Help -- sendmail do not relay ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Mail Servers (Thomas Delaet)
mgetty question (Leonard Hardy)
Re: Is Integrated Ethernet Card on Compaq Deskpro 5133 Linux Compatible? ("doug
maine")
Re: 21143 tulip chipset problem -- need help ("L. Mark Pilant")
Re: Ping Timeout? (Eran Dvey-Aharon)
Dail-up mail checks with ISDN router (Rob)
Re: WhereToFind? Socket 7 motherboard with onboard ethernet, sound, (Byron A Jeff)
Problem to use IPCHAINS with 4 NIC and 4 ethernets ("Ivano Colella")
sendmail relaying external mail (Mathias Fuerlinger)
knfsd not giving Vers 3 or TCP (James Vincent)
Problems using SWAT ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Why not C++ (Johan Kullstam)
Re: DSL Dialup (Atlanta and vicinity) ("Tim Hall")
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From: Wayne Larmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: DLINK NIC for Mandrake
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:27:25 -0400
Brian wrote:
>
> Try the tulip driver.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Brian
via-rhine should work, but some distros had an error where via-rhine
didn't work during the initial install. Red Hat 6.0 had this error with
their first 6.0 boot disk. I don't know if Mandrake 6.0 has the same
problem.
In any event you should be able to get a D-Link 530TX to work with
Mandrake 6.0 by selecting the via-rhine kernel module once you get it
installed. You shouldn't have to compile anything. I was able to get
my 530s to work with Mandrake 6.0.
Use linuxconf/Config/Networking/Client tasks/Basic Host information to
set the 530's parameters. You might have to type in 'via-rhine' because
it might not show up in the drop down selection box.
Making Ethernet Adapters Work with Linux
http://www.scrounge.org/linux/nics.htm
Using Linux with a Cable Modem
http://www.scrounge.org/linux/cablemodem.html
Wayne Larmon
http://www.scrounge.org/
>
> Christopher Lu wrote in message ...
> >Hi, I just installed Mandrake 6 on my computer which has a D-Link DFE-530TX
> >NIC for @home service. During installation I was asked whether I want to
> >set up networking. I answered yes then I chose "via rhine." The
> >installation then says that it can not detect the device anywhere on my
> >computer. How should I go about setting up my NIC. I have downloaded the
> >via-rhine.c file if that's needed. But seeing that Mandrake actually
> >supports via rhine is there an easy way to set up my system so I can get
> >back on the net thru @home?
> >
> >Please be as detailed as you can be when answering as I am NEW to linux.
> >Thanks a lot in advance!
> >
> >
> >
> >
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From: "Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: help with distributed.net RC5 install on Redhat 6 (newbie)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:33:28 -0400
I am RedHat 6 Newbie..install is good and gnome works fine ....PII400 128MB
RAM Voodoo3 3000
I have used distributed.net in windows and would like to run in Linux
How do you know which version I should Install?
[glibc? libc? what is the difference?]
Is there a RPM version?
Following instructions for Voodoo3 I came across a line which wanted you to
check the version of glib...its 2.1....so I figured I try to download the
glibc version of RC5....I created a folder in the root directory called
/install exploded it and tried to install, however I get a error.....I
couldnt find any info on www.linuxnewbie.com nor distributed.net so I am
posting here.
What folder should I put downloads in?
Thank you for your time
Quinn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Thomson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Re: RH6, TP600 and PCMCIA IBM TR 16/4 Turbo
Date: 20 Aug 1999 07:32:06 -0500
I have pretty much the same setup, TP600e, 2.2.10, PCMCIA 3.0.13. The
only things I could suggest are running netcfg and telling the TR card
which IRQ to use (I used 10), and the last line of my
/etc/pcmcia/config.opts reads like this:
module "ibmtr_cs" opts "mmiobase=0xd0000 srambase=0xd8000"
Using a Turbo card, btw....
Paul Thomson
IBM Global Sevices
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:30:59 GMT, Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have recently reloaded RH6.0 on an IBM Thinkpad600, compiled 2.2.10
>kernel, and added the PCMCIA 3.0.14 drivers, lib, utils, and teh tr225.gz
>files to teh /pcmcia_3_0_14/clients directory.
>
>When I boot, the Delaying tr0 fails, but PCMCIA starts sucessfully with two
>beeps. When I issue a ifconfig -a , I see both lo and tr0, but when I use
>netconf to set the ip, netmask, gw, etc., the mahcine hangs during shutdown
>while trying to stop tr0.
>
>Any idea's? When I ping now, I get "network unreachable"
>
>Thanks much!
>Christopher
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help -- sendmail do not relay
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 12:17:55 GMT
Hi folks,
I just started to learn Linux and today I try to configure sendmail but
got an error --- "we do not relay".
The hostname of the Linux is aquarius. Domain is cheetah.com.au. The
mail server is the same Linux machine. I set up DNS (again on the same
Linux machine) OK and nslookup works fine.
I use default sendmail.cf (no change on the original defaults).
My problem is when I send mail to myself (from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]), I will get the "we do not relay" error message.
However, if I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as recipient name, the
mail sends and I can retrieve the mail using the Outlook Express PC.
What has gone wrong.
The sendmail comes with Redhat Linux 5.2.
Here is the telnet screen capture.
===================================================================
220 aquarius.cheetah.com.au ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.7/8.8.7; Fri, 20 Aug
1999 16:27:1
0 +1000
helo cheetah.com.au
250 aquarius.cheetah.com.au Hello [172.16.1.30], pleased to meet you
mail from:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender ok
rcpt to:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
551 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... we do not relay
rcpt to:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Recipient ok
data
testing....
.
quit
Regards,
Roger Luk
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From: Thomas Delaet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mail Servers
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:32:31 +0200
Hi everyone,
I have a cable modem at home and I have successfully set-up
Ip-Masquearing for my internal network (which are 2 Win9x and 1 Linux
PC).
On my router (which has 2 network cards) I have already set up an FTP
Server.
Now I would like to set up an POP3 and an SMTP Server (with Communigate
Pro)
But the problem is my cable provider blocks all incoming ports under
1024 and outgoing ports 80 and 25.
Is there someway to specifiy other ports for an SMTP and POP3 (or IMAP)
server ?
The thing is that I want to make as many mailaddresses as i want too.
Eventually i can use the smtp server of my provider.
Or can I do something else for letting it work ?
Thanks in advance for any help !
Kind regards,
Thomas Delaet
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From: Leonard Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mgetty question
Date: 20 Aug 1999 13:36:37 GMT
I have tried to use xringd to dial my machine with a specific ring
sequence and have a connection started to my ISP, this works sometimes
but is unreliable.
I have heard that mgetty can do the same thing?? Does anyone have sample
configuration files that work?
Thanks, Len
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From: "doug maine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Integrated Ethernet Card on Compaq Deskpro 5133 Linux Compatible?
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:53:28 -0400
The Deskpro 5133 uses an integrates Netflex-2 Enet/PCI network controller. I
haven't used this one before on linux but if it's the same as the netflex-3
try the tlan.0 driver.
Drew wrote in message ...
>I'm thinking of picking up a Compaq Deskpro 5133 with an Integrated 32-Bit
>PCI Ethernet Controller. Does anyone know if this integrated Ethernet card
>is Linux compatible? I'm on a student's budget and I don't want to spend
>more than I have to. Thanks.
>
>Drew
>
>California
>
>
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From: "L. Mark Pilant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 21143 tulip chipset problem -- need help
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:39:27 -0400
Nilang,
As I understand it, it is possible to force the state of the tulip
chip by setting the appropriate options in the /etc/conf.modules
file. You will probably see something like:
alias eth0 tulip
in the file. Simply add the line:
options tulip options=n
where 'n' is determined using the information below. BTW, you can
also add:
debug=n
to enable driver debugging. (I added debug=6 to see what all was
going on in the driver.)
If you take a look at the web page:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html
it lists the various options and the corresponding media selection.
For 10Mbs, it would appear a value of 1, 4, 9, 10, or 12 would be
appropriate. This mostly would depend upon whether you are using
thinwire or twisted pair for the interconnects.
I do have to add a caveat here: I haven't been able to get the NIC
(tulip based) on my PC to work as yet. That means all of the above
is what I expect is *supposed* to happen :-)
(The problem I'm having is the driver fails to negotiate the
connection [status 0x000000c6, 0x000000c7, or 0x000020c7] for
the twisted pair interconnect, and falls back to 100baseT which
mails miserably because the network doesn't support it.)
Good luck.
- Mark
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eran Dvey-Aharon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ping Timeout?
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 19:20:44 +0300
Bill Pitz wrote:
> Ok, I'm really puzzled here. Is there a simple flag to add onto the
> Linux (specifically, RH 6.0) to make it timeout after a given amount
> of time? What I really want to do is run it with, say, '-c 3' and
> time out on each one if there is no response after 2 seconds. It
> does time out on its own if you don't specify a number of packets,
> but then it keeps on running (which I don't want, because I'm writing
> it into a script).
>
> Even the windoze ping program has a timout flag which is why I'm really
> hoping that there is one for Linux.
>
> TIA,
>
> Bill
Hi Bill.
The ping has timeout after 10 seconds. I use it just this way, and when
have no connection simply wait ....
You can modify the ping source to reduce that amount of time if it is
critical to you.
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From: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Dail-up mail checks with ISDN router
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:30:56 GMT
I have a Linux server with some Win95 clients. I want the clients to send
and receive mail over the Linux server. Linux should use the ISDN router to
dial in to our ISP, send our mail out, collect new mail, and close the
connection.
Problem: Since I gave the IP number of the router to my Linux routing
table, Linux dials up as soon as any client sends a mail, Linux dials up
and sends it. How can I tell Linux to only use the ISDN router only
periodically (ie, a I would a modem)?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Byron A Jeff)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: WhereToFind? Socket 7 motherboard with onboard ethernet, sound,
Date: 20 Aug 1999 08:45:39 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Scott Copus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-Exactly Jon. and thanks for the "support". :>
-
-I have an LCD output module that is working great. I am working
-on an input device. I don't know what to go with... infrared remote
-style or a custom serial keypad interface. And I'm looking for a
-slim case now.
-
-I don't know if this is feasable yet, but I think I may try to use DOS
-for the operating system and place it on a bootable CD-ROM with
-all the MP3s on it--to avoid using a hard drive which might be
-susceptable to the heat. I'll probably have to make a large RAM drive
-if any of my programs will need it.
I have this same project in my queue. Here's the URL for a working prototype
build by Bob Blick:
http://bobblick.com/bob/projects/yamm
He put his unit under the seat. Says he's had no heat or vibration problems.
BAJ
-
-I didn't know if it is even possible to *run* Linux from a read-only
-media and just let it use a RAM drive for it's logging, etc. If anybody
-knows if Linux can be ran on read-only medium... let me know!
Absolutely it's possible. Generally only /var needs to be in a ramdisk.
BAJ
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From: "Ivano Colella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem to use IPCHAINS with 4 NIC and 4 ethernets
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:28:29 +0200
Hi,
i must do a critical linux box.
I have 4 lan (3 internal e 1 external)
a) eth0 : 192.168.0.0/24 is the 1st intranet
b) eth1: x.y.w.z/27 is the connection to internet
c) eth2: 172.16.25.0/24 is the 2nd intranet
d) eth3: 172.16.128.0/24 is the 3nd intranet
I need to do this:
a) is the real intranet, on which there are all pc inside office
b) is internet and all people working in a) can access
d) [talk about c) below] is a routed connection with one provider can make
possible to external user
to access our intranet
c) is a cable connection with another office which has an intranet on
address 10.x.x.x/24
there are 3 routers to connect a), c) and d)
my linux box must:
I - permit to users of lan a) to access internet b) and 1 server on lan c)
II - permit to users of lan d) to access the www server on lan c) to open
HTML pages and nothing else.
(If it possible in future we wish to give them an internet access with
pop3 mail)
III - create a firewall in front of internet access b) to prevent external
access
IV - reject access from lan c)
V - limit access from lan d)
Actually from linux box i can see all networks, but a) lan can access only
b) internet.
I have arranged many scripts for rc.firewall
I hope someone give me help, because I've already read everything about
IPCHAINS & Co, but all
examples talk about max 2 NIC and 1 PPP access
Thanks
Francesco Saverio Giudice
Please reply at this ng and cc to my personal address [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mathias Fuerlinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: sendmail relaying external mail
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:07:45 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi !!! please help - Sendmail Relaying Problem -
I'm running a Linux (suse) WebServer (apache 1.3.4)
with 5 Virtual Domains.
Everything works fine !
>From now on I want to take care about mail.
Forwarding and receiving is no problem.
Sending to the 5 'local' Domains is no problem.
Sending Mail to Domains on WAN reports the following error-msg:
RELAYING to host [EMAIL PROTECTED] not allowed.
How can I solve this problem.
(when I put ".com "in /etc/mail/relay-domains file, mail works fine even
on WAN !
but it can't be the solution to put .de, .net, .org .... etc.in the
relay-domains file
- any solutions ?)
Thanks in advance
from Mathias Fuerlinger
Stuttgart, Germany
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(comp.os.linux.networking, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.mail.sendmail,
de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Vincent)
Subject: knfsd not giving Vers 3 or TCP
Date: 20 Aug 1999 13:27:40 GMT
Hello,
I have installed knfsd-1.4.6-2.i386.rpm and
knfsd-clients-1.4.6-2.i386.rpm under RedHat 6.0 (2.2.25) expecting to be able to
use NFS vers over TCP. After restarting nfs services it seens only NFS vers 2 is
available and only over UDP. Is there some other thing that must be done? The
only changes I've made (other than installing the rpms) was to remove the
--no-nfs-version 3 option frmo the rpc.mountd startup in init.d/nfs. Any help is
appreciated.
Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problems using SWAT
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 12:58:03 GMT
I have just upgraded from RH 5.2 to RH 6.0 (the
brazilian Conectiva 4.0 release). I was able to
use SWAT before the upgrade but now I get a
message:
sh: /usr/bin/lpstat: Arquivo ou diret�rio n�o
encontrado sh: /usr/bin/lpstat: Arquivo ou
diret�rio n�o encontrado HTTP/1.0 401
Authorization Required WWW-Authenticate: Basic
realm="SWAT" Connection: close Content-Type:
text/html
401 Authorization Required
You must be authenticated to use this service
(Arquivo ou diret�rio n�o encontrado = portuguese
for file or directory not found)
I obviously don't have the lpstat file in /usr/bin
nor anywhere else. What does it do? Why is Swat
complaining about the lack of this file?
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Why not C++
Date: 20 Aug 1999 09:25:08 -0400
David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Johan Kullstam wrote:
> >
> > true enough. however, mis- or dangerous- usage should be slightly
> > more awkward than safe usage. this is not so with C/C++.
>
> I think you are still asking for the impossible.
no. other languages do this.
> > it often takes more work to look at return values, errno and catch
> > exceptions than it does to simply ignore them.
>
> It always takes more work to deal with something than to
> ignore it.
> > in C the default
> > handler is no handler at all.
>
> I'm not sure I follow you, but I don't think this has anything to do
> with the language. In C, there is no notion of a 'handler', is
> there?
the signal system is a handler. by default, most signals interrupt
your program and kill it (think kill or ^C). you can change this
behavior by explicitly giving a handler. this handler can be
something that just ignores it.
it takes more work to ignore a sig-int than it does to just let ^C
terminate your program. the two lines you need to ignore (one
#include <signal.h> and one signal(SIG_INT,SIG_IGN);) are not hard to
type, but unless you want it, you don't type it.
consider a new function called `writeh' which is just like the libc
write but when it fails due to say disk being full, it would, by
default, print a line explaining that disk is full and terminate your
program. a user could override this and make it ignore it or handle
through an extra argument.
writeh(array, size, filedescriptor, handler)
where handler is an optional argument where by default, handler
would be print appropriate error text to stderr (e.g., disk full
error) and terminate the program.
most of the time, you'd use
writeh(array, size, filedescriptor);
which would give a nice error text.
to ignore, give NULL as the handler.
writeh(array, size, fd, NULL);
and it would be nice to be able put in a goto of some sort to do
something useful.
writeh(array, size, fd, goto disk_full);
and failed writes could jump to some recovery code.
this is framed as more a libc than C grammar issue, but one
could alter both in order to make things easier. the last one in
particular, would require new C grammar rules.
for effeciency, perhaps have a compiler option about safety. this way
kernels could run with safety off and no checks. and you could debug
a program by turning safety on. other languages do this. C doesn't.
> > C++ helps somewhat but i still find it
> > a royal pain in the ass to check and handle everything.
> Yes, it is a royal pain in the ass to religiously check for
> everything that might go wrong with everything that you
> do. _In_any_language_
it might be nice to have functions check for stuff automatically and
by default unless told otherwise. then it wouldn't be such a royal
pain. computers are great at filling the details. they don't get
tired of repitition. let the computer do the religious checking!
> It seems to be reality that you are upset with, not any particular
> language. :)
no. it's C and C way of doing things i am upset with.
> > i seem
> > especially prone to extra calls to dtors for my classes. many people
> > (myself included) assume they have disk space and do not always check
> > fwrite or putc.
>
> These things can all easily be solved if they bother you. If you don't
> like fwrite or putc, don't use them. Make your own functions that always
> check these things and call them. But you'll find that it's hard to make
> them, because what you do in case of the errors varies with how you are
> using the functions. You really do have to do one of two things:
>
> 1) Ignore the error cases and hope for the best, or
>
> 2) Consider every possible error case at every step and code the right
> behavior.
> Now, you can do either in C or C++. What is the third option?
3) terminate program on error unless you override by explicitly saying
you want to ignore problems or providing some recovery.
when a disk write fails, do you really want to continue blithely on
in ignorance of losing data? is this a good default behavior?
4) like lisp, you can ask the user what they wish to do.
--
johan kullstam
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From: "Tim Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: DSL Dialup (Atlanta and vicinity)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:16:37 -0400
Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> This may be off topic. However, I have a friend who has no connection
> to the Internet and resides in the out skirt of the city of Atlanta
> would like to put his business on the Internet. He already has a nic
> sub-domain for his company. He insists on using Linux as his main WEB,
> DNS, sQL, and some other servers. What he would like to know is the
> pros and cons of having a DSL connection/service provided by a local ISP
> as compared to the local phone company (Bell South) that also provides a
> DSL service.
>
> Any comment is certainly a welcome.
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> PS> Remove the "4" from e-mail address to respond.
I just had a DSL connection installed. When I was looking for providers I
called Bell Atlantic (which had by far the cheapest service) and was told I
was too far from the central office for service.
I then contactd Verio. They use equipment different from BA and could
provide service to my location. They quoted me DSL 416KB service and would
handle the installation of a new phone line.
What a nightmare this turned out to be. Instead of a 3 week installation
time, it took 11 weeks to get service. I turns out that Verio uses
Northpoint Communications to handle the data connection while Verio serves
as the ISP. Northpoint then contracts with BA for the line and some other
installation company to actually install the line jack and router. What a
MESS ! I had 5 techs visit me. (4 from BA)
To be fair, once everything was installed the service is quite good.
Anyway, the lesson learned from this is to ask a LOT of questions, who, what
and when about the installation, router, ISP, etc.
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