Linux-Networking Digest #518, Volume #12 Wed, 8 Sep 99 19:13:42 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux Cookbook Project Officially begins! (Dave)
Re: Could not determine remote IP address (Bill Unruh)
Re: Multi-homed traceroute weirdness (Loth)
Re: accessing serial port from bash? (Duncan Simpson)
Re: DSL - Linux tools to check connection speed ("TURBO1010")
Re: Two boxes connected to same hub (with cable modem), different subnet (M.
Buchenrieder)
Re: Can't get Win98 clients to logon to Samba ("W.A. Scheer")
Re: ipchains -L -M question (Vlar Schreidlocke)
Re: good 100Mb/s NIC for Linux? (Chris Salin)
Re: Does AOL support Linux connection? (David C.)
Re: Linux as a Win95 Internet server? ("Steven J. Hathaway")
Windows using PPP (Dustin Puryear)
Re: Problem to reach 100Mbps with 3C905B-TX (Thomas Kaemer)
Re: Browsers and Linux (David C.)
Re: PPTP->ipchains->One-way cable modem??? (Thomas Chow)
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From: Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux Cookbook Project Officially begins!
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 16:51:11 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I my self would welcome a understandable Linux 'Cookbook' I have 3
"Manuals" or "Guides" and am having problems digging out help with what
I thought would be a simple enough problem when I started but now has
proven outright frustrating, and the books don't seem to have an answer.
Problem: When I boot up I see messages ==
1. system logger [failed]
2. execvp no such file or directory found
3 amd [failed]
after booted, when telneting into the (rh 6.0 + version 2.2.5-15smp)
every command gets a response like ==
$>pine
your terminal, of type "dumb", is lacking functions needed to run pine.
$>man mingetty
WARNING: terminal is not fully functional [press RETURN]
$>pico temp
Incomplete terminfo entry
&>info term
info: Terminal type "dumb" is not smart enough to run info.
I don't know what could have caused this to happen but would appreciat
any suggestions on what to check/change to over come it.
Any and all help would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance -- Dave reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or post here.
Lucius Chiaraviglio wrote:
>
> "W.A. Scheer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >John Murtari wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >>Douglas Bollinger wrote:
> >>> W.A. Scheer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >>> > This project is tasked with creating high-quality, newbie-friendly
> >>> > documentation centered on specific distributions of Linux (Presently
> >>> > RedHat
> >>> > and Caldera) and towards accomplishing specific tasks with minimal
> >>> > theory
> >>> > and hassle. The editorial standards will decidely anti-command-line
> >>> > wherever
> >>> > possible and applicable in order to address the widest possible
> >>> > audience.
> >>>
> >>> As a relative Linux newbie myself, I found it much easier to do
> >>> things with the command line interface, especially when setting up
> >>> things like IP Chains and such. It's much easier to type along with
> >>> the instructions that trying to describe points & clicks in various
> >>> menus and selection boxes.
> >>
> >> YES, YES -- may I add my sentiments also as a more senior
> >>linux administrator. Point & Click is nice if you do it right and
> >>everything
> >>can be guided by the GUI (like a wizard). My experience with complex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Could not determine remote IP address
Date: 8 Sep 1999 16:43:22 GMT
In <7r5b7u$4kj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
]Got an error "Could not determine remote IP
]address" when connecting to my ISP (hooked.net).
]Can anyone help? I'm using SuSE 6.2.
You have a sick ISP who does not know its own IP number. So assign them
one-- eg 192.168.0.1 with the
:192.168.0.1
option to pppd
Stick in a
ipcp-accept-remote
as well just in case when you assign them an address they remember that
they actually know their own address and try to assign it.
Where in th eworld do the ISPs find all of these defective ppp
implimentations??
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From: Loth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multi-homed traceroute weirdness
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 23:47:01 +0200
doe een
traceroute -i ppp0 <host>
en probeer
man traceroute
voor meer uitleg.
Wouter de Waal wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a Linux box with eth0, eth1 and ppp0. ppp0 is
> obviously the link to the rest of the world (you :-)
>
> And the routes are set up correctly, with ppp0 being the
> default.
>
> So, why is it that when I traceroute (from a shell on
> said Linux box) to, say, www.netscape.com, the thing
> wants to use eth0? Shouldn't it check the routing
> tables?
>
> Thanks
>
> Wouter
> CCII Systems net-dude
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Subject: Re: accessing serial port from bash?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Date: 9 Sep 1999 01:33:06 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> VAN LABEKE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I have a device (lock-in amplifier) that is able to communicate using a
>> serial port. I can setup the serial line and communicate successfully
>> with the device using minicom.
>> I would like to read and write to the device using the bash shell
>> commands, is this possible? I am running RedHat 6.
>> Thanks,
>> Chip
>>
>> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>Hello !
>I don't know if this can help you, but I use the read and write commands to
>send bytes to the machine ports. Perhaps the equivalent exists in bash (or
>build a special compiled program which read/send to ports...)
Yup, it does. It is called I/O redirection (you can do things like
read </dev/ttyS1, echo "foo" >/dev/ttyS1, etc). Fancier things are
possible too---bash may be turing complete. If you want to set the
baud rate then stty rediected works.
--
Duncan (-:
"software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
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From: "TURBO1010" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DSL - Linux tools to check connection speed
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 15:18:53 -0700
On mine, through CPL I've gotten, 330 download, and 440 upload, advertized
is 384/384, so it's pretty close. I'm satisfied
Ken Brameld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all:
>
> I recently fell prey to the need for a faster internet connection and
> signed up for PacBell's DSL. However, it seems that I'm not getting
> anywhere close to the connection speeds advertised (surprise, surprise,
> eh?). Using FTP in the dead of night as a gauge of max speed possible,
> I got the following speeds for a 6.5 Mb file (done in triplicate):
>
> download - (384 Kbps advertised) 147.83 Kbps, 151.56 Kbps, 150.69 Kbps
> upload - (128 Kbps advertised) 13.22 Kbps, 14.03 Kbps, 13.28 Kbps
>
> I contacted PacBell and was told my "connection speeds may vary due to
> internet congestion." This is kind of a lame response and I would like
> to track connection speeds in greater detail to identify bottlenecks
> (i.e. where's the slow down, my computer --> Alcatel modem --> PacBell
> central office --> ISP --> world ?).
>
> What tools are available in Linux to do this? Should I be looking for
> problems with configuration of my network card (especially RE the slow
> upload)? I've used the "traceroute" command, but I'm not sure how to
> interpret the output. What sort of speed in ms is good? What's bad?
>
> Thanks,
> -Ken
>
> ###################### Additional Info ################################
> SUSE 6.1
> Alcatel 1000 DSL Modem
> Kingston KNE100TX 10/100 network card
> tulip v0.91 driver
>
> Example output from traceroute to same host as I used for FTP:
>
> traceroute to xxx.ucsf.edu, 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
> 1 adsl-xxxxxx.dsl.pacbell.net (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) 15 ms 22 ms 17 ms
> 2 core1-fe5-0-0.snfc21.pbi.net (206.171.134.130) 12 ms 13 ms 13 ms
> 3 edge1-fa11-1-0.snfc21.pbi.net (209.232.130.2) 25 ms 26 ms 23 ms
> 4 sfra1-so-1-0.ca.us.prserv.net(165.87.161.74) 18 ms 21 ms 19 ms
> 5 ibr01-p5-2.sntc03.exodus.net (209.185.249.245) 21 ms 22 ms 16 ms
> 6 bbr02-g4-0.sntc03.exodus.net (216.33.153.66) 21 ms 21 ms 22 ms
> 7 bbr02-p5-0.irvn01.exodus.net (216.32.173.206) 45 ms 32 ms 34 ms
> 8 dcr03-g6-0.irvn01.exodus.net (216.33.164.3) 31 ms 31 ms 28 ms
> 9 vlan950.irvn01.exodus.net (216.33.164.131) 31 ms 31 ms 42 ms
> 10 irca-xgty.ucnet.net (209.185.207.110) 36 ms 45 ms 38 ms
> 11 igty-H10-0-0-T3.ucnet.net (192.35.216.109) 30 ms 28 ms 30 ms
> 12 bgty-H8-0-0-T3.ucnet.net (192.35.219.45) 37 ms 33 ms 34 ms
> 13 sfgty-A5-0-0-1.ucnet.net (192.35.219.18) 36 ms 36 ms 33 ms
> 14 192.35.221.49 (192.35.221.49) 33 ms 31 ms 36 ms
> 15 cgl.ucsf.edu (128.218.xxx.xx) 33 ms 31 ms 35 ms
> 16 xxx.ucsf.edu (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) 31 ms 32 ms 31 ms
>
> #######################################################################
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Two boxes connected to same hub (with cable modem), different subnet
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 19:35:10 GMT
Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Please add your comments below the cited text. Thanks.
[...]
>5. Configure your linux machine as a DHCP server (dhcpd.conf)
[...]
Overkill. With just a handful of connected machines, static IP
addresses are much easier to be configured and managed.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: "W.A. Scheer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't get Win98 clients to logon to Samba
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 14:46:44 -0700
Please see my SAMBA COOKBOOK at http://members.xoom.com/dansgold
You may find your solution there.
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Thomas R. Shannon wrote in message ...
>Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Running Win98 Clients
>> Server is RedHat 6 with Samba 2.0.5a
>>
>
>Did you also alter the Win98 registry on the machine you are logining
>in from?
>
>See the docs.
>
>Tom
>--
>
>Quote of the day for Friday, 3 September, 1999:
>
>"The only limits are, as always, those of vision."
>
> - James Broughton
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vlar Schreidlocke)
Subject: Re: ipchains -L -M question
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 17:37:18 GMT
What would I need WINS for anyway? Is it required by Samba or anything
else that might be important?
Was someone or something (Austin Roadrunner host) connecting to a
Win98 machine on the other side of the Linux firewall box? I'm
wondering now if it was the Roadrunner Manager program that is still
on the Win98 box (from when it was previously connected to the cable
modem) trying to update itself.
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 15:56:11 GMT, Mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vlar Schreidlocke) wrote:
>> I did an ipchains -L -M and got a connection from one of my internal
>> Win98 boxes to aussms2.austin.rr.com on port 139. Does this mean that
>> someone at aussms2.austin.rr.com was connected to the shares on my
>> Win98 machine? I could swear that there is an ipchains rule in my
>> firewal script that denies these connections.
>>
>> These are the lines:
>>
>> $IPCAHINS -A input -l -p tcp -s $REMOTENET -d $LOCALNET 139 -j DENY
>> $IPCAHINS -A input -l -p udp -s $REMOTENET -d $LOCALNET 139 -j DENY
>
>Ahh, but they are for *incoming* connections. You don't have a rule to
>stop outgoing, I suppose?
>
>I found this which might be useful in closing off the port -
>
>Closing Port 139:
> To close this port for good, instead of applying a lame
> patch, such as Microsoft distributed, do the following.
> Open Control Panel
> Open Devices
> Locate the "WINS Client(TCP/IP)" and highlight it
> Click the Startup button
> Choose DISABLE
> Click OK
> Click CLOSE
> Shutdown, and Restart
>
>You lose WINS resolution if you do this. But then who
>needs it?
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From: Chris Salin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: good 100Mb/s NIC for Linux?
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 17:13:05 -0500
Try the XPressNet 10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI adapter. This card rocks! You can
pick it up for $22. It has a linux driver that comes with it, but if you are
using a 2.2 series kernel, then get the new driver from the chipset
manufacturer www.davicom.com
The new driver works for any kernel and is covered under the GNU GPL!
Chris Salin
Eugene wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm planning to buy a 10/100Mb/s network card and I want it to work well
> with Linux. I have already 10 Mb/s network cards with Linux (NE2000 PCI) and
> they worked great. Is there some similar standard for 100Mb/s? I heard Intel
> Etherexpress works well. is that true?
>
> anyhow, I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could post their success /
> horror stories with Linux + 10/100 Mb/s ethernet.
>
> thanks,
>
> Eugene
>
> eestrulyov AT uwaterloo DOT ca
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Does AOL support Linux connection?
Date: 08 Sep 1999 14:49:48 -0400
>
> While we're on this topic, can someone tell me which of the main ISPs
> like aol DO support Linux connections. I have my own Net address so
> don't need them, but Mum has declared an intention to get active on
> the Net (well, emails anyway) and I'd surely hate to see her have to
> use Windoze.
Most ISPs do.
Most ISPs support a generic PPP-based dialup interface, with their
bundled software being little more than some convenient setup programs
and a web browser.
If they don't officially support Linux, then you will have to know what
you're doing to get everything set up, but it shouldn't be hard to do.
The hardest part will be knowing your ISP's name servers, to put them in
/etc/resolv.conf. (Windows dialers usually learn this information
dynamically at dialup time. For Linux, it has to be hard-coded.)
As for your Mum, Windows (or MacOS, if you want to buy Mac hardware)
will probably be far far easier than Linux. Especially if she has
little or no experience with computers. (Personally, I think an iMac is
the perfect computer for an inexperienced user to get on the net with.
But such sentiments are probably sacrilige here.)
-- David
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From: "Steven J. Hathaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux as a Win95 Internet server?
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 11:02:32 -0700
You have two separate issues here:
1) Linux can be used as an Internet firewall for a local
network regardless of client computers on the LAN.
See Masquerade, Routing, Firewall.
2) Using Linux printers from Windows clients:
There are two printing options that can be used.
a. One uses the Berkeley LPR/LPD protocol that can be setup
on your clients and natively supported by Linux.
b. The other requires SAMBA installation on Linux and uses
the native Microsoft Network print sharing mechanisms.
SAMBA must then be configured to share the Linux printers.
Steven J. Hathaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to share an internet connexion between a Linux machine
>
> (which has the Internet acces) and a Win95 machine? Using the Linux machine
>
> as a Firewall?
>
> What if my Linux machine is connected to a printer and I want to use that
>
> printer with Microsoft Word 97 Via the network from the Win95 machine. Is
>
> it possible?
>
> Please note that the network is already set up and it works fine under
>
> Win95.
>
> Thanks...
>
> ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear)
Subject: Windows using PPP
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 22:33:25 GMT
I am looking for information on how to easily setup our Linux server
to let Windows machines connect via dial-up networking. I believe
Windows uses PAP, but some of our other machines using PPP do not.
Basically, I would like the machine to be abe to let Windows users
log-in using simple dial-up networking, and have our other Linux
machines use regular PPP logins using prompts.
Any HOW-TO's? I reviewed the PPP-HOWTO but it wasn't very specific.
Also, I am wondering how to have PAP use the existing passwd
information instead of having to update a secrets file everytime we
add a user?
Any help is appreciated.
---
Dustin Puryear
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Thomas Kaemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem to reach 100Mbps with 3C905B-TX
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 19:36:45 +0200
Bernard Fay schrieb:
>
> Thanks guys for answering me.
>
> The 10M light is on. Also, I know the connection is correct because I
> checked with a 300GL with the same model of network card but install with NT
> and this machine operates at 100M. The external hardware is ok. Some of you
> say that the software shouldn't be a problem. Then I will try to use another
> card, maybe my card is simply defective.
>
Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/vortex.txt if you use the
3c59x.o modul and set the speed to 100M manually.
CU Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Browsers and Linux
Date: 08 Sep 1999 14:44:34 -0400
Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I wonder where the 'custom' of answering after the question comes
> from? I've just be going thru some of my offline usergroups, and I've
> gone through a dozen appends that start with ">" and the same original
> question ... and I have to scroll down to see new stuff. If I'm
> really interested in the original append (and I can't remember if from
> the subject line), I can do that.
IMO, it's easier to read the result. When people post under the text
they're replying to, you can read the entire message like a book. When
you start from the top and read down, you see comments, followed by
replies.
This is especially convenient if you insert reply text between
paragraphs of quoted text.
When people post on the top, sure you may not have to scroll to see the
reply, but it makes it more difficult to see the context that the reply
corresponds to. If I've already read the original message, then I don't
care. If I have to read the quoted text as well (see below), I'd rather
see the reply at the bottom.
Others have said "just view the previous messages" to get the context.
That's not a bad idea, either, but messages have a habit of expiring.
And sometimes the reply message arrives at the server before the
original one does. Meaning that there are always situations where you
may actually want to read the quoted text - and for those situations,
it's nicer when replies are posted below the quotes.
What's really annoying is when some people reply at the top, and others
reply at the bottom. Trying to follow the thread through that mess is a
royal pain in the neck. Enough so that I usually give up and don't read
it at all.
At least that's my pinion.
-- David
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From: Thomas Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.net.masquerade
Subject: Re: PPTP->ipchains->One-way cable modem???
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:13:38 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
you can try to change your ipchains and put in rc.local
ipchains -A input -i ! lo -s 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 -j DENY
ipchains - P forward DENY
ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/24 -d0.0.0.0/0
ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -i eth0 -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/8 -d0.0.0.0/0
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx this is your eth0 ip address
all netscape setup don't need proxy direct use your isp dns
the four line ipchains is forward the packet only. no filter no firewall
fuction
=============================================
David Park wrote:
> I have a one-way cable modem connection through MediaOne in Ann Arbor,
> MI.
>
> I have an outbound interface ppp0 over which outbound requests are sent,
> and an inbound interface cm0 over which responses are received.
>
> Masquerading is working fine for everything except PPTP.
>
> When I am attempting a connection, RASMON on the PPTP client reports
> outbound packets, but no packets are received.
>
> I have tried a tight, locked down set of rules, a wide open set (ACCEPT
> for input/output, MASQ for forward), even nonsensical attempts like two
> entries:
> ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 10.1.1.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -i ppp0
> ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -d 10.1.1.0/24 -s 0.0.0.0/0 -i cm0
>
> ...to no avail, as none of my PPTP packets are returned.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> David Park
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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