Linux-Networking Digest #321, Volume #12 Sun, 22 Aug 99 05:13:27 EDT
Contents:
Re: Blue and White G3 Yellow Dog Linux and PPP (Teonanacatl)
Re: PCMCIA Notebook-lockup (Doug Marker)
Token Ring 16/4 Speed Problem (Harold Hotelling)
PCMCIA Ether on Linux RH6 & Mandrake (Doug Marker)
Re: Cracks for Linux?^ (Bill Bonde)
Re: Blue and White G3 Yellow Dog Linux and PPP (Teonanacatl)
Re: Access to NFS mount boils TCP/IP networking? (Thomas Antepoth)
My server is refusing telnet sessions! ("Suddn")
forwarding all ports to local machine. (S Leung)
Re: Shopping cart need for my Linux Webserver (ilan Bloch)
Re: IP Masquerading and FTP on port other than 21 (Andrea Borgia)
IPPPD problem - solved (Ralf Gerlich)
Re: IP MASQ and RoadRunner (David Crooke)
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From: Teonanacatl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Blue and White G3 Yellow Dog Linux and PPP
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 01:03:39 -0600
Michael,
First things first. You need to be sure about what type of user
authentication your ISP is using. I was not able to glean any info
about your ISP, being how you posted through an email service. Consult
your ISP, it's web support pages, or consult the current dialup software
in use, to attempt to determine whether it's using CHAP, PAP, or other,
and whether there are connection scripts in place.
Then, armed with this info, we can proceed to configure your
configuration files, or alternately and much easier, your Kppp dialog
boxes.
This assumes that you have the neccessary packages installed on your
system. I assume that you have the networking options, X, and KDE all
installed.
Here are a set of instructions which I sent to another user which detail
connection to my ISP. Try these out to see if you proceed well. In
either case let me know if it helps, or if not, we can then attempt
further diagnostics.
Here goes:
Here's how I configured my KPPP to work for Mindspring.com It does
also use PAP for authentication. Log on to your system as root. Start
x going. This is assuming that you're using KDE in SuSE 6.1, and that
you installed PPP support when installing the whole system.
In KDE click on the K button, go down to Internet, click, select
Kppp. The dialog box will come up, and you can type in your login ID.
Then click on Setup on the bottom row of buttons.
Onthe next dialog which pops up, select accounts. click on new.
On the next dialog box, which is DIAL, type in connection name, like
Netcom, next type in local phone number to dial, and for authenication
type, select PAP. You might also check off the store password option.
On my system, I left blank the other three boxes (not needed) and didn't
use any "Arguments".
Next tab - IP, selected Dynamic IP. Left the other check boxes
unchecked.
Next tab - DNS, typed in Mindspring.com Next, typed in the DNS IP
address into the DNS IP address box, then clicked ADD. Did this for
the second DNS Ip address for mindspring. I left the other check boxes
unchecked.
Next tab - Gateway, Default Gateway is checked and checkmark on assign
the default gateway route to this gateway.
Next tab - Login Script, didn't use. Mindspring ISP doesn't use any
scripts for login.
Next tab - Accounting - Left blank. I will know about what my usage
is, and it is unlimmited anyway.
Clicked OK
Select Device tab - Make sure /dev/modem is selected
I use a checkmark on Lock File. no other changes made.
Next tab - Modem, clicked on Query Modem, to make sure I got a response
to modem. This makes sure system can talk to modem.
Next tab - PPP check mark on show clock on caption
check mark on disconnect on X-server shutdown
check mark on minimize window on connect.
Click on OK
Typed password on main dialog box, and attempted to connect.
On my system, the first time I attempted to connect, it errored out. I
then closed Kppp, and immediately went to start menu and selected Kppp
again. This time it connected like a champ. Fired up the browser and
then set the correct parameters in the Netscape preferences.
On my system, every time I fire up X windows, the first attempt at using
Kppp errors out, but I then immediately close Kppp and fire it up
again. It works everytime after that, even all day long, hanging up and
then later reconnecting, as long as I don't shut down X. If I do, Kppp
will error out on the first attempt, again, but I then merely close it,
and click it again, and then it will work. If I leave the computer
booted and X running for days, Kppp will always work on the first time.
Everytime.
Now, if Netcom uses scripting for connecting, you will need to enter the
scripts. I didn't need to edit any configuration files of any kind or
anything like that. Merely entering the correct data in dialog boxes
automatically configures all the required config files. It's totally
transparent to the user. I went into some of the config files later and
examined them, and Kppp did all the work for me.
Hope it helps you out. Write back and let me know how it went.
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From: Doug Marker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCMCIA Notebook-lockup
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 17:05:36 +1000
1st - thanks to Bob Martin in the help forum I was able to locate the
exact symptoms of
my original PCMCIA 'hang' as at ...
http://24.1.97.22/gmd/other/laptopLinux.html
Having patched my config.opts file I then spent the best part of 5 hours
getting my pcmcia
ethernet card working. It was all explained in the PCMCIA HOWTO at ...
http://hyper.stanford.edu/~dhinds/pcmcia/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html
Had it dawned on me at the begining that I only needed to create a file
called /etc/pcmcia/network.opts
(as below) to get my pcmcia card working - I could have done the job in
1/2 hour :-)
Anyway here is the file I created which works in Mandrake & RedHat6 -
the actual ip addresses
are bogus (to protect my notebook). My ethernet card is a PMC (Premax
Microelectronics Corp
Sunnyvale Calif). This card was (luckily) in the list of recognised
Linux pcmcia cards. It is
ne2000 compatible.
Now I can start up Mandrake/RH6 - plug in my PMX ethernet card (turns
out it is a known
card to pcmcia services) - I get 2 hi tone beeps which tell me it
recognised the card & that
it configured it (as per the info I supplied)
One bug that did cause trouble was that I had to disable my sound card
in the bios
as it was conflicting with the irg being allocated. I can fix that
later.
************ /etc/pcmcia/network.opts ************
case "$ADDRESS" in
*,*,*,*)
IF_PORT="auto"
BOOTP="n"
IPADDR="333.12.68.199"
NETMASK="333.255.255.240"
NETWORK="333.12.68.193"
BROADCAST="333.12.68.206"
GATEWAY="333.12.68.193"
DOMAIN="iatp1.mydom.com.au"
DNS_1="333.12.68.3"
DNS_2="333.12.68.18"
DNS_3="333.13.228.19"
;;
esac
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Doug Marker wrote:
> I have just tried RH6 Mandrake6 Caldera2.2 (+Caldera 2.3b) & SuSE 6.2
>
> Each of these causes a lock-up as soon as the install is finished and
> the notebook
> reboots - the lock-up occurs as soon as PCMCIA is started.
>
> I managed to get around the PCMCIA start by booting linux single &
> renaming
> pcmcia - in /etc/rc.d/init.d - to pcmcia.bak
>
> The Notebook runs Win95 ok & pcmcia works incl a ne2000 compatible ether
> card.
>
> It is a Twinhead machine (Taiwan) sells under the name Altima Maestro -
> has 128MB Ram
> & a 200Mhz P-MMX processor.
>
> Can anyone suggest a reason why PCMCIA might lock-up this particular
> notebook ?
> Any sites anywhere where I can discuss or explore this pcmcia issue ?
>
> I have an IBM Thinkpad 760 & it doesn't lock up (even if the pcmcia is
> still fiddly to
> get working).
>
> Cheers
>
> Doug Marker
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From: Harold Hotelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Token Ring 16/4 Speed Problem
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 23:55:19 -0700
Hey,
Anybody know how to disable Auto Speed Detection in the token ring
module ibmtr.o?
My Linux box has a Turbo 16/4 Token Ring card from IBM in it, and I'm
trying to network it with a token ring XStation.
I've got my Linux box plugged into an IBM 8228 MAU, and the only other
thing plugged in there is the XStation 160. I'm trying to get the
XStation to go to Linux, but when I do a "modprobe ibmtr" under RedHat
6, it gives me a periodic
tr0: No signal detected for Auto Speed Detection
while the MAU clicks. The modprobe detects the card, giving me the
correct MAC address for the card - so I have high hopes. If I could
just force the Linux box into 16 Mbps, I think the XStation would follow
it's lead...
Thanks,
Harold
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From: Doug Marker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCMCIA Ether on Linux RH6 & Mandrake
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 17:04:24 +1000
1st - thanks to Bob Martin in the help forum I was able to locate the
exact symptoms of
my original PCMCIA 'hang' as at ...
http://24.1.97.22/gmd/other/laptopLinux.html
Having patched my config.opts file I then spent the best part of 5 hours
getting my pcmcia
ethernet card working. It was all explained in the PCMCIA HOWTO at ...
http://hyper.stanford.edu/~dhinds/pcmcia/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html
Had it dawned on me at the begining that I only needed to create a file
called /etc/pcmcia/network.opts
(as below) to get my pcmcia card working - I could have done the job in
1/2 hour :-)
Anyway here is the file I created which works in Mandrake & RedHat6 -
the actual ip addresses
are bogus (to protect my notebook). My ethernet card is a PMC (Premax
Microelectronics Corp
Sunnyvale Calif). This card was (luckily) in the list of recognised
Linux pcmcia cards. It is
ne2000 compatible.
Now I can start up Mandrake/RH6 - plug in my PMX ethernet card (turns
out it is a known
card to pcmcia services) - I get 2 hi tone beeps which tell me it
recognised the card & that
it configured it (as per the info I supplied)
One bug that did cause trouble was that I had to disable my sound card
in the bios
as it was conflicting with the irg being allocated. I can fix that
later.
************ /etc/pcmcia/network.opts ************
case "$ADDRESS" in
*,*,*,*)
IF_PORT="auto"
BOOTP="n"
IPADDR="333.12.68.199"
NETMASK="333.255.255.240"
NETWORK="333.12.68.193"
BROADCAST="333.12.68.206"
GATEWAY="333.12.68.193"
DOMAIN="iatp1.mydom.com.au"
DNS_1="333.12.68.3"
DNS_2="333.12.68.18"
DNS_3="333.13.228.19"
;;
esac
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From: Bill Bonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Cracks for Linux?^
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 16:31:45 -0700
Bryan wrote:
>
> optimally, I'd pay the $20 IF I could get source. ie, I don't mind at
> all paying for somone's effort, but when things break (and it appears
> they do, sometimes, with oss) then I want to be able to fix it.
>
> otoh, I understand that they CANNOT release source since they had to
> sign an NDA to get specs on some cards. one card that I own and NEED
> drivers for is only NDA and even then, the oss guys aren't really on
> the ball about delivering high quality and FULL FUNCTIONAL drivers for
> it (the card is a sonorus studi/o - which has been claiming linux
> support for well over a year now, but still does not have multichannel
> i/o working).
>
> so I have mixed feelings about oss. if they would do a complete job
> and in a timely manner, I'd support them. but since their
> implementation for the card I need is far from complete, I'll hold
> onto my money. vote with your dollars, I always say.
>
Vote with your dollars and don't buy sound cards and the like
from companies that refuse to release specs to people making
drivers. If this sort of information were freely available to
all, drivers and even new ideas for uses of hardware would be
made available.
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From: Teonanacatl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Blue and White G3 Yellow Dog Linux and PPP
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 01:23:59 -0600
Michael,
Also found this message on news:comp.os.linux.powerpc
you should be able to click on this link,
neww:7p348m$70q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
to view the original message if neccessary. The contents of the message
follow. So, Give this a try also, if you have KDE up and running.
Hey listen, that stuff really is in the kppp manual, I got kppp working
for my user account after 10 minutes by following the simple solution
proposed in 7.1 Frequently Asked Questions. If you are working from home
and don't have too many people logging onto your system then maybe you
can afford to run kppp setuid root, in which case the instructions are
there.
file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/default/kppp/kppp-7.html#ss7.1
So, Michael, try clicking on this file, which should be on your system,
if you installed the help files.
Let me know how it works out.
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From: Thomas Antepoth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Access to NFS mount boils TCP/IP networking?
Date: 22 Aug 1999 08:30:00 +0200
Hello James,
>If it's any consolation I also notice horrible performance with NFS using 2.2.10
>kernel. Apparently this is expected though. Only NFS version 2 over UDP is
>supported. Many switches and network gear don't handle UDP very well, adding to
>the problem. I find performance no better than 1Mbyte/sec over NFS to a 2.2.10
>machine connected via switched 100Mbs ethernet. SGI's on the same network
>maintain 9 Mbytes/sec over NFS.
on Saturday i had the opportunity to make some additional tests.
I fondled a bit on the clients' side with the rsize/wsize parameters
and found that if these parameters were set to values smaller than
the MTU/MRU of the specific interface performance was satisfactory.
(I didn't say good - as it had been only 20% of the theoretical limit
of the 10 MBit bandwidth but anything's better than a seventy seconds
ICMP reply during the copy ... ;-)
Copying postgresql-6.5.1.tar.gz (roughly 6.4 MB) from the client
to the server took 18 to 20 seconds when r/w-size were set
to 1024 Bytes.
When more than 3 processes were copying data from the client to
the server, reply times rose up to 10 msecs and Telnet from
the client to the server went sluggish while the server only
had an average load of 10..15% CPU while the overall througput
never leaped over 200..300 kbytes/sec.
As it had been saturday the test environment was the only load on
the server during the tests.
Additional (probably) UI :
- Server running Linux 2.0.37 on a P166
- Client running Linux 2.2.10 on a P-II 350
Both connected to the same segment and thus to the same subnet with
no routers involved.
On the next week i'll set up a server running 2.2.10 as well
and try to make some other performance tests with 2.2.10 clients.
t++
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From: "Suddn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: My server is refusing telnet sessions!
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 07:12:25 GMT
My server use to allow me to log on via telnet. Now it just closes the
connection. (no request for username/password)
I have no idea why?! Need help!
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From: S Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.net.masquerade,linux.redhat.ppp
Subject: forwarding all ports to local machine.
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 08:00:08 GMT
Hi,
I've ppp0 and ppp1 on my firewall machine (192.168.0.1) and I would like
to forward all traffic to a local machine (192.168.0.2) and to have the
local machine to access the internet via ppp0 only. Can this be done
with ipchains and ipmasqadm (if so, how?) or do I need something else?
Thanks for your time.
Spencer
LAN | INTERNET
|
|-----------+ ppp0 +-----------+ ppp0 |
| |<-------------->|- - - - - -|<------------------------->
| machine a | | machine b | ppp1 |
| | | |<------------------------->
|-----------+ +-----------+ |
192.168.0.2/24 192.168.0.1/24 |
|
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From: ilan Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Shopping cart need for my Linux Webserver
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:39:50 +0300
http://www.freshmeat.net
Raymonds Doetjes wrote:
>
> There is one I forgot it's name. Try looking at http://www.linuxapps.com or
> at freshmeat.org
>
> Raymond
>
> Accolan wrote:
>
> > I am looking for a commercial software package that will run on my
> > Linux Webserver. I have loaded Redhat Linux 6.0 and am running the
> > Apache webserver. I need the package to work with Perl 5.0 & MySQL,
> > allow multiple payment options, tie into a payment processor and I can
> > customize the package for many different clients with no licensing fees.
> >
> > Any recommendations would be very appreciated !
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Andrea Borgia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP Masquerading and FTP on port other than 21
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 08:43:18 GMT
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 16:06:36 GMT,
in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Boster) wrote:
>I have read the IP chains HOWTO. The first impression
>i get is that i have to open TCP ports above 1024 to 65536.
>I don't want that wide open port access.
You don't need to: the ip_masq_ftp module supports up to 12 ports
concurrently, you just need to tell him about the specific numbers to
use.
I don't remember the exact syntax, but you can find it in the source
code for the module, it's well documented.
Bye.
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From: Ralf Gerlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IPPPD problem - solved
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:00:51 +0200
Hi!
Some weeks ago I came here telling you about my problems with ipppd.
I had set up an IPPP device using isdnctrl, set a default route on that
device ("route add default ippp0"), invoked ipppd with the defaultroute
option and dynamic IP addresses.
When the connection was started, ipppd replaced the default route(The
"*" in the Gateway-column changed to the address of my ISP-gateway) and
deleted it on disconnection.
I now added a line creating a default route to /etc/ppp/ip-down.
It works though it's some kind of a work-around.
When I remove the defaultroute option, ipppd deletes my original default
route and, as specified in the config-file, adds no new one.
Perhaps someone of the isdn4k guys can have a look at that code. I'm
using ipppd from the isdk4k-utils-9907311100.tar.gz archive.
Ciao,
Ralf
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From: David Crooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IP MASQ and RoadRunner
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 06:25:42 GMT
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/dcc/rrdns/
--
David Crooke, Austin TX, USA. +1 (512) 656 6102
"Open source software - with no walls and fences, who needs Windows
and Gates?"
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