[Hampshire] Introducing Interlinux Engineering Foundation

2011-05-13 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi List For a host of reasons and what not, http://interlinux.co.uk is no more, including the departed blog Discovery Systems and several other sites. I (we) cut deep and hearty severed websites, slashed email addresses, hosting, google accounts, other passworded supported entities and

[Hampshire] Recommendations for a PPPoE Router for VDSL

2011-05-13 Thread Imran Chaudhry
Hi, I'm after some recommendations please for a VDSL router, the requirements are: * supports PPPoE (it's being used with Zen Fibre broadband) * Non-NAT mode * 8-ports * business-grade, eg. something in the £50 - £150 range? and beefier cpu and ram * it would be nice to have features like 3G for

Re: [Hampshire] Recommendations for a PPPoE Router for VDSL

2011-05-13 Thread Ian Grody
Your safest bet would be a routerboard, either the 750G or the 450G. http://linitx.com/viewcategory.php?catid=194 is probably the best place to get them from. As I understand it, version 5 of RouterOS supports mini-jumbos over PPP, allowing full 1500 MTU frame, yes, over PPPoE :-) (1508) They

Re: [Hampshire] NIS Client Curiosities

2011-05-13 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
I finally managed to sort this out. So for future reference, I'll tell you how. nscd was running. I stopped it and life is good. For those not familiar with nscd it is a Name Service Cache Daemon. From the description on the man page: Nscd is a daemon that provides a cache for the most common