[Hampshire] Introducing Interlinux Engineering Foundation
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 mothballed 95% of our ancient hardware to reduce costs and consolidate. The accidental green flare was hastily extinguished. All is not lost! - far from it... I have created a little foundation - Interlinux Engineering Foundation. This design is the most sustainable and suitable I could dream up (to last many years). The company sinks into dormancy (all IP and know-how is permanently locked in and accounted for) and a small trust fund will be created if necessary. Administration time and expenses have been chopped and the bare essential oils kept alive. We banked then ditched at speed and sank significant, remaining pre-invested resources into this - without burning up on re-entry. Check out the new website to see the end result http://www.interlinux.org.uk In due course I may offer some kind membership benefits to contributors. The foundation remains loyal to HLUG and I have noted the group in the community section. There is a little rebuilding left to do using the best bytes, which are stored neatly in the cupboard - illuminated using a wind-up LED battery lamp - not candles. Damian Interlinux Engineering Foundation http://www.interlinux.org.uk Central, non-trading, administration, governance and dissemination of foundation intellectual property and know-how. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] Recommendations for a PPPoE Router for VDSL
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 internet failover Thanks! -- GPG Key fingerprint = B323 477E F6AB 4181 9C65 F637 BC5F 7FCC 9CC9 CC7F “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” - Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Recommendations for a PPPoE Router for VDSL
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 do NATless, as well as can native or tunnel IPv6. They are not for the faint hearted, non-techie though. The only thing it falls on, it is 5 ports. However, it will happy go lucky VLANs etc. However, failing that, the Draytek Vigor 2820 series might be of interest as that has pretty much everything all minus the 8 ports. On Friday 13 May 2011 16:17:19 Imran Chaudhry wrote: 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 internet failover Thanks! -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] NIS Client Curiosities
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 name service requests. The default configuration file, /etc/nscd.conf, determines the behavior of the cache daemon. See nscd.conf(5). Nscd provides cacheing for accesses of the passwd(5), group(5), and hosts(5) databases through standard libc interfaces, such as getpwnam(3), getpwuid(3), getgrnam(3), getgrgid(3), gethostbyname(3), and others. Hopefully this will help anyone else who is stuck with this problem. Tim B. -- OpenPilot - Open-source Marine Chart Plotter openDynamics - Open-source Vessel Motions Calculation Lead Developer http://openpilot.sourceforge.net http://opendynamics.engineering.selfip.org -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
