Linux-Networking Digest #550, Volume #12 Sat, 11 Sep 99 10:13:26 EDT
Contents:
Re: How many Mb is redhat &/or Slackware uncompressed? ("Jan Geertsma")
Re: Using Win98 Proxy with linux ("Jan Geertsma")
Re: Kernel 2.2.5-22 SMP/ Hang under high traffic load? (John Murtari)
Re: Junkbuster and multiple proxies (tomislav)
Realtek 8029 unter SUSE 6.1 ("Daniel Saegert")
(simple?) pppd questions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cable Modem/Routing Problem? ("pg")
Re: samba-2.0.5b vs rh6.0/any 2.2 kernel ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Kernel 2.2.5-22 SMP/ Hang under high traffic load? (Bob Tennent)
Re: (simple?) pppd questions (Scott Nolde)
Re: nic/pc problem (Scott Nolde)
Re: Browsers and Linux ("Ernest")
Re: Browsers and Linux ("Ernest")
Re: Home network, wingate, linux as proxy, etc. (Scott Nolde)
Re: Cable Modem/Routing Problem? ("Jeff Szczepanski")
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From: "Jan Geertsma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How many Mb is redhat &/or Slackware uncompressed?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 14:10:01 +0200
Heywood Jablome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> How much disk space does redHat or SlackWare require on HDD? I hear it
> is 6 CD's, but y so big?
> How big do I need to go?
minimum I recomend is 250Mb, but go comfortable with atleast 1Gig
Jan
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From: "Jan Geertsma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using Win98 Proxy with linux
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 14:16:33 +0200
Use Sygate ... it is a translator too, but way better than win98se version
of internetconenction sharing (ICS)
the problem is that 192.168.0.1 isn't an ipaddress locatable from the
internet, so your packets won't survive the harsh internet. By using a nat
all your computers share that one single ipaddress of the dialing computer
... I dare say Sygate works even better than linuxmasquerading, though I use
the latter with 98% satisfaction. when you DO have a linux machine it would
be logical to make it a server for those type of uses ...
And you are absolutely right, your windows machine is the gateway to your
linux
Jan
Stephan Esterhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I did read all of the discussions concerning modem sharing but none
> really answered the question asked. Currently I am running Winproxy 1.4
> on a win98 box with a modem and access to the internet. What I am doing
> now on my Linux Mandrake 5.3 System is to just tell netscape to use a
> proxy - but that is limiting in a serious way, I can ONLY access the net
> through software that supports proxy's, so if i just want to telnet to a
> certain system on the net, that will not work.
>
> So basically what I want to do is to tell linux to use my win98 system
> as a gateway? I did tell my linux box that the default gateway should be
> my win98 box (192.168.0.2) but when I try to ping an IP-Address on the
> net, it doesn't seem to work. (yes, I can ping my win98 box and will get
> a nice reply from it)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Well, I do think that maybe i can get some better gateway/proxy software
> running on the other side (win98 box)? Or is there maybe an even better
> way to just tell windows to forward all the IP requests from the network
> device to the internet?
>
> Guess I have a lot to learn, but how can one learn of one doesn't ask?
>
> Stephan Esterhuizen
>
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From: John Murtari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.5-22 SMP/ Hang under high traffic load?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 08:22:56 -0400
I had posted:
> We are running RedHat 6 with the 2.2.5-22 (SMP) in a file
> server configuration. Ultra-SCSI disks and 3C905b network card.
>
> In the past several weeks we have experienced to system "hangs", i.e.
> no console response (not even ctl-alt-del), no net response, no
> logging -- only recovered by a hard reset.
>
> They seem to occur during periods of high network traffic. It is
> of GREAT management concern -- anyone have any experience with this,
> good solutions. We hate to try a random kernel upgrade -- have
> been considering 2.2.11.
Your response:
> I see that the 2.2.12 kernels that were on the Rawhide site
> for a long time are now gone. I've installed the 2.2.12-6 kernel
> from the new lorax site and it seems to be OK. So the problem
> might have been only in the rawhide kernels; perhaps they were
> patched by Alan Cox in a non-standard way and the patches were
> bad. I had been wondering why there weren't more complaints
> on the news groups.
>
> I've reported the problem to http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla/
> (bug 4925) if you want to track RedHat's response.
Thanks for your messages on this. I went to RedHat's Lorax
site and am in the process of building the: 2.2.12-9 Kernel.
The "hang" has occurred twice in the last three days and
it is QUITE a problem. Have see the following message on the
console display:
"Unable to handle kernel paging request"
"Aiee, killing interrupt handler"
"Kernel panic: Attempted to kill idle task"
It appears the system does not "sync", so none of this gets
into the log files.
This is on a Gateway ALR 7000 server with two Pentium-II (300).
Best regards (will also post this to the NewsGroup).
John
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John Murtari Software Workshop Inc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tomislav)
Subject: Re: Junkbuster and multiple proxies
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:17:05 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> I am trying to configure junkbuster to work through a second
> proxy running on a different machine. I have been using
> junkbuster through localhost on port 8000 for quite some
> time,
> but now need to access a second proxy on a different
> machine. I
Edit config and add this line:
# the forwardfile defines domain-specific routing
#
forwardfile /etc/junkbuster/forward
Then edit the forward file and add a line like this:
* onyx.bbm.hr:8001 . .
That works fine for me...
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From: "Daniel Saegert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Realtek 8029 unter SUSE 6.1
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 14:40:04 +0200
Hallo zusammen,
also ich habe folgendes Problem.
Ich m�chte auf meinem Rechner (Pentium III 500, Win98 SE + SuSE 6.1) meine
Netzwerkkarte REALTEK 8029 zu laufen bewegen.
Im YAST habe ich das Ding auch eingestellt, aber beim Hochfahren, sag Linux
mir immer, da� ich den Interrupt 0 eingestellt habe, und es deshalb nicht
klapt. Ich habe darum auch im YAST beim OPTION ZUM LADEN DES MODULES "IRQ=5"
eingegeben, aber er scheint jede �nderung einfach zu ignorieren, egal was
ich �ndere.
Ich danke euch schonmal f�r die Hilfe
Bis dann
Daniel Saegert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: (simple?) pppd questions
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 11:45:51 GMT
Hi. I've pulled out a considerable bit of hair trying to figure pppd
out. A couple of the BASIC questions which plague me:
1) i can run pppd from "root" but not as an ordinary user. i cannot
find an executable to change permissions on it, so i assume that it is
part of the kernel. what do i do??
2) when i do get it running (from root), how can i run other programs
(such as a browser or ftp or anything else) ? it is the foreground
process and if i kill it i lose the connection.
i cannot enter other commands because it won't let me.
3) the connection keeps stopping and i have to keep re-dialing to my
isp.
there has GOT to be a way around all these problems. right?
tia.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "pg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable Modem/Routing Problem?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 12:47:19 GMT
R. Terpilowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi there,
> I have searched long and hard through the newsgroups as well as several
> books and was up pretty late last night trying to figure this thing out,
> but with no luck. Here's my problem. I have just got a cable modem and I
> am trying to connect to the @home network with RH6.0 . I have a static ip
> and my network card has been detected ok so it looks like i'm good to go.
> I believe that I have set everything up under the netcfg ok (ip, gateway,
> DNS servers), but i'm
> having some problems. When i try to ping one of @home's DNS servers i
> either get a message saying that the network is unreachable or my machine
> will just sit there pinging and then state 50 packets sent 0 recieved. I
> was able to connect to the network alright under windoze.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
> Please let me know if you need more info.
> I would also appreciate an emailed copy of your response
>
> TIA
>
> Rob
> --------------------
Rob,
1st things 1st. Secure that Linux box before you get onto the
Internet. As a cable modem user you are going to be scanned many, many
times. So...before you connect - secure it !
pg
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Date: 10 Sep 99 17:23:41 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: samba-2.0.5b vs rh6.0/any 2.2 kernel
>On 9 Sep 1999, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>See subject line. Installed RH6.0 on 5.2 system with working samba.
[...]
>AFAIK Red Hat compiles Samba without smbmount (and smbsh, for that
>matter). Don't know for sure, though, I use Suse. Get the source,
>./configure --with-smbmount --with-smbwrapper; make; make install and
>you should be up and running.
Thank You very much for that hint, it was fuel for another days
experimentation which was finally successfull, sort of. We tried
recompiling with those options, but it did not effect the error
smbclient was reporting.
After a few more hours of the 10,000 monkey's scene, we found that a
new error had popped up (possibly un-noticed but present earlier) after
we had given up on the recompile, and found an rpm that had the same
rev nums, but was half a meg bigger. It was slightly newer and had
that stuff in it. And some of them that had the same name in the
archive, were 100/1 different in sizes from what we'ed compiled. Our
compile probably didn't share libraries. :(
Now the error is that smbmount no longer accepts the "-P secret"
option as a password bypasser.
We *can* type it in, but we haven't figured out how to get past the
password thing since we can no longer do the various network mounts in
/etc/rc.d/rc.local as we had been doing before.
I've tried the sample file options of using -U name%secret shown for
smbclient in smbmounts invocation line, but thats a long delay with a
reject reply. smbclient also gets rejected even if the "%secret" is
correct.
We'ed really like this to be self starting by using it in the rc.local
file, but if its possible, somebody is gonna have to tell me how. :)
I've now spent the better part of a day purusing the new docs without
finding any clues as to how to do the mount without human
intervention. Human intervention that *must* know the password. And
there is only two of us. Its a 60 mile round trip drive for me, and
45 for the other person just to type a few characters.
We have scripts that access some of these shares every 15 minutes, and
having it disabled from 17:35 on a friday afternoon till sometime
monday when one of us discovers the scripts aren't getting anything
done because there was a power failure friday night is not my idea of
how to look professional on our web page which got no new news updates
for the whole weekend. Not to mention our mailbox overfloweth with
bitchy messages because the stale news from a week ago wasn't
over-written with new stories.
Cheers Michael,
Gene Heskett, Chief Engineer, WDTV, Weston/Clarksburg WV
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.5-22 SMP/ Hang under high traffic load?
Date: 11 Sep 1999 12:50:56 GMT
Reply-To: rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 08:22:56 -0400, John Murtari wrote:
>
> The "hang" has occurred twice in the last three days and
>it is QUITE a problem. Have see the following message on the
>console display:
>
> "Unable to handle kernel paging request"
> "Aiee, killing interrupt handler"
> "Kernel panic: Attempted to kill idle task"
>
> It appears the system does not "sync", so none of this gets
>into the log files.
>
This seems much more serious than what I was getting (slow network).
Bob T.
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: (simple?) pppd questions
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:21:30 GMT
If you've got Red Hat 6, then there is a check box in the configuration
menu that lets other users activate the interface. OR, you can add a
line to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0:
USERCTL="yes"
This will now let other users activate that interface. You may have to
add yourself to group pppusers.
- Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi. I've pulled out a considerable bit of hair trying to figure pppd
> out. A couple of the BASIC questions which plague me:
>
> 1) i can run pppd from "root" but not as an ordinary user. i cannot
> find an executable to change permissions on it, so i assume that it is
> part of the kernel. what do i do??
>
> 2) when i do get it running (from root), how can i run other programs
> (such as a browser or ftp or anything else) ? it is the foreground
> process and if i kill it i lose the connection.
> i cannot enter other commands because it won't let me.
>
> 3) the connection keeps stopping and i have to keep re-dialing to my
> isp.
>
> there has GOT to be a way around all these problems. right?
>
> tia.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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Scott Nolde
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: nic/pc problem
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:24:50 GMT
If this is a PCI card then remove the IRQ and io settings. This should
be it. I ran into the same kind of thing when I installed mine. Also,
the documentation states the card must be the master PCI slot.
You may not even need a reboot. I just kept going from mode 3
(multiuser) to mode 1 (single user, no networl). This may save you some
time and you can watch the boot log, also.
- Scott
Sal wrote:
>
> I installed rh6.0 in my old pc pentium 90and then i installed a
> linksys 10/100 etherfast .But i just can't make it work.
> At this point I don't know whether it is a nic problem or a compatibility
> problem between my OLD pc hardware and the nic.
> i set it up as irq=10 and 1/o=0x300 and I'm using tulip asa driver.
> i go to all the steps to configure it ie. Net config and kernel config.
> i know i'm doing that part correctly.and it appears ok in
> /etc/conf.modules >> alias etho tulip
> options eth0 io=0x300 irq=10
>
> However ifconfig -a never shows eth0
> and ifconfig eth0 >> eth0:error fetching interface:device not found
> Now, when i reboot i get a message that eth0 can not be initialized.
> when i type dmesg | more some of the info printed says
> Unknown tulip-style PCI ethernet chip
> type 11ad c115 detected; not configured
> RZ1000 IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 08
> RZ1000 device not capable of full native PCI mode
> RZ1000 devise disable (bios)
>
> have no idea what that means. I tried disableing plug and play
> and it did not work either.
>
> ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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Scott Nolde
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From: "Ernest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Browsers and Linux
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 14:04:55 +0200
Andre van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Op Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:37:59 +0200 is het volgende aan Ernest ontsproten:
> I believe there is, however stop whining `I can do whatever i want, i don't
> want to do it your way.' I didn't see you reply to my *argument* about
> readability.
I still think communication dictates the standard. Sometimes it
is better to post at the top, sometimes in the middle and then there is times
to post at the bottom. Please repost my message where i said 'I can do
whatever i want, i don't want to do it your way.' What may find that I said
that I should have the right to decide and you not force me. Totally two
different things not so?
I don't seem to have got your post. Ha, just thought why I may not have seen
it. It may have been posted at the bottom of a long message. Possibly so?
Please post it again. The method I use now seems to be the best when there are
multiple comments to be made on one post. Why should I only post at the
bottom, (or at the top or even in the middle) as this news group insists?
> Do you agree that a consistent method of quoting increases
> readability in long threads?
There seems to be some confusion here. This newsgroup insists that you may
only post at the bottom. No matter the length of the thread!! Read again
BOTTOM ONLY!! What has the thread length got to do with consistency?
Ernest.
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From: "Ernest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Browsers and Linux
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:33:51 +0200
So, are one of those that bitch and tell me to post at the bottom or else ...
Or, will you ignore my post if I post at the top?
Ernest.
Andre van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Op Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:44:03 +0200 is het volgende aan Ernest ontsproten:
> Who talks about Netscape? I'm using Vim man.
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Home network, wingate, linux as proxy, etc.
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:32:31 GMT
Informative, but not out of date. ipchains can act as a firewall and
block/redirect ports. You can also use squid to act as a proxy server.
Look further...
- Scott
Jason Rosenberg wrote:
>
> Scott,
>
> I looked at the various HOWTO's, they seem informative, yet
> out of date.
>
> One question I have regards being able have a web-server,
> which in my particular case must run on Windows NT, and
> have it be available externally, and yet have that system
> still be hidden behind the firewall. Do such solutions
> exist?
>
> That was why I was thinking that I would need to have
> my proxy server be the NT machine.
>
> Jason
>
> Scott Nolde wrote:
> >
> > In the simplest terms, Linux does not restrict how many clients you have
> > masquerading behind the gateway IP address. Linux has firewall
> > services, too. Please look into Linux before buying Wingate. It could
> > save you several bucks. Plus Linux is 'free' or very inexpensive.
> >
> > Linux is an ideal solution for your needs. Inexpensive and simple to
> > implement.
> >
> > Also, look into the HOWTO's in the Linux Documentation Project:
> > mirror site: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/
> >
> > - Scott
> >
> > Jason Rosenberg wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am interested in setting up a home network.
> > > Currently, I have a single Windows NT machine,
> > > connected to a cable modem. I am looking at
> > > expanding things, so that I will have a second
> > > NT workstation, an NT laptop (which will come
> > > and go), and eventually a linux system.
> > >
> > > I have been looking at using WinGate to access the
> > > cable modem from anywhere on the local net. I am
> > > wondering if linux (and other Unixes, Macs, for that matter),
> > > will work as clients to the wingate server, which will
> > > be one of the NT systems. The WinGate home page doesn't
> > > seem to indicate much support for varied client os support,
> > > but I am wondering whether it will work anyway.
> > >
> > > I am looking at WinGate since it has been highly recommended,
> > > and it seems easy to install and use, and it has firewall
> > > capabilities.
> > >
> > > Naturally, I am also interested in knowing what linux has to
> > > offer in terms as acting as my proxy server and fire-wall.
> > > I'm not too educated on linux to date, but I do have extensive
> > > experience with other flavors of unix.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any info,
> > >
> > > Jason
> >
> > --
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > Scott Nolde
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ------------------------------------------------
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From: "Jeff Szczepanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable Modem/Routing Problem?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 09:44:37 -0400
> 2) Is my network card running ?
> Check : Ping [Your Machine's IP adress]
>
> Be ware that the second check is not always conclusive, i had a case that
I
> had an IRQ conflict, causing my pings to outgoing networks to fail but my
> card replied ok !
Any decent TCP/IP stack will echo this back at the IP layer. This won't test
the Ethernet card at all. You need to ping a remote machine!
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