Re: [Eug-lug]our LANL friend finds more fun

2002-10-08 Thread Mike O
Got to beat BobC to this one... Maybe it can help us regain our Folding glory we enjoyed for a short time. Eh? --- Ben Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dubbed “The Science Appliance” by the Laboratory’s researchers, the cluster is a model for future supercomputing systems that will

Re: [Eug-lug]Linux From Scratch:

2002-10-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:55:15PM -0700, Larry Price wrote: I think the real value of LFS is in the book that comes with it (in electronic format) and in the experience of putting together a working linux system. In other words do it for the experience as it will help you understand what's

[Eug-lug]Notebook LAN

2002-10-08 Thread Joseph Carter
My notebook has non-PCMCIA LAN, and I'd like to make Linux a little smarter in how it deals with the device. Currently, I am manually raising and dropping the interface, but the network chip does know when there's a cable plugged in to it as most do. Windoze is smart enough to send out a DHCP

Re: [Eug-lug]Notebook LAN

2002-10-08 Thread Tim Howe
I don't think it would be that hard to check the status of an interface's link periodically and if found to be up, then run a dhcp client. This could probably be done with a 3 line script and cron. Also, if my unix workstation automatically assumed that it should run dhclient on an

Re: [Eug-lug]Notebook LAN

2002-10-08 Thread Cory Petkovsek
How do you switch between networks? I have a non-pcmcia lan card on my laptop. I also use a freeswan vpn. My laptop sleeps between networks. When I plug in to a new network, it resumes, the interface polls for a new dhcp address. If I'm not on my work lan, then the freeswan vpn connects.

[Eug-lug]DHCP on Debian

2002-10-08 Thread Rob Hudson
Still working on my firewall. I've got the iptables stuff running and have a custom firewall script to set up my rules. I went to test it out and forgot that I need DHCP to get an IP for me on ATT's cable network. Found Cory's piped commands to strip out a dynamic IP, though. :) Is anyone else

Re: [Eug-lug]DHCP on Debian

2002-10-08 Thread Cory Petkovsek
Rob, unless you are DNatting (portforwarding), you shouldn't need to put your ip address in your script. So any dhcp client will work. I'm using dhclient, the default on woody. If your interfaces only turn on or off when you reboot, then having scripts in init.d or if-down.d does the same

Re: [Eug-lug]DHCP on Debian

2002-10-08 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20021008.1148, Cory Petkovsek said ... Rob, unless you are DNatting (portforwarding), you shouldn't need to put your ip address in your script. So any dhcp client will work. I'm using dhclient, the default on woody. Can you explain this a little more? I guess I am port forwarding

Re: [Eug-lug]DHCP on Debian

2002-10-08 Thread Cory Petkovsek
Traffic coming from your private network (say 192.168.x or 10.x) is Source-Natted (SNAT) to get out to the internet. The source ip address (where it comes from) is replaced with the public ip address of the firewall. When response packets come in, the firewall un-snats them and returns them to

Re: [Eug-lug]DHCP on Debian

2002-10-08 Thread Rob Hudson
Cory, Dang. I've read numerous articles so far on iptables and firewalls and have never had NAT explained as clearly as this. Nice work. :) Totally makes sense now, and so does your comment about not needing the external IP unless you are DNatting. Thanks. I'll definitely want SNAT.

Re: [Eug-lug]Notebook LAN

2002-10-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:54:03AM -0700, Tim Howe wrote: I don't think it would be that hard to check the status of an interface's link periodically and if found to be up, then run a dhcp client. This could probably be done with a 3 line script and cron. Also, if my unix workstation

Re: [Eug-lug]Why is OpenOffice.org not part of Debian?

2002-10-08 Thread Seth Cohn
Debian politics mostly. See below. http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice/#news 2002-09-29 Ok .. after silent work, we have some news. First of all, Gerhard Tonn builded a package for OpenOffice.org on S390, so we have a third architecture with running OpenOffice.org on debian. You can find the

[Eug-lug][ My ISP search continues ]

2002-10-08 Thread Dexter Graphic
Well, I finally found an ISP I liked. Check out this great setup instructions page: http://www.express56.com/dun.shtml It's the best I've seen. It includes instructions for Linux and Free BSD. The service requires no special software and it costs only $6.95 per month--with no yearly