Linux-Networking Digest #469, Volume #12 Sat, 4 Sep 99 07:13:27 EDT
Contents:
Re: Access(+) client/server for Linux? (Andrew Veitch)
Re: ICMP source quench - what's that? (Thomas Zajic)
Re: ICMP source quench - what's that? (Thomas Zajic)
Re: What's so great about it???? (Warren Young)
connecting to 'net via linux (Carl Black)
Re: Linux PPP server (Warren Young)
Re: Quick question 3C509B (Warren Young)
Re: QB for Linux (Warren Young)
Re: What domain do I use? (Warren Young)
Re: Connection Problems with LLinux & 3C590 (Warren Young)
iproute2 NAT question (Ben Chobot)
Why do I sometimes get UDP packets from sites such as icq.com and ("Jesus M. Salvo
Jr.")
Re: LAN card driver source compile problem. (Jeff Bhavnanie)
Re: Hostname for PPP connection? ("No one")
Re: PPP DNS problem ("No one")
IP address and FQDN (Terry Paddy)
Exchange for linux (Chris Anderson)
Re: DHCP and never-expired leases (Re-post) (Steve Purdy)
Re: Ipchains rule for IRC? (Chris Anderson)
Re: Help a newbie understand....? ("Jan Geertsma")
Re: smbmount problems for RH6.0 users on Dec Alpha (Chris Anderson)
Re: connecting to 'net via linux ("Jan Geertsma")
Caldera & AppleTalk? (Paul Fredlein)
Have you seen these DFE-530TX Errors? (Mark Burton)
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From: Andrew Veitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Access(+) client/server for Linux?
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 09:33:19 +0100
In article <7qo9ou$s5u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Butler
<URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a client and/or server for Linux that can handle
> Access(+) shares with Acorn machines?
TTBOMK, no such thing exists (atm)
> Alternatively, does anyone know where I can find protocol specifications?
See above.
--
Andrew Veitch mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vision Internet Services http://www.visn.co.uk/
(Speaking personally)
|- In at the Foundation of a new era for RISC OS -|
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: ICMP source quench - what's that?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 17:51:52 GMT
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999 15:06:09 +0100, Richard Brodie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Roughly 'source quench' == 'slow down, you're going too fast for me'.
> I guess there is some scope for a mild denial-of-service attack but more
> likely it's just some poor overloaded router in the path between you and
> where you wanted to go.
Okay, so no need for a paranoid seizure then - thanks a lot!
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: ICMP source quench - what's that?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 18:03:14 GMT
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999 15:06:09 +0100, Richard Brodie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Roughly 'source quench' == 'slow down, you're going too fast for me'.
> I guess there is some scope for a mild denial-of-service attack but more
> likely it's just some poor overloaded router in the path between you and
> where you wanted to go.
Okay, so no need for a paranoid seizure then - thanks a lot!
Thomas
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From: Warren Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's so great about it????
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:13:17 -0600
Stuart Summerville wrote:
>
> Fact: Linux is a Dog to learn if you don't know Unix. For what it does, Windas
> does a reasonable job in simplifying the traditionally difficult.
Windows is fine when it works and when you don't try to push it beyond
its low limits. But when it breaks or you find yourself needing more
power than Microsoft wants you to have, you get slapped down hard.
Sure, Linux takes more knowledge to run well, but when something craps
out on my Windows boxes, I usually end up reinstalling something rather
than really trying to fix the problem. It's not a lack of experience (I
program the damned OS for a living!), but a lack of ways to see into the
system, to find out what's wrong.
> If you just wanna run everyday apps & not
> be bothered with flexibility or relatively excruciating setup, then Windas is
> the way to go.
>
> Why Linux & Windas uses can't agree on this is beyond me. (Actually religiously
> stubborn pride is a major reason....)
"Religion" and inertia are part of it, but there's a more important
reason: Linux is inherently a multiuser system, and Windows is not.
(Not even Windows NT.)
That has several consequences on system design, one of which is a
security consciousness that limits what Joe User can do without becoming
"root" first. PPP is one of those things unless the OS vendor
configures it otherwise. Red Hat Linux is this way, so it may well be
that Mandrake (based on Red Hat) is this way, too.
--
= Warren -- See the *ix pages at http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/
=
= ICBM Address: 36.8274040 N, 108.0204086 W, alt. 1714m
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From: Carl Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: connecting to 'net via linux
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 21:24:46 +1200
Hi all,
I'm setting up a small LAN at home, using cheapo GE2000II cards and coax
cabling.
I have two win98 machines on this network, and a linux box, which I hope
to use as a gateway server to access the internet with.
So far I have managed to get all the PC's pinging each other, the '98
machines are sharing files and printers OK, and I can Telnet to the
Linux box without any trouble. i did this by assigning each an IP that
I invented at random.
I'd like to be able to have the Linux box dial a PPP connection, and
then share that connection between the other PC's on the network.
Can anyone tell me how to do this from scratch?
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From: Warren Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux PPP server
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:27:43 -0600
"Servicio T�cnico" wrote:
>
> I have a PC connected to Internet and i need to configure them as an ISP to
> give access to other computer (this second computer isn�t a PC) connected to
> this with a serial cable.
RTFM. The pppd docs and the PPP HOWTO both cover this.
--
= Warren -- See the *ix pages at http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/
=
= ICBM Address: 36.8274040 N, 108.0204086 W, alt. 1714m
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From: Warren Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Quick question 3C509B
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:55:59 -0600
CNT wrote:
>
> Will Linux RedHat 6.0 support the 3Com 3C509B NIC. I only found information
> regarding a 3C509, or IS it the same. I tought they are different...?
The difference is that the "B" model added Plug and Play support. With
the 3c5x9cfg utility that comes on the adapter's driver disk (also
called 3c509.exe on older versions of the EtherDisk) you can turn off
PnP, and then it behaves just like a non-B board.
I've never tried to configure it with isapnp, but I suppose you could
try it.... I leave such shenanigans to non-critical hardware like sound
cards. No one cares much if sound is temporarily broken, but when you
can't get on the Net....well, that's a crisis of Brobdingnagian
proportions! ;->
Good luck,
--
= Warren Young -- http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/
= Yesterday it worked.
= ICBM Address: 36.8274040 N, Today it is not working.
= 108.0204086 W, alt. 1714m Windows is like that.
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From: Warren Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: QB for Linux
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:57:22 -0600
Puneet Arora wrote:
>
> can anyone tell me where can i get QuickBasic for Linux from ?
> one site I know is http://www.basmark.com
> but it's not free ....
If you must have QB compatibility, I can't help you. But if you just
want _a_ BASIC, most Linux distributions come with one. Cruise the
various software archives to find others.
Good luck,
--
= Warren Young -- http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/
= Yesterday it worked.
= ICBM Address: 36.8274040 N, Today it is not working.
= 108.0204086 W, alt. 1714m Windows is like that.
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From: Warren Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What domain do I use?
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:51:00 -0600
Robert Inskeep wrote:
>
> people. I have only a small network. One win98, One NT and trying One
> Linux. I had not set the system up with a domain. I set it up with
> workgroups. What do I use for the domain in the adapter setup?
I take the Windows workgroup name and append ".local". You could also
use .com or .org or whatever, but there's a chance you could cause
problems that way. If you just stick with .local, you can't screw up
someone else's system, or give out bogus info on the Internet. It's not
a problem you're likely to run into, but rather a matter of courtesy
that's easy to take care of.
Incidentally, Windows 2000, with its Active Directory/DNS merging stuff,
does this exact thing automatically, if you tell it you don't have a
registered domain name. I guess that means it's a good idea -- been
rubber-stamped by Redmond! (I was doing it first, though....) ;->
Enjoy,
--
= Warren Young -- http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/
= Yesterday it worked.
= ICBM Address: 36.8274040 N, Today it is not working.
= 108.0204086 W, alt. 1714m Windows is like that.
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From: Warren Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Connection Problems with LLinux & 3C590
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:47:05 -0600
Andrew Smith wrote:
>
> with irq 11, and it's hardware address. The light for that computer lights
> up on the hub, so the card must be installed correctly.
Not necessarily. All a link light means is that the cabling is
sufficiently close to correct that the network card sees electricity
coming from the hub. A poorly-crimped cable can show a link light but
still not reliably pass data. The same goes for wires that are
bent-and-weakened, cables running near high-interference devices like
motors, electromagnets and fluorescent light fixtures.
> when the server is pinged, sometimes the response
> is 3 or 4 ms, yet pinging again straight afterwards will cause a timeout. if
> the server tries to ping any machine (apart from it's own IP) it stops dead,
> in efect, 'crashes', making that console unusable.
If this isn't a cabling problem, it's probably an I/O address or IRQ
problem. What do "cat /proc/interrupts" and "cat /proc/ioports" say?
> fails. So far, after 2 days of debugging, i've found out that the problem is
> that the SMBD deamon is not starting properly. I have checked all the
> parameters with 'testparm' but with no luck. The deamon just won't run...
You can find out why it's dying by looking in /var/log/samba. Do an "ls
-ltr" in that directory to find the most-recently-touched file, then
view the last few entries in that file with the "tail" command. What is
it complaining about?
(This, by the way, is one reason why Linux is better than Windows: you
can usually ask the system what's wrong, instead of just staring at a
meaningless GPF or blue screen. You just have to learn how to ask.)
You don't have a Samba problem, that's clear. What you have is a
lower-level problem that's also affecting Samba.
Good luck,
--
= Warren Young -- http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/
= Yesterday it worked.
= ICBM Address: 36.8274040 N, Today it is not working.
= 108.0204086 W, alt. 1714m Windows is like that.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Chobot)
Subject: iproute2 NAT question
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 09:28:27 GMT
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From: "Jesus M. Salvo Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why do I sometimes get UDP packets from sites such as icq.com and
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 10:00:50 +0000
Everyday, I can see in my /var/log/messages that rejected UDP packets
originating from hosts such as icq.icq.com or fes-d020.icq.aol.com from
these two hosts' port 4000. Is this normal?
Thanks,
John Salvo
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From: Jeff Bhavnanie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LAN card driver source compile problem.
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 18:03:00 +0800
Hi,
These are the errors I get.
sis900.o: unresolved symbol securebits
sis900.o: unresolved symbol eth_type_trans
sis900.o: unresolved symbol request_region
sis900.o: unresolved symbol pcibios_read_config_byte
sis900.o: unresolved symbol __kfree_skb
and so on...
I sent the code to donald becker and he confirmed that it was a buggy code.
Is there anyone who has a working version of the sis900 module?
Please let me know. Thanks
->Jeff
LhD Administrator wrote:
>
> Jeff Bhavnanie wrote:
>
> > errors. When I do 'insmod sis900.o' i get whole bunch of "unresolved
>
> symbol"
>
> > statements. I'm a total newbie at compiling stuff. So, could someone
>
> What are the errors?
>
> Could it be that you have an SMP module vs. non-SMP kernel, version
>
> mismatch, etc.?
>
> LhD Administrator
>
> LhD: Linux Hardware Database
>
> http://lhd.datapower.com
>
> ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: "No one" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hostname for PPP connection?
Date: 1 Sep 1999 19:35:46 GMT
Reply-To: "No one" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Edward S Meadows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<7qjsbt$a4v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Suppose that I could get my ISP to put my local machine into
> their database. Wouldn't I need to associate that hostname
> with an IP address? I don't see how that works with dynamic
> IP addresses.
>
> This must be a solved problem, since plenty of Linux users
> get dynamic IP addresses when they connect to their ISP's.
>
> Edward S. Meadows [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dept. of Chemical Engineering Office: (302) 831-0726
> University of Delaware Home/fax: (302) 369-0777
>
>
> In article <7qjec7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Clifford Kite <kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com> wrote:
> >Edward S Meadows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> >: I connect my home machine to the world via a PPP connection
> >: at the University of Delaware, where I work. The domain
> >: there is udel.edu, so I gave my local machine the hostname
> >: tiago.udel.edu. I find that I can't use mail from home
> >: because my ISP rejects tiago.udel.edu as a valid hostname.
> >
> >: What should my hostname be in this case? The apparent
> >: hostname that my ppp connection has on the remote machine is
> >: ppp-as10-14.nss.udel.edu. Is that relevant?
> >
> >Host names must be added to the DNS data base by a network administrator
> >before they can be used to access your host. Just defining your
hostname
> >won't do it. The ppp-as10-14.nss.udel.edu is the DNS name of the IP
> >address used for that particular connection.
> >
> >--
> >Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
> >/* For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill.
> > -- R. Clopton */
>
>
> --
> Edward S. Meadows [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dept. of Chemical Engineering Office: (302) 831-0726
> University of Delaware Home/fax: (302) 369-0777
>
The solution I use for this is located at justlinux.com. They offer dynamic
IP hosting. You can either use a small perl script or through their website
to update your IP address which is pointed to by
whateveryouwant.penguinpowered.com. So it won't matter if your IP changes,
as long as it gets updated there whateveryouwant.penguinpowered.com will
always work. They also offer e-mail and website forwarding, among other
things. Best of all, it's free :)
Matt
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From: "No one" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PPP DNS problem
Date: 1 Sep 1999 19:43:02 GMT
Reply-To: "No one" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
georgik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hello folks,
>
> I have problem with my ISPs DNS. I can connect OK and ping some IPs,
> e.g. ping 137.82.43.58, but when I try to ping my ISPs DNS
> IP=198.133.036.9,
^^^--might be your problem there. That could be interpreted as
an octal number (i.e. 30, not 36)
<snip>
Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Paddy)
Subject: IP address and FQDN
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 10:18:06 GMT
Hi all,
I have set up RH6 with Apache-SSL 1.3.9 on a LAN (one other win98
machine). I can contact the Linux server by typing in my IP address
169.254.100.10 however I want to be able to type www.mybusiness.com
the is to test everything out before passing the box to an ISP to be
telehoused.
So I set the HOSTS file to be
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
169.254.100.20 mybusiness.com www
but if I type www.mybusiness.com I get "can't find..." if I type
http://100.254.100.20/ it works OK
I set the servername & domain name both to mybusiness.com
The next complication is I (think) I have set up virtual hosting on
the one IP in http.conf with 100.254.100.20 mybusiness.com and
anotherbusiness.com
Any help would be much appreciated...
Thanks...
Terry - Christchurch, New Zealand
Terry Paddy
Christchurch, New Zealand
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Anderson)
Subject: Exchange for linux
Date: 4 Sep 1999 10:24:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know of an exchange server that runs under linux..
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Purdy)
Crossposted-To:
tw.bbs.comp.linux,alt.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,info.ncsa-telnet,hk.comp.os.linux,hk.comp.os.unix,hk.comp.pc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: DHCP and never-expired leases (Re-post)
Date: 4 Sep 1999 09:47:30 +0100
Jimmy Lio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: > How do I configure dhcpd so that it gives out leases that never expired?
: >
: > Jimmy
Read the DHCP mini-HOWTO, or the simple answer, assuming you are the admin
then edit /etc/dhcpd.conf to add a section for the fixed address:
host boxname {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
fixed-address 192.168.111.222;
}
Restart dhcpd and away you go.
--
Steve Purdy. London, England.
http://www.abode.demon.co.uk/
Using the internet from home. Powered by Linux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Anderson)
Subject: Re: Ipchains rule for IRC?
Date: 4 Sep 1999 10:27:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
okay... What is the internal network?
The following works quite well for us. with an internal network of
192.168.xx.xx. Change as appropriate and use as root by issuing
a ipchains-restore < enclosed file
CHris
============ CUT ===
:input ACCEPT
:forward DENY
:output ACCEPT
-A forward -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -d 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -j ACCEPT
-A forward -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -d ! 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -j MASQ
-A forward -s ! 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -d 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -j DENY
============ SNIP0==================
Vlar Schreidlocke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: What would be a good ipchains rule for allowing IRC on internal masq'd
: computers?
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From: "Jan Geertsma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help a newbie understand....?
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 12:27:09 +0200
code <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:yB3A3.1928$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello i just have some questions about linux networking. What i have
> currently is a Windows NT server with 5 windows computers on a LAN. On NT
> you specifiy users and groups and then the users on windows use those
names
> to login.
With linux it is likewise, the administrator account is called root and as
root you can create groups and useraccounts, use linuxconf for this. As user
you can login to the actual machine, and (if granted) login via telnet and
ftp, the homedir is located in /home/user (the one for the root is in
/root/) via telnet you can become root by using su and entering the root
password.
> Is this the same way with linux? Also, how do a linux machine and
> a windows machine work together, i would linuk to be in control of the
> entire network. Thanks for you help...from a linux newbie
Linux standard networking protocol is tcp/ip, to get file&printersharing
running install samba, so what else do you want to control,
if you need information about linuxsoftware read the HOWTO's and if you need
aditional software look for your local www.linuxberg.com
Jan
> -Code
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Anderson)
Subject: Re: smbmount problems for RH6.0 users on Dec Alpha
Date: 4 Sep 1999 10:31:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On a similar issue. Why does smbmount say "need mount v6 "
whenever I try to mount a Windoze NT 4.0 share. I have RH5.2
with kern 2.2.9 and smb 2.0.xx
Chris
Robert (Bob) McGwier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I reported to Red Hat that they did not have samba mount, smbmount,
: etc. in the samba rpm's. They wrote back and basically said of course
: we don't.
: http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4817
: --- shadow/4817 Tue Aug 31 21:42:18 1999
: +++ shadow/4817.tmp.30922 Thu Sep 2 13:11:31 1999
: @@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
: Version: 6.0
: Platform: alpha
: OS/Version:
: -Status: NEW
: -Resolution:
: +Status: RESOLVED
: +Resolution: LATER
: Severity: high
: Priority: normal
: Component: samba
: -AssignedTo: Red Hat Team 2
: +AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: URL:
: Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: @@ -23,3 +23,9 @@
: This apparently was done with the 386 code and not the
: alpha
: +
: +------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/02/99 13:11 -------
: +smbfs mounting is not shipped on alpha because support isn't
: +compiled into the kernel.
: +
: +When one changes, the other will.
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From: "Jan Geertsma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: connecting to 'net via linux
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 12:32:22 +0200
Carl Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
> I'm setting up a small LAN at home, using cheapo GE2000II cards and coax
> cabling.
> I have two win98 machines on this network, and a linux box, which I hope
> to use as a gateway server to access the internet with.
> So far I have managed to get all the PC's pinging each other, the '98
> machines are sharing files and printers OK, and I can Telnet to the
> Linux box without any trouble. i did this by assigning each an IP that
> I invented at random.
Change these to the private range 192.168.0.x
Where the 0 may be anything between 0-255 these addresses won't conflict
with an internetconnection.
> I'd like to be able to have the Linux box dial a PPP connection, and
> then share that connection between the other PC's on the network.
> Can anyone tell me how to do this from scratch?
First get your internet connection running (Never done this but you should
be looking for howto's on ppp connections), then install masquerading in
your kernel, described in the masquerading howto.
Jan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Fredlein)
Subject: Caldera & AppleTalk?
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 20:47:21 +1000
Hi,
How do you get AppleTalk working in Caldera Open Linux 2.2?
I've selected it in the COAS -> kernel and added the kernel module but
now what?
Thanks,
Paul
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From: Mark Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Have you seen these DFE-530TX Errors?
Date: 04 Sep 1999 11:54:36 +0100
Hello,
I wonder if anyone else has come across the following problem I have
found using the D-Link DFE-530TX 100Mbs PCI ethernet card.
I am using the latest via-rhine.c (v1.03a 8/27/99) with a 2.2.12
kernel. The same problem occurs with two different manufacturers
motherboards.
What happens is that the following diagnostics are produced:
Sep 4 09:35:22 lark2 kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 8800.
Sep 4 09:35:52 lark2 kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 8800.
Sep 4 09:36:17 lark2 kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 8800.
Sep 4 09:37:57 lark2 kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 8800.
Sep 4 09:39:06 lark2 last message repeated 4 times
Sep 4 09:39:22 lark2 kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 8800.
Sep 4 09:41:02 lark2 last message repeated 3 times
Sep 4 09:41:32 lark2 kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 8100.
Sep 4 09:41:33 lark2 last message repeated 3 times
After a while the card just locks up with the following messages:
Sep 3 12:32:16 tower kernel: eth0: Transmitter underrun, increasing Tx threshol
d setting to 40.
Sep 3 12:32:16 tower kernel: eth0: Something Wicked happened! 001a.
Sep 3 12:32:35 tower kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 8800.
Sep 3 12:42:11 tower kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 9000.
Sep 3 12:42:11 tower kernel: eth0: Transmitter underrun, increasing Tx threshol
d setting to 60.
Sep 3 12:42:11 tower kernel: eth0: Something Wicked happened! 001a.
Sep 3 12:45:57 tower kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 8800.
Sep 3 12:45:57 tower kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 9000.
Sep 3 12:45:57 tower kernel: eth0: Transmitter underrun, increasing Tx threshol
d setting to 80.
Sep 3 12:45:57 tower kernel: eth0: Something Wicked happened! 001b.
Sep 3 12:46:18 tower kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status 0000, PHY status
782d, resetting...
Sep 3 12:46:48 tower last message repeated 6 times
Sep 3 12:47:48 tower last message repeated 12 times
Sep 3 12:48:48 tower last message repeated 12 times
Sep 3 12:49:48 tower last message repeated 12 times
The preliminary vt86c100a documentation says that the 0x0800 transmit
status bit is reserved so I haven't a clue what is actually going
wrong.
I don't know if it is relevant but other machines on the network
report receive framing errors.
Any help would be most appreciated, I will happily try and fix this
problem myself if anyone can supply updated Rhine documentation.
Regards,
Mark
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