Linux-Setup Digest #136, Volume #20 Thu, 30 Nov 00 12:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Virtual mem exhaust problem? (Dances With Crows)
Can I setup Linux from LAN? ("Michael")
Re: Can I setup Linux from LAN? (Kevin Croxen)
Re: Virtual mem exhaust problem? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can I setup Linux from LAN? (Johan De Wit)
Re: shutdown ("Martin Schmidt")
error message when powering down. (dana)
Re: netscape 4.xx (Kirill Kozmin)
Re: Use Linux to share the broadband line (Kevin Croxen)
Re: netscape 4.xx (Toby Haynes)
Re: Virtual mem exhaust problem? (Floyd Davidson)
Re: shutdown (Eric)
partition install help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Continuing : lilo's parameters line don't pass to kernel. ("Migue")
Re: Problem rebuilding kernel (Bill Grzanich)
Re: shutdown (Bit Twister)
Re: HD off after boot - possible?? ("Juho L�nnblad")
Binary diff ? (John Beardmore)
Re: ?Howto set a $SOCKS environmental variable? (John Beardmore)
Re: Samba and really big files ? (John Beardmore)
Re: Help with LILO ("Martin Bourgie")
howto install driver module for par port external cdrom ? (DTi4565459)
Re: Use Linux to share the broadband line (Rod Smith)
Re: ftp and Red Hat 6.1 (Mike Raeder)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual mem exhaust problem?
Date: 30 Nov 2000 13:27:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:03:01 +0100, Eric wrote:
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=64
>> sync
>> sync
>> mkswap /swapfile
>> swapon /swapfile
>>
>> Add /swapfile to /etc/fstab to enable the extra swap space at boot time.
>
>Why would you sync there?
>Is there a good reason, or are you just afraid of crashes?
>I'm just curious.
Tradition. The dd command creates a honking big file, so it doesn't get
written to disk immediately unless you force it.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can I setup Linux from LAN?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:34:25 +0800
My notebook computer has a faulty CD-ROM I was wondering if I can setup from
LAN or any other way. But I don't want to spand ISP connection cost.
I hava a small LAN setup though. Thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: Can I setup Linux from LAN?
Date: 30 Nov 2000 13:58:20 GMT
In article <905l76$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael wrote:
>My notebook computer has a faulty CD-ROM I was wondering if I can setup from
>LAN or any other way. But I don't want to spand ISP connection cost.
>I hava a small LAN setup though. Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
Yes you can. Precisely how would depend on your LAN and which distro you
wish to use.
For example. Say the machine you wish to install from is a win95 box, and
the distro you wish to install is Suse. You could install one of the small
freeware ftp servers from the web onto your windows machine, and put the
Suse files on some directory recognizable to the server on this windows
machine (or just leave the CD in the CDROM drive, making sure the drive is
visible to ftp).
Then on the laptop, boot from Suse's YAST bootdisk, running through YAST's
setup menu, load PCMCIA and Network card modules from one of the 2 modules
diskettes (if necessary), assign your laptop an address within your LAN in
the appropriate YAST menu, tell it the IP of the windows machine the Linux
files are on, and provide the path to the files for when it connects via
ftp. Then let it chug through an ftp install.
Other distros have similar possibilities, nor is this the only way of
doing a LAN install on a laptop.
If the machine you're installing from is already running Linux, then life
is easier still, as all you don't have to worry about 3rd party ftp
servers or unusual ftp happenings at the windows/Linux border; all you
have to do is mount the CDROM drive, boot the laptop from diskette as
above (or similar to above) and get busy ftp-installing.
--Kevin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Virtual mem exhaust problem?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:51:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chet Vora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am having Virtual Memory problems while compiling a particular app.
> I
> keep getting "Virtual memory exhausted" error so I decided to do a
> little investigation about the swap configuration on my RH6.2.
>
> On doing a df -h, I get
> Filesystem Size Used Av %use Mounted on
> /dev/hda6 1.4G .9G blah blah /
> /dev/hda1 19M 2.4M blah blah /boot
> /dev/hda5 1.4G .9G blah blah /home
>
> On doing free,
> total used avlable
> Mem 30M 29M .7M
> Swap: 68M 3.5M 64M
>
> Is the partition named "boot" the swap partition (this m/c was someone
> else's )? If so, why the disparity bet'en the sizes shown by df vs
> free
/boot is not the swap partition, it is the location of the main kernel
binary file (usually linked to an entry named '/boot/vmlinuz')
> ? Or is it that df doen't show the swap partition ?
Correct, df does not show swap devices, nor does /etc/mtab or
/proc/mounts! The currently mounted swap devices can be listed using
the 'swapon -s' command, e.g.:
# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/hda5 partition 68504 28 -1
See also: man swapon
The swap devices to be mounted at boot should be listed in the
/etc/fstab file.
> Is a 68M swap size
> right or will I be benefitted by increasing it ?
If you are getting the Vmem exausted msg then increasing swap should
help.
> THis is a 32M RAM,180 MHz Pentium machine. Would also appreciate
> feedback about how to resolve the "Virtual Mem exhaust" problem. I'm
> trying to compile a protocol stack which in turn uses flex and yacc.
> Any pointers will be welcome.
Add some more swap space, if you have no free space for another
partition then create a swap file as per "Dances With Crows" post.
(file based swap is slower than a swap partition since it has to go
through the e2fs filesystem for access)
HTH
Bluster
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Before you buy.
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From: Johan De Wit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I setup Linux from LAN?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:56:21 GMT
Yep
via ftp
via nfs
to be available on your lan
Jo
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From: "Martin Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shutdown
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:08:51 +0100
guest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> What is the easiest way to configure normal user account to have
> priviliges to shutdown machine?
>
> thanx4help
> guest
>
>
Do you know sudo ?
If not try the manpages
man sudo
man sudoers
If you need an easy example i may provide you with one .
Martin
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Crossposted-To: redhat.general,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
From: dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: error message when powering down.
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:17:03 GMT
What does all this mean? aumix: error opening mixer[] sending all
processes the kill signal.. md: recovery thread got woken up md recovery
finished md recoveryd(6) flushing signals.
What does all this mean? I am blind, and had to put all this on tape to
type it, too much to remember. Please e-mail back, or post in the news
group.
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From: Kirill Kozmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: netscape 4.xx
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:17:46 +0100
>
> But now I have the problem that when composing a mail message, the
> address completion does not work, and when I try to get the address from
> the address book, Netscape will crash.
======= Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2000=04=19 02:15
=======
(to recap part of an off-line discussion)
> grep locale $HOME/.netscape/*.js says:
>
> /home/cnhr/.netscape/liprefs.js:user_pref("ldap_2.servers.pab.locale",
"en_US");
>
/home/cnhr/.netscape/preferences.js:user_pref("ldap_2.servers.pab.locale",
"en_US");
Close all netscape windows, and remove these lines from those files;
that
should solve the problem in this case.
ref: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10433
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: Use Linux to share the broadband line
Date: 30 Nov 2000 14:09:18 GMT
The technique is called IP Masquerading; and all current distros have the
capability of doing it out-of-the box, with no other software required.
Check the how-to documents on ip masquerading and ip chains at (among
other places) www.linux.org
But don't forget that the Linux machine doing this essentially becomes a
firewall, and since Linux is a wide-open networking OS by default, you'll
want to spend some time reading a good Linux security manual or two so as
to be able to minimize the potential of this Linux firewall being
hacked. Shutting off obvious unnecessary services and such.
In article <9055cm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, test wrote:
>Our company lease the ADSL line and we want to setup a Linux setup to share
>the broadband line with two network cards inserted.
>
>Do anybody tells me how to configure and use what software to do such a
>project ?
>
>
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From: Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: netscape 4.xx
Date: 30 Nov 2000 09:40:32 -0500
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am a new comer in the linux world. Please could you tell me how to
> upgrade and what I should upgrade in order to get rid of the problem
This will give you an installation of a Mozilla nightly build - just follow the
instructions. This is more of a trial installation, so if you don't like it,
you can just delete the whole mozilla directory and get rid of it.
Goto www.mozilla.org, and click on the link i386_Linux under 'Nightly Builds'
to download the Linux binary tarball. Save the file in your home directory for
preference.
mkdir mozilla
cd mozilla
Now this command unpacks the mozilla tarball into the current directory - make
sure your home directory name is correct (I just guessed).
tar zxvf ../mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
Go back to your home directory
cd
Now you should be able to run Mozilla with the command
mozilla/package/mozilla &
You'll need to set it up. You can run Netscape side by side and compare the two
configuration files.
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
--
Toby Haynes
The views and opinions expressed in this message are my own, and do
not necessarily reflect those of IBM Canada.
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual mem exhaust problem?
Date: 30 Nov 2000 05:07:26 -0900
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:03:01 +0100, Eric wrote:
>>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=64
>>> sync
>>> sync
>>> mkswap /swapfile
>>> swapon /swapfile
>>>
>>> Add /swapfile to /etc/fstab to enable the extra swap space at boot time.
>>
>>Why would you sync there?
>>Is there a good reason, or are you just afraid of crashes?
>>I'm just curious.
>
>Tradition. The dd command creates a honking big file, so it doesn't get
>written to disk immediately unless you force it.
Which begs a couple of questions. First, does it make any
difference at all? Second, if it makes a difference why would
mkswap or swapon not do it?
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shutdown
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:20:46 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
guest wrote:
>
> What is the easiest way to configure normal user account to have
> priviliges to shutdown machine?
>
ctrl-alt-del doesn't work?
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: partition install help
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:22:27 GMT
I'm attempting to install Linux on a 5GB partition that is well beyond
the 1024 cylinder on my hdd - I would prefer to have Linux to be the
secondary OS and reside "behind" my 15GB Win98 Partition...I have
checked the HOWTO's and FAQ's and still can't quite seem to get this
right....This will be a dual boot system - is this possible with
LILO/Loadlin? Corel or RedHad 6.2 can be used - any ideas would be
appreciated. TIA
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Migue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Continuing : lilo's parameters line don't pass to kernel.
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:36:35 +0100
The problem persist , I think thats the console parameter and other don't
pass to the kernel , I have other machine that have the same problem , and
lilo is it:
[root@chuwaka /root]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/ida/c0d0
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=prueba
serial=0,9600n8
linear
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20smp
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20smp.img
read-only
root=/dev/ida/c0d0p5
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16
label=prueba
append="console=ttyS0,9600"
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.16.img
root=/dev/ida/c0d0p5
And /proc/cmdline say thats
[root@chuwaka /root]# cat /proc/cmdline
auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=4805
But when I pass it in the command line its work .
There are some form to pass this comand line identicaly that I put it in
lilo prompt to the kernel ??
> Thats is my problem , the command line for lilo is too long and kernel
don't
> understand it .
>
> � How can I put thats line ?
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> --------------
> cat /etc/lilo.conf
>
> ...
> image=/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> append="smart2=0x6000 sim710=addr:0x9000,irq:11 console=ttyS1,9600
> mem=64M"
> # initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/ida/c0d0p1
> ....
>
> [root@indalo /root]# cat /proc/cmdline
> auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=4801 smart2=0x6000 sim710=addr:0x9000,irq:11
> con
> [root@indalo /root]#
>
>
Some answers don't take any efect.
append="first looooooooooooooooooooooooooong line \
second loooooooooooooooong line"
append="smart2=0x6000 sim710=addr:0x9000,irq:11"
append=" console=ttyS1,9600 mem=64M"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Grzanich)
Subject: Re: Problem rebuilding kernel
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:49:47 GMT
Hi, Robert.
[snip]
>System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules.
>make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 1
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/arch/i386/boot'
>make: *** [zImage] Error 2
make is trying to tell you how to correct the problem: instead of typing "make
zImage", type "make bzImage" (without the quotes, of course).
Or, configure more of the options as modules.
The problem here is that the resulting kernel is too large. From my aging
copy of "Red Hat Linux Unleashed":
"When loading your kernel for the first time after a reboot, you might get the
error that the kernel is too large. This happens because the kernel is
compressed during the build procedure and then decompressed at boot time.
Because of the nature of the Intel architecture, the kernel must be able to
decompress within the first 1 MB of memory, and if it can't, the system can't
boot.
If you receive the "Kernel is too large" message, reboot and choose your old
backup kernel to boot from.
At this point you have two choices: You can either go reconfigure your kernel
and trim down unnecessary items by either not including them or using them as
modules, or you can use 'make bzImage' to build another kernel tha can work
around the kernel size limitation."
I hope this helps. Good luck.
-Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: shutdown
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:14:50 GMT
If you are the only user on the system, as root, do
chmod +s /sbin/shutdown
You can then place an alias in /etc/bashrc to do the
shutdown command with your arguments.
Examples:
alias restart='/sbin/shutdown -t 3 -fr now' # reboot pc
alias stop='/sbin/shutdown -t 3 -h now' # stop linux/pc
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:12:47 GMT, guest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What is the easiest way to configure normal user account to have
>priviliges to shutdown machine?
>
--
The warranty and liability expired as you read this message.
If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
Do a, man command_here or cat command_here, before using it.
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From: "Juho L�nnblad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HD off after boot - possible??
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:25:10 +0200
> Why not remove the hard drive and use a floppy disk only linux distro?
> There is a good one tuned for two ethernet interfaces here:
>
> http://zelow.no/floppyfw/
>
> HTH
> Bluster
Thanks! I checked the floppyfw site and I think it will sort out my current
problem.
But while I'm at it, is there a way to for example configure a linux
workstation like this:
1) Normally, everything's running, hd's on etc. Used as a workstation.
2) When not used, the machine is put to "sleep" so that only the "router"
including masq and other basic stuff is running, not needing to use the HD.
A kind of a stealth mode, if you like...:)
I was thinking about loading almost everything as modules and then
configuring one runlevel as a "sleep mode" where all unnecessary stuff gets
unloaded. But then, I'm no guru about linux (or much else). Anyone's done
this before? Suggestions?
--Juho
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Binary diff ?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:59:23 +0000
What does Linux do for a recursive binary diff utility ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ?Howto set a $SOCKS environmental variable?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:52:09 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, DTi4565459
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>When I try to start Netscape from KDE, I get error message as
>in Subject above.
Is that $SOCKS_NS or just $SOCKS ?
Did you get a fix for this ? In Alpha RH6.2 I get an 'unable to locate
server' error then a 'Warning: the following hosts are unknown' message
which goes on to suggest that I set $SOCKS_NS to point at a name server,
but I don't know how sensible this is I have no local name server and
I'm not permanently connected to the Internet.
What's stranger still, is that when I'm connected, if I type
ftp homepages.demon.co.uk
the name is resolved, so Linux is clearly finding a name server, but
even under these circumstances, Netscape won't resolve names.
Is Netscape just a bit broken ?
> I guess I am trying to get to my university ISP
>from a non-university office computer where I am not root.
I'm getting it on a machine with a dial up connection to the net,
regardless of if I'm connected.
> I'm a
>newbie and really appreciate clues.
Me too. New to Linux anyway !
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba and really big files ?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:04:42 +0000
To add some more observations to this problem which I've still not solved...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Beardmore
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I've just set up Samba and as a test, tried to copy a directory from my
>Windows 2000 box to the share on Linux using the
>
> xcopy /shreik
>
>command. The xcopy seemed to go well, but when I tried to do a compare
>with a utility I wrote ages ago to recursively compare directories in MS
>environments, it fell over claiming that read() had failed.
>
>At first, I assumed this was a problem with my xdiff utility, but I
>found that when I tried comparing the files individually,
>
> fc /b
>
>from the win2k box, reported that the version on the Samba share was
>shorter than the w2k version.
>
>The file in question shows up as
>
> 348,584,960 bytes
>
>from the win2k machine both on the native NTFS disk and through Samba.
>Is there a problem doing sequential reads, 32k at a time on files this
>through Samba ?
When this problem has occurred, /var/log/samba/log.machine_name contains
references of the form:
[date and time, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(563)
write_socket: Error writing 3283 bytes to socket 6, Errno = Broken Pipe
Does that shed any more light on the issue ?
I've also discovered that if I mount a windows drive using
mount -t smbfs...
I can copy hundreds of meg of data around without error, so I doubt there is an
underlying network problem.
Any clues ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: "Martin Bourgie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with LILO
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:39:00 -0500
"Galanis Stelios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:90134e$dqb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have win98 installed and i also want to install Linux. If i want to
be
> able at boot to choose my OS should i choose to install LILO at MBR?
During
> installation i take a message from LILO, something about the 1024
cylinder.
> What does this mean?
It means that if you already have windows something installed and it's
bigger then about 3 gig ( partition regardless of the type ) then LILO will
not be able to find your LINUX boot partion. The way to go around this is to
use a tool like Partition Magic and to create a /boot partition of about 50
megs ( it could be smaller but I did see someone suggest it...it's probably
so that you can build another kernel or something in that style ).
The 2 links I found the most useful about it where the following :
http://mops.uci.agh.edu.pl/doc/lilo/ for the LILO docs
and
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/kgw_lilo_errmsg.html
for the LILO error msgs.
What to do about it? (Note that i want to be able to do
> dual boot).
> Thanks for your help.
good luck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DTi4565459)
Date: 30 Nov 2000 16:49:36 GMT
Subject: howto install driver module for par port external cdrom ?
Above pretty much says it. This particular setup is running Caldera 2.3 and an
EXP backpack, but if there is a generic solution that would make things easier
on some other machines I am working on.
dave
http://www.columbia.edu/~mdt1/
(1 = one, not little L; and don't forget the trailing / )
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Use Linux to share the broadband line
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:49:54 GMT
In article <9055cm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"test" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Our company lease the ADSL line and we want to setup a Linux setup to share
> the broadband line with two network cards inserted.
>
> Do anybody tells me how to configure and use what software to do such a
> project ?
Linux can easily handle this task, using a technique known as IP
masquerading (it's called NAT on other platforms). You should read the
Linux IP masquerading and ipchains HOWTO documents (available with most
distributions, at http://www.linuxdoc.org, and elsewhere). It's also
covered in many introductory Linux networking books, including my own
_Linux: Networking for Your Office_ (http://www.rodsbooks.com/network/).
Be aware that there are security implications to this, but not really
any more than directly connecting the system to the Internet without
doing IP masquerading.
Another alternative, which is a bit simpler but more expensive, is to
use a hardware NAT-capable router/firewall, like the NetGear RT314/ZyXEL
P314 twins, the Linksys BEFSR41, or various others. (Check
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/reviews/ for reviews of several.)
These cost $100-$500, depending upon features, and are usually easier to
set up but less flexible than a Linux box doing IP masquerading. They're
suitable for small offices and home configurations. Big companies need
much more capable hardware, but big companies aren't likely to be using
a single ADSL connection, so I suspect yours is a small firm, or at most
a small office of a bigger company.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Mike Raeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftp and Red Hat 6.1
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 02:05:43 -0500
GMalseed wrote:
>
> I have Red Hat 6.1 and NT/ Win 98 Boxes on a network. I cannot
> get an ftp session from the NT box, as the Linux machine always
> drops the connection. Any reason why this should happen ?
check out your /etc/inetd.conf file and see if ftp is listed or commented out
there.
you also might want to type $>whereis ftpd to make sure that it exists on your
system.
--
Since-beer-leekz,
Mikey
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit
materiari?
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