Re: Network Traffic Generation

2009-03-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Daniel Feiglin wrote: For what it's worth, they can both be pinged from the host and the ifconfig output looks fine. I am sorry. For what it's worth is exactly nothing. The setup you are trying to achieve is not possible as is. The problem is convincing the TCP/IP stack to route packets

Re: Getting volume keys to work in KDE

2009-03-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Meir Kriheli wrote: Better yet, place them in ~/.Xmodmap which is read upon session startup, Not on Debian, it isn't. I will put in a reference to it in the doc, however. Thanks for the feedback. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com

The Slides from Erez Doron's Private Satellite Television and Linux are Online

2009-03-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! The slides from Erez Doron's Presentation about Satellite Television and Linux are now online: * http://wiki.osdc.org.il/index.php/Tel_Aviv_Meeting_on_08_March_2009 * http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/telux/advanced.html Thanks to Erez for sending them to me. Regards, Shlomi Fish --

Re: Network Traffic Generation

2009-03-14 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz writes: Do the following experiment. Connect the 100 card to a network, and from another computer ping the 101 address while a sniffer is running. You will see an ARP reply going out from the 100 card, carrying the 100 MAC address, and the ping will succeed

Re: Network Traffic Generation

2009-03-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Let me first make a disclaimer that I have not tried it myself in this configuration, but here is what *might* point you towards a solution. It may also turn out a dead end, mind you. I'm sorry, my money is on the later.

Re: Network Traffic Generation

2009-03-14 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz writes: None of those links say anything about causing a packets destined for a LOCAL ip to actually go out. This is what I meant when I wrote I hadn't tried this configuration. It is, indeed, worth a try. If you do, I am curious whether it works or not,

Re: Network Traffic Generation

2009-03-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: It is, indeed, worth a try. If you do, I am curious whether it works or not, so a summary will be appreciated. Me it'll take some time until I get to try it. If Daniel tries it, please do report. Switching is fine, as long as they are only layer 2

Re: Network Traffic Generation

2009-03-14 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz writes: Unless VM0 sends an ARP inquiring about the destination IP, This ARP is sent to a physical NIC. Actually, no. It is sent by the VM's virtual NIC (the VM does not know anything else), and the switch in the hypervisor forwards it, among other

Re: Network Traffic Generation

2009-03-14 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz writes: The behavior you are suggesting is akin to a hardware switch forwarding packets between two VLANS to save on routing. A layer 2 switch is simply not allowed to do that. I thought that the two entities in question live in the same broadcast domain

[HAIFUX Lecture] Introduction to openmp

2009-03-14 Thread Eli Billauer
This Monday, March 16th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to enjoy Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda's talk about Introduction to openmp Abstract (Orna hasn't submitted an abstract... I'll improvise) This meeting will be an introduction to OpenMP API, which is a preparation lecture for openmp - from

Re: Network Traffic Generation

2009-03-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: I thought that the two entities in question live in the same broadcast domain (subnet/vlan) by requirement (just a cable between the NICs in the original formulation). They do, but you have to be layer 3 aware to notice that. Exactly like I said - if you're layer 2,

Gotta Looove gdb

2009-03-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
Today I was debugging a development branch of Freecell Solver (I see Muli is preparing the graggers) and had to deal with a problem that the scanning dump deviated from that in the stable version. Comparing the two dumps yielded that some derived states were not followed. But I wanted to know

PAM: GDM-only login

2009-03-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi I occasionally need to setup a throw-away games user for someone to play a bit with my laptop. Having a password is an annoyance in this case. So I thought I'll use PAM to disregard the password and accept the authentication anyway: http://tzafrir.org.il/~tzafrir/add_gdmonly_user This uses

Re: PAM: GDM-only login

2009-03-14 Thread ik
In Gnome you can tell it to allow users not to place passwords, but I also found the following thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=123116 I hope it helps you. Ido On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: Hi I occasionally need to setup a

Re: Network Traffic Generation

2009-03-14 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz writes: Do the following experiment. Connect the 100 card to a network, and from another computer ping the 101 address while a sniffer is running. You will see an ARP reply going out from the 100 card, carrying the 100 MAC

Re: PAM: GDM-only login

2009-03-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:50:57AM +0200, ik wrote: In Gnome you can tell it to allow users not to place passwords, Passwordless login seems to only apply to a single user, IIRC. And then you find yourself locked in the screensaver :-( Anyway, as GDM is moving away from its simple text-based