Re: A minimalist network

On 08/17/2016 03:27 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I am groping for the questions I *SHOULD BE* asking ;/ Q: How does Ethernet work? Q: How do TCP/IP local area networks work? Q: How does the Internet work? https://www.amazon.com/Networking-Dummies-Doug-Lowe/dp/B01FBEEOBU/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&i

Re: A minimalist network

On 08/17/2016 03:27 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I am groping for the questions I *SHOULD BE* asking ;/ Q: How does Ethernet work? Q: How do TCP/IP local area networks work? Q: How does the Internet work? David

Re: A minimalist network

On 08/17/2016 02:14 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I did purchase an "8-Port Gigabit Switch". I don't intend open the > shrink wrap unless convinced there is no other way. As I've said > elsewhere a major motivation is educational. I'd recommend a residential router with WiFi, Gigabit ports, and full

Re: A minimalist network

On 08/17/2016 07:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. > > The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie installed. > Consider it a laboratory experiment. It can have multiple installs in a > day. It intentionally has *NO* internet connectivity.

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Re: A minimalist network

On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Now that this list has kindly helped me learn how, I use ssh all the time on > my small home network; but I must admit I use it more for admin than for > moving files, though I also use it for moving files. Same here, but the crypto required by ssh/scp an

Re: A minimalist network

On 8/17/16 6:46 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/17/2016 4:34 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 09:45:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie installed. Consider it a laboratory experiment.

Re: A minimalist network

On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 05:45:47 PM Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 8/17/16 5:33 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > As stated by someone else, you need a crossover cable--or something > > equivalent, like plug cables from both machines into a switch, router, or > > hub, I think I've seen someone se

Re: A minimalist network

On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/17/2016 10:09 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > >>The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie > >>installed. Consider it a laboratory experiment. It can have > >>multiple installs in a day. It intentionally has *NO* internet > >>connectivi

Re: A minimalist network

On Wednesday 17 August 2016 22:14:24 Richard Owlett wrote: > Why would I be interested in ssh as both machines are sitting on > my desk and _neither_ will be connected to the internet when > ethernet connection is live? You need to use something to move the files form one machine to another, as h

Re: A minimalist network

On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 17:46:27 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/17/2016 4:34 PM, Brian wrote: > >On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 09:45:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. > >> > >>The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie installed. > >>

Re: exim4 under jessie vs wheezy

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Re: A minimalist network

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 05:27:13PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > Once you've got the physical layer sorted (that is, green blinky > > > > lights on both machines), then the rest of the configuration > > > > should be much the same as any network: > > > > * Either give the hosts unique, stati

Re: A minimalist network

On 8/17/2016 4:34 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 09:45:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie installed. Consider it a laboratory experiment. It can have multiple installs in a day. It in

Re: exim4 under jessie vs wheezy

> qobi@upplysingaoflun>all+n cat /etc/mailname > tlamachilistli: > tlamachilistli.ecn.purdue.edu > zhineng: > zhineng.ecn.purdue.edu This "all+n" intrigues me. What is it ? One of several simple scripts I wrote that run a command on different subsets of the machines I maintain.

Re: A minimalist network

On 8/17/2016 4:33 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 05:00:25 PM Richard Owlett wrote: Ahh the question is HOW Bought Cat6 straight thru cable. Neither machine has a light to blink, but both reacted indicating cable present - but no communication established YET. As s

Re: A minimalist network

On 8/17/16 6:33 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/17/2016 4:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2016 22:00:25 Richard Owlett wrote: If retirement is not for education, what use is it? To retire? Life is for education - retirement is for slowing down. Sadly. Perhaps a better

Re: A minimalist network

On 8/17/16 6:00 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 17:42:31 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 8/17/16 5:14 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Do I really want an "ftp server"? I can see the WinXP machine as a "server". Do I have problems with definitions? Something has to talk, something has to l

Re: A minimalist network

On 8/17/2016 4:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2016 22:00:25 Richard Owlett wrote: If retirement is not for education, what use is it? To retire? Life is for education - retirement is for slowing down. Sadly. Perhaps a better phraseology would be "Retirement is for learnin

Re: A minimalist network

On 8/17/2016 4:11 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 8/17/16 5:00 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/17/2016 10:09 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:45:39AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. The Debian machine is having various configurations of

Re: A minimalist network

On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 17:42:31 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 8/17/16 5:14 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > >Do I really want an "ftp server"? I can see the WinXP machine as a > >"server". Do I have problems with definitions? > > Something has to talk, something has to listen and respond. Even

Re: A minimalist network

On 8/17/16 5:33 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 05:00:25 PM Richard Owlett wrote: Ahh the question is HOW Bought Cat6 straight thru cable. Neither machine has a light to blink, but both reacted indicating cable present - but no communication established YET. As st

Re: A minimalist network

On 8/17/16 5:14 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/17/2016 10:34 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 8/17/16 11:09 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:45:39AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. The Debian machine is having various configurations of

Re: A minimalist network

On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 09:45:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. > > The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie installed. > Consider it a laboratory experiment. It can have multiple installs in a day. > It intentionally has *NO* interne

Re: A minimalist network

On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 05:00:25 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > Ahh the question is HOW > Bought Cat6 straight thru cable. Neither machine has a light to > blink, but both reacted indicating cable present - but no > communication established YET. As stated by someone else, you need a crossover

Re: A minimalist network

On Wednesday 17 August 2016 21:48:20 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/17/2016 10:05 AM, der.hans wrote: > > Am 16. Aug, 2016 schwätzte Richard Owlett so: > > > > moin moin Richard, > > > > look at zeroconf. Both machines can independently setup > > networking to talk > > to each other. > > The web hits

Re: A minimalist network

On 8/17/2016 10:34 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 8/17/16 11:09 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:45:39AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie installed. Consider it a laboratory e

Re: A minimalist network

On Wednesday 17 August 2016 22:00:25 Richard Owlett wrote: > If retirement is not for education, what use is it? To retire? Life is for education - retirement is for slowing down. Sadly. Lisi

Re: A minimalist network

On 8/17/16 5:00 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/17/2016 10:09 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:45:39AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie installed. Consider it a laboratory ex

Re: A minimalist network

On 8/17/2016 10:09 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:45:39AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie installed. Consider it a laboratory experiment. It can have multiple installs in a

Re: A minimalist network

On 8/17/2016 10:05 AM, der.hans wrote: Am 16. Aug, 2016 schwätzte Richard Owlett so: moin moin Richard, look at zeroconf. Both machines can independently setup networking to talk to each other. The web hits I got for zeroconf indicated it's part of a support package for KDE, I'm using Mate.

Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 19:57:25 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 14:27:16 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 01:32:47PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > Having said that, if you want something truly decentralized you might look > > > at: > > > - gnutella chat > >

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:55:12AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:16:01 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > >> > - Shrinking: > [...] >> > - Growing > [...] > >> And I sit here with eg

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

Brian wrote: > Is this advice based on experience? haha - this makes me smile. One should never forget this list is public and whole world can read it. Based on experience from last year (debian jessie) it is not possible to shrink. Extending works very good and straight forward. regards

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:38:50AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > This last link is from 2008. It does seem to be difficult, and only > accomplishable by a full dump, repartition and recovery. The latter > would not be a problem if a regular backup is being done. But I've no > knowldge about how

Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 14:27:16 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 01:32:47PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Having said that, if you want something truly decentralized you might look > > at: > > - gnutella chat > > It is decentralized, and as a result cannot implement reliable >

Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 01:32:47PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote > > > I'm looking for a decentralized instant message system (e.g. XMPP, SIP, > > ...) where I can be sure that I receive all messages, even if I'm not > > connected when the message is sent [ Obviously, I'll o

Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 10:52:00 +0430, Amir H. Firouzian wrote: > I think you looking for TOX! > Visit TOX Project website: > https://tox.chat I'd not heard of this (why should I?). Is it regarded as a Skype competitor (we could do with a free one)? Is it going anywhere? And how does it perform te

Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

Stefan Monnier wrote I'm looking for a decentralized instant message system (e.g. XMPP, SIP, ...) where I can be sure that I receive all messages, even if I'm not connected when the message is sent [ Obviously, I'll only receive them when I'm back online. ] IIUC there is some XMPP features th

Re: exim4 under jessie vs wheezy

On 2016-08-16 18:35 -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > qobi@upplysingaoflun>all+n cat /etc/mailname > tlamachilistli: > tlamachilistli.ecn.purdue.edu > zhineng: > zhineng.ecn.purdue.edu This "all+n" intrigues me. What is it ? -- André Majorel One of the advan

Re: A minimalist network

On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 11:34:25 (-0400), Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 8/17/16 11:09 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > > >On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:45:39AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. > >> > >>The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie > >>i

Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

On 08/17/2016 10:41 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > How is sending by AOL decentralised? Hi Darac -- I suggested looking at pidgin and pidgin-otr to meet the stated needs. The fact that my use of AOL IM via pidgin was not such an example was not intended to mislead anyone. You are correct that AOL I

Re: A minimalist network

On 8/17/16 11:09 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:45:39AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie installed. Consider it a laboratory experiment. It can have multiple installs in

Re: A minimalist network

Am 16. Aug, 2016 schwätzte Richard Owlett so: moin moin Richard, look at zeroconf. Both machines can independently setup networking to talk to each other. I believe zeroconf came up somehow recently on a new box until I fixed the network cable, so it's likely an option during install. ciao, d

Re: A minimalist network

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:45:39AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie installed. Consider it a laboratory experiment. It can have multiple installs in a day. It intentionally has *NO* internet c

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:00:50AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > ZFS is a file system originating with Sun in 2005. I don't know anyone > who uses it. Largely considered experimental/unfinished outside of > Solaris. No. ZFS is in some contex

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:27:07AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2016 10:00:50 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:53:36AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:12:40 Brian wrote: > > You would advise using gparted to shrink an XFS partition

A minimalist network

I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet. The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie installed. Consider it a laboratory experiment. It can have multiple installs in a day. It intentionally has *NO* internet connectivity. It has a small partition set aside for preseed.cfg

Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:17:26AM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: On 08/12/2016 10:49 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: I'm looking for a decentralized instant message system (e.g. XMPP, SIP, ...) where I can be sure that I receive all messages, even if I'm not connected when the message is sent [ Obviously,

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

On Wednesday 17 August 2016 10:00:50 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:53:36AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:12:40 Brian wrote: > > > You would advise using gparted to shrink an XFS partition in spite > > > of > > > > > > http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 09:53:36 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:12:40 Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 08:54:47 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 03:43:36 ML mail wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > > > > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two X

Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

On 08/12/2016 10:49 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I'm looking for a decentralized instant message system (e.g. XMPP, SIP, > ...) where I can be sure that I receive all messages, even if I'm not > connected when the message is sent [ Obviously, I'll only receive them > when I'm back online. ] > > II

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:59:56 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:55:12AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:16:01 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > - Shrinking: > > [...] > > > > - Growing > > [...] > > > And I sit here with egg on my f

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

Le 17/08/2016 à 15:31, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 03:28:57PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 17/08/2016 à 15:16, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : Gparted will grow (or shrink) the partition. Not the file system. AFAIK, Gparted does resize the filesystem too. On its own?

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:55:12AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:16:01 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > - Shrinking: [...] > > - Growing [...] > And I sit here with egg on my face. :( Not necessarily. Perhaps gparte

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:53:36AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:12:40 Brian wrote: > > You would advise using gparted to shrink an XFS partition in spite of > > > > http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_Is_there_a_way_to_make_a_XFS_files > >ystem_larger_or_smaller.3F

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:16:01 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 08:54:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 03:43:36 ML mail wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > > > > > > - /dev/sdb1 of

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:12:40 Brian wrote: > On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 08:54:47 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 03:43:36 ML mail wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > > > > > > - /dev/sdb1 of 4TB > > > - /de

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

On Wednesday 17 August 2016 04:05:03 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 05:49:39PM +1000, Igor Cicimov wrote: > > On 17 Aug 2016 5:43 pm, "ML mail" wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > > > > Afaik you cant shrink xfs fil

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 03:28:57PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 17/08/2016 à 15:16, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > > >Gparted will grow (or shrink) the partition. Not the file system. > > AFAIK, Gparted does resize the filesystem too. On its ow

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 08:54:47 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 03:43:36 ML mail wrote: > > > Hello > > > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > > > > - /dev/sdb1 of 4TB > > - /dev/sdb2 of 9TB > > > > Now I would like to decrease the first pa

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

Le 17/08/2016 à 15:16, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : Gparted will grow (or shrink) the partition. Not the file system. AFAIK, Gparted does resize the filesystem too.

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 08:54:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 03:43:36 ML mail wrote: > > > Hello > > > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > > > > - /dev/sdb1 of 4TB > > - /dev/sdb2 of 9TB

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Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

On Wednesday 17 August 2016 03:49:39 Igor Cicimov wrote: > On 17 Aug 2016 5:43 pm, "ML mail" wrote: > > Hello > > > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > > Afaik you cant shrink xfs file systems. > Is there a specific reason for that? > > - /dev/sdb1 of 4TB > > -

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

On Wednesday 17 August 2016 03:43:36 ML mail wrote: > Hello > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > > - /dev/sdb1 of 4TB > - /dev/sdb2 of 9TB > > Now I would like to decrease the first partition of 1TB in order to > increase the second partition by that very same 1T

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Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

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Re: exim4 under jessie vs wheezy

On Tue 16 Aug 2016 at 18:35:06 -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > qobi@upplysingaoflun>all+n cat /etc/mailname [...Long list snipped...] Exim uses /etc/mailname to qualify an unqualified address such as jeffrey or david. The file should contain a single line with the fully qualified domain nam

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Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 05:49:39PM +1000, Igor Cicimov wrote: > On 17 Aug 2016 5:43 pm, "ML mail" wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > > > > Afaik you cant shrink xfs file systems. Right. S

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

On 17 Aug 2016 5:43 pm, "ML mail" wrote: > > Hello > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > Afaik you cant shrink xfs file systems. > - /dev/sdb1 of 4TB > - /dev/sdb2 of 9TB > > Now I would like to decrease the first partition of 1TB in order to increase the second