Annoying Mcast Packets

2002-04-17 Thread David Gardi
Hi to all, I have recently changed dialup ISP, and since then tcpdump is reporting strange packets going to a variety of 224.0.0.0/4 addresses from apparently the dialup node I'm connect to. Here are a two examples: tcpdump: listening on ppp0 00:48:43.928630 195.130.232.243 > 224.0.0.1: igmp q

Inline gpg and Mutt

2002-04-01 Thread David Gardi
Hi folkes, My problem is this. When I send signed and/or encrypted mail with mutt 1.3.28-1 using Gnug 1.0.6-3, the UA that recieves it gets them as attachments. My aim is to get them to destination as part of the message. I have followed some links from google and they all seem to point into co

Re: ipchains

2002-04-01 Thread David Gardi
Bodnyk, Bruce W wrote: How do i: 1) Add the necessary rules to allow me to telnet into my firewall? ipchains -I input 1 -p tcp --destination IP_ADDRESS_OF_FIREWALL --dport 23 -j ACCEPT 2) What rules do I need to allow access to my apache web server that is not on the firewall but instal

ISDN Crypto Router problem

2002-03-23 Thread David Gardi
Hi to all, I am in posession of this small router device that has 1 ethernet and 1 ISDN plug. By sticking this device onto my network it can perform various services such as NAT, dialout(ISDN) and some routing. It is configurable by telnetting to it by IP. The problem is that it is an old piec

qmail postmanster passwd

2002-03-06 Thread David Gardi
Hi, anyone know how to change postmaster password using qmail? David.

qmail postmaster password

2002-03-03 Thread David Gardi
anyone know how to change postmaster passwc using qmail?

qmail postmaster password

2002-03-03 Thread David Gardi
anyone know how to change postmaster passwc using qmail?

funcard eeprom

2002-03-01 Thread David Gardi
Hi, Was wondering if there exists an eeprom editor for linux able to program an AT90S8515 chip. A google search brought up strange results in non english language. Thanks, David.

funcard eeprom

2002-03-01 Thread David Gardi
Hi, Was wondering if there exists an eeprom editor for linux able to program an AT90S8515 chip. A google search brought up strange results in non english language. Thanks, David.

Advice on HTML book

2002-02-27 Thread David Gardi
Hi, Please excuse this non-Linux related post. I am planning to purchase an HTML book that provides good, indepth explanations of how to use HTML. I am undecided on these two books 1) "HTML 4 for the World Wide Web" by Elizabeth Castro 2) "HTML: the Complete Reference" Third Edition by Thomas A.

Locale e caratteri italiani

2002-02-25 Thread David Gardi
Ciao, Trovo problematico usare il supporto per il display di caratteri italiani es. e con l'accento ecc... Dopo aver settato la variabile cosi': export LANG=it_IT locale mi dice: LANG=it_IT LC_CTYPE="it_IT" LC_NUMERIC="it_IT" LC_TIME="it_IT" LC_COLLATE="it_IT" LC_MONETARY="it_IT" LC_MESSAGES="it

diald problem

2002-02-04 Thread David Gardi
Hello, I have diald 0.99.1-1 and I think I have set things up properly put it is still not working. I have replaces the contents of /etc/diald/connect with "pppd call name" which is what I use to bring up my ppp link. I have set things up for modem use, and dynamic IP. When I start diald from /etc

Re: IP Chains question - under 2.4.x

2002-02-01 Thread David Gardi
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya i donno what all the major features/advances of iptables is over ipchains..but... ipchains runs under 2.4.x kernels if you enable the "ipchains" modules in the firewall config section of the kernel - ipchains runs unmodified under 2.4... if you are using a gener

Re: IP Chains question

2002-01-31 Thread David Gardi
Rick Macdonald wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:08:45 -0500 (EST), Matt Kopishke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have set up a firewall using ipchains and the bridge patch (bridgein) under potato (2.2.19). The one snag I had was although the firewall

Re: insmod bttv does not find TV card--says no such device???

2002-01-23 Thread David Gardi
mikepolniak wrote: My Pinnacle studio PCTV pro card shows up in /proc/pci and i can load all the required modules (tuner, videodev,i2c)...but when i #insmod bttv card=52 ...it says no such device. Syslog shows : ... bttv: driver version 0.7.83 loaded ... bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k

sattellite connection for downloads

2002-01-18 Thread David Gardi
Hi, I might consider purchasing a dvb card and connect it to my dish for retrieving internet data via the sattellite. All uploads will continue to go via my 56K modem. There is an interesting HOWTO that explains how to configure this stuff under Linux. http://www.infodrom.org/Linux/HOWTO/Sat/Sat-H

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread David Gardi
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Does anyone out there use ICQ under Debian? So far I've tried licq and gaim with the ICQ plugin, and both of them have very annoying problems (messages get lost, or messages from previous sessions get delivered again on client startup... this is a problem when you have 20+ m

cdrecord input buffer

2002-01-16 Thread David Gardi
Hi everybody, I'm using a Plexwriter 24/10/40, but I have problems when I write at 10x. (havn't tried 24 yet [:)] ) My default input buffer is of 24m however I have tried using 64, 128 etc.. whatever I do, the buffer eventually reaches 0% (the bigger the buffer the slower it takes to get to 0) the

Re: cdrecord blank causes system block

2002-01-10 Thread David Gardi
Ken Leung wrote: is it have same problem when blanking under console not X ? Yes the problem remains regardless of whether I blank in console or X. David.

cdrecord blank causes system block

2002-01-10 Thread David Gardi
Hi people, I own a Philips CDRW 16x10x40. Things seem to be working normally (more or less) apart from one strange problem. When I do Ex. cdrecord blank=all The blanking process starts, and completes ok, but during the blanking process, the system freezes. I can't open an xterm, cannot perform

Re: CD-ROM mount problems

2001-12-29 Thread David Gardi
shock wrote: I've recently trashed a RH6.2 machine in favor of Debian Woody. This is an all SCSI machine, with a Plextor CD-RW. When I mount any CD, I get the following: # mount /cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom is not a block device /cdrom, through /etc/fstab, points to /dev/cdrom: # cat /etc/fstab

Re: Simple iptables rule to punch a hole in the firewall.

2001-12-28 Thread David Gardi
hanasaki wrote: Could someone help me out with a set of rules to NAT or MASQ port 500 on TCP and on UDP from the internal to the external network? Only connections originated on the internal network should be allowed. I have : iptables v1.2.4 Thanks, Here is what I used when I needed masq.

xawtv and xscreensaver

2001-12-28 Thread David Gardi
This is what happens: when xawtv is in full screen mode, and xscreensaver is set to take up the display in x seconds, xawtv image remains in the background. What I'd like to happen: When xawtv is in full screen mode, and xscreensaver is set take up the display in x seconds, xscreensaver should

Re: ping myself

2001-12-28 Thread David Gardi
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: If I can ping myself it means that the NIC is correctly installed? No, but it does mean lo (opposed to eth0) is working correctly. If you can ping your gateway, *then* your NIC is working correctly. This is what

Re: kernel compile err

2001-12-28 Thread David Gardi
Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:46:08AM +0530, harsha wrote: When I tried to patch the kernel 2.4.16 to 2.4.17 it failed. can't find file to patch at input line 4 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? Change into the top-level kernel source directory and use the

Re: kernel compile err

2001-12-28 Thread David Gardi
Colin Watson wrote: >On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:46:08AM +0530, harsha wrote: > >>When I tried to patch the kernel 2.4.16 to 2.4.17 it failed. >> >>can't find file to patch at input line 4 >>Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? >> > >Change into the top-level kernel source directory an

Re: ping myself

2001-12-28 Thread David Gardi
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! If I can ping myself it means that the NIC is correctly installed? TIA Marcelo It depends. If you ping localhost or 127.0.0.1 then no. If you have set up your NIC with an IP other than the loopback ie 192.168.0.1, and ifconfig ethx shows it together with a MAC

Re: dpkg upgrade error

2001-12-27 Thread David Gardi
Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: >When I looked at the preinst script, it seemed to be choking because >/usr/share/doc/libdb2-util wasn't a soft link. I think it may not >have even existed. I created a temporary directory, made >/usr/share/doc/libdb2-util a soft-link to it, tried it again, and >

Re: Firewall tutorial

2001-12-27 Thread David Gardi
Penguin wrote: I am a complete beginner to firewalls, I would like to know if they can do these things: - record history of packets grouping by port number, TCP or UDP (or whatever?), data size if any, and any suspicious things like ICMP flood. It starts recording the moment you tell it to,

Mozilla and Galeon

2001-12-27 Thread David Gardi
Hi, I have a problem with using both mozilla and galeon at the same time. I upgraded mozilla to 0.9.7, using apt-get and this involved the removal of galeon since they cannot work in conjunction with each other. Galeon currently only works with 0.9.6 version of mozilla. My problem is that Gale

Re: Uninstalling Programs

2001-12-26 Thread David Gardi
ShlopIndustries Master wrote: I am running potato for the first time on a m68k mac. I installed x windows, which I do not want. How do I uninstall? I have never really used Debian PLEASE HELP!!! _ Get your FREE download of MSN Ex

dpkg upgrade error

2001-12-26 Thread David Gardi
Hi, I've just done an apt-get upgrade, and this is the error. Unpacking replacement gkrellmms ... Preparing to replace libdb2-util 2:2.7.7.0-2 (using .../libdb2-util_2%3a2.7.7.0-3_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb2-util_2%3a2.7.7.0-3_i386.deb (--unpack): subpro

cdrecording

2001-12-26 Thread David Gardi
Hello people, I' using cdrecord 1.10-2.2, and when I record audio cds, I am able only to speed at 1x. My recorder is a 4x capable drive, and if I try and record at a higher speed, the audio plays back faster than it should. Data cds work as expected. I did not have this problem with previous ve

Re: ppp problems

2001-12-26 Thread David Gardi
Dan Pomohaci wrote: Hi, I'm using Debian Woody (kernel 2.2.20 and ppp version 2.4.1). I tried to connect to my ISP but until now I had no success. I have an external modem and I used pppconfig (chat protocol) to set the connection parameters. After I run the command: pon myprovider the modem f

Re: kernel compile problems

2001-12-25 Thread David Gardi
John S. J. Anderson wrote: >Greetings -- > >I've been setting up a new Athlon system (thanks Santa!), and I've >been having some kernel compile issues (linker bombing out, mainly). > >I was chalking it up to some Athlon quirk (power supply, cooling, >etc.), but just on the off chance I tried to r