PPTP possible bug found

2001-02-02 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
o negotiate "192.168.0.10" as IP address with the remote server, it sends NAK and PPPD dies. I don't know whether this is related or not. 192.168.0.10 is the other (internal LAN) interface on my Linux box. So, this is clearly a step forward, but more work

ADSL WORKING! (on Linux Orckit ATUR3)

2001-02-02 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
, function pptp_gre_copy(), change "pptp_gre_call_id = call_id" to "pptp_gre_call_id = peer_call_id" 3. Compile and enjoy! Best regards, Haim Gelfenbeyn. ==-- HAGEL TECHNOLOGIES Haim Gelfenbeyn, C

RE: ADSL WORKING! (on Linux Orckit ATUR3)

2001-02-03 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
with Bezeq on Sunday anyway, so I can try to tell them that (I need to cancel my modem replacement :-)) Haim Gelfenbeyn. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message bo

RE: IP masquerading and ADSL

2001-02-04 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
, and the only iptables rule you need to make it work is: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp+ -j MASQUERADE Haim Gelfenbeyn. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body,

RE: IP masquerading and ADSL

2001-02-04 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
At least on my Windows 2000 MTU of 1536 was used after connection was opened using the Bezeq dialer... Did you compute the MTU yourself or used some reference? If I understand well, you need to substract from 1500 the size of all headers added by PPTP, corect? Thanks, Haim. -Original

ADSL automatic re-dialing

2001-02-04 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
my computer from the outside. If anybody already solved this problem, please share you solution. I know that mine is not perfect... Thanks, Haim Gelfenbeyn. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubs

ADSL automatic re-dialing

2001-02-04 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
enough to down ppp0 and killall pptp. You also need to "rm -f /var/run/pptp/10.0.0.138" or pptp will complain and won't start next time you try to connect. Haim Gelfenbeyn. Haim, Why does your connection die in the first place? Mine never does. Maybe your ISP limits your idle time? t

RE: ADSL automatic re-dialing

2001-02-04 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
the ppp session terminates. This script will kill the old pptp and start a new one .. On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Haim Gelfenbeyn wrote: Well, my connection died only once, and I don't think Barak uses any kind of idle time limiting (after all, ADSL is all-time-up connection!). But: we have Frame

RE: ADSL automatic re-dialing

2001-02-05 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
enough to down ppp0 and killall pptp. You also need to "rm -f /var/run/pptp/10.0.0.138" or pptp will complain and won't start next time you try to connect. Haim Gelfenbeyn. Haim, Why does your connection die in the first place? Mine never does. Maybe your ISP limits your idle time? t

RE: Checking for bad sectors in a ReiserFS partition

2001-02-18 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Shlomo, If the noises you here are "click-click-click" ones, it's possible that there's mismatch between the actual disk geometry and the way Linux sees it. Make sure you configured the disk properly in the BIOS and that the values fdisk reports are correct ones for your disk. Also, the exact

RE: power outage - ADSL

2001-02-20 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
This is apparently a known problem. You need to do the following: rm -f /var/run/pptp/10.0.0.138 after "killall pptp", or the call manager won't reconnect. I finally checked out my scripts, which re-connect to adsl automagically (numerous disconnects and power outages today), so I'll post link

Automatic ADSL connection scripts available

2001-02-20 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
on shutdown, re-connection if link is dropped, and logging of all such events via syslog facility. This is just a first version, it works ok for me, but that's all. So please be patient if it doesn't :-) Best regards, Haim Gelfenbeyn

RE: A tool for Perl And C++

2001-02-24 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
--Original Message- From: Oded Arbel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 6:11 PM To: Haim Gelfenbeyn Cc: Linux-IL Mailing list Subject: RE: A tool for Perl And C++ This is very sad, IMO. That means that they're charging $1000 for a Win32 non-port of the

Versions of Kylix

2001-02-24 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
In addition to my other e-mail about Kylix, I'd like to add this information from Borland web site. (http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,26771,00.html) --- QUOTE FROM BORLAND WEB SITE --- THREE KYLIKES. (YES, THAT'S HOW YOU PLURALIZE IT.) Kylix will be delivered in three initial

FW: root shell changed.

2001-02-25 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Oops... For some reason I sent my reply to Maxim only, and not to the list. There's no need to reboot to fix such a trivial problem. su has "--shell=SHELL" option, at least on my Linux box. run su --shell=/bin/sh and then edit the password file as you wish. Haim. -Original Message-

RE: where to buy to a suse dist

2001-02-25 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
I know that Ligad (importers of ASUS and CompaQ to Israel) have Suse. You can order a computer pre-installed with Suse Linux, partitioned to your taste and your choice of packages, etc. You receive the box with all the documentation of course. They probably can sell you just the software,

RE: FW: root shell changed.

2001-02-26 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
using here slackware-current with shadow-19990607 - no such option.. On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Haim Gelfenbeyn wrote: Oops... For some reason I sent my reply to Maxim only, and not to the list. There's no need to reboot to fix such a trivial problem. su has "--shell=SHELL" option, at l

Strange server inaccessible problem

2001-02-28 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
it? 3. My Linux box is headless (Intel server with BIOS support for serial console, it doesn't have keyboard or display adapter). How can I send SysReq or Alt-Control-Del via serial link? Is it at all possible? Best regards, Haim

RE: ADSL problem

2001-04-12 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Well, I've seen similar problems actually. This is why I created my ADSL auto-reconnect script. What I saw is that sometimes the connection wasn't established, and I need to re-connect several times until it was up properly. I don't think this is pppd problem, what I saw is that pppd times out

RE: ADSL problem

2001-04-12 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
If you plan to use ADSL all the time, comment out "idle" parameter in /etc/ppp/options file. Alex Rier | ICQ: 96993521 CEO| Tel:+972-52-442549 Breakthrough Ltd. | FAX:+972-3-5364060 http://www.sysadmin.co.il |

RE: iglu on slashdot

2001-05-14 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
The attitude of ISPs (and especially Israeli ISPs) drives me absolutely nuts. (maybe because I was burned by it in the past). I won't mention any names here, because they are not important. The story was: 1. I had my site hosted on some ISP. That ISP had in its service agreement clause that

RE: iglu on slashdot

2001-05-14 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Haim Gelfenbeyn wrote: So I think this is Actcom's job to ensure that their network, routers and servers are up to their job, and monitor it 24x7 for possible problems. Anything less is incompetence on their side. Hi, I think you are mistaken, and I think

RE: 2 years? can't be linux (was: Re: web server)

2001-05-16 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
The sad fact is that Israeli ISPs do not know how to collocate equipment properly. The only world class collo in Israel is Med-1s facility at Tirat Ha Karmel, it's a atomic proof bunker as I heard, some 4000-5000 square meters, some gigantic UPSs, generators, etc etc. The equipment

RE: Israeli spammers (Was: goldfish spamming)

2001-05-16 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Hello, For me, this issue is a little more personal. I'm customer of FixFax (was before they started their spamming), and because of their spam want to move to different service, similar to theirs. FixFax's service is ok, but I'm really enraged by their spamming (received several spam e-mails

RE: VMWare networking

2001-05-21 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
As far as I remember, no need to enable ip forwarding (since packes are not forwarded on IP level, they are bridged on lower ethernet level). However, in VMWare you have an option to have host-only or bridged networking. You must select bridged, or your virtual linux box will talk to your W2K

RE: ISP

2001-05-23 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Several people have already mentioned ISPs liking or not liking masquarading. What does that mean? They have no way of finding out (and should not be interested) on whether you're connecting one machine to the Internet, two machines in your home (using one machine as the gateway doing

RE: [OT] ISPs and kid scanning your computer

2001-05-24 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
I truly hope Barak will have enough common sense to leave their setup as-is. Because the only solution to the problem you describe here is a firewall. E.g. Barak will simply filter all incoming connections on specific ports. *I* want to retain my freedom to decide what ports are open and what

RE: IGLU box (was: iglu ftp)

2001-05-26 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
I've seen very similar problems happen on my boxes when run with latest kernels (2.4.3 and 2.4.4). I hope you don't use them, but in case you do, then these problems are probably not hardware-related. I think on at least one box I have it happened because kernel was recompiled with wrong

RE: dot bin files

2001-05-26 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Afaik you should execute it - it's a self-extracting archive with rpm inside. Haim. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ishai Parasol Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 10:56 PM To: Linux - IL Maling List Subject: dot bin files Hi I

RE: taking down adsl connection

2001-06-02 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Personally I feel against reboot as troubleshooting tool for two reasons: 1. Sometimes system that is still useable won't boot at all if you try to reboot it: like root filesystem corruption that kills some of the files needed during the boot process, etc. People who used to the fact that

RE: Intresting Strange Address - Not Linux Q

2001-06-05 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
As you know IP address in just 32-bit number. Many browsers (including NS and IE4+ as far as I know) support both the regilar number.dot.number... form and specifying IP as-is (e.g. as 32-bit decimal number). To convert from 32-bit numeric form to the regular one simply convert the number to hex

RE: ADSL problems with 10/100 NICs

2001-06-07 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Hello, I'm certainly NOT a network expert but I'm working right now on network with mixed 100 and 10 mbps stations, connected with a switch and I don't see any problem in such setup. IMHO any decent switch should be able to handle speed differences. At home I had a similar problem which turned

RE: DNS issue

2001-06-14 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Miki, I'm not exaclty sure about your case, but here is what I did, and it works: Declare small TTL not for the entire zone, but only for the dynamic PPP interface name. Below is part of my own file, with some entries replaced with xxx and xxx2 for privacy. Note that 30 secs. TTL is declared

Serial Console Question

2001-06-15 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Hello, I (once again) is having problem with serial console: When I go into single-user mode, sh# prompt appears, but it apparently does not receive any input (keyboard appears as being stuck). However, lilo works in serial console, and when in muli-user, I have agetty running on it and can log

Hardware problem

2001-06-15 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Hello, I'm having what I suspect is hardware problem: Symptoms: random crashes, make clean ; make dep ; make bzImage never completes from start to end without at least one crash (gcc reports segfault). Question is, how can I make sure this is indeed hardware problem, and how can I find out what

RE: Bezeq ADSL setup

2001-06-13 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Just wondering, does anyone know how to return to the root command tree? If you type 'ip' for example, IIRC you will get a prompt something like 10.0.0.138 ip Doing a @atm, for example, will change you to the atm process, but I can't figure out how to get back to root. Closing

Hardware problem

2001-06-17 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Hello, I'm having what I suspect is hardware problem: Symptoms: random crashes, make clean ; make dep ; make bzImage never completes from start to end without at least one crash (gcc reports segfault). Question is, how can I make sure this is indeed hardware problem, and how can I find out what

RE: Hardware problem

2001-06-17 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Make sure you have an appropriate ver. of gcc. Look at the README file of the kernel sources for the appropriate ver. I used gcc 2.96-81 from RedHat 7.1, which is said to be safe by RH and by SGI, in their howto on XFS. Compiled with kgcc now, will see if it makes things better. The

RE: NMI?

2001-06-17 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Source of NMI greatly depends on your hardware brand, since NMI is wired differently on many motherboards. In my Intel server box, for example, NMI can be caused by internal intstrumentation, or diagnostics (like when some fan RPM drops below certain level, or temperature raises). It also has

RE: question regarding sendmail

2001-06-18 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Hello, Actually, I've tried to solve this exact problem for some time without much success... The issue with pop3-before-smtp is that most popular Windows e-mail clients first send mail, and only after that poll new mail (I mean Outlook and Eudora). Only Outlook 2002 supports pop3-before-smpt.

Serial Console problems with 2.4.3+ [FIX]

2001-06-18 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
; tty.c_cc[VINTR] = 3; /* ctrl('c') */ tty.c_cc[VQUIT] = 28; /* ctrl('\\') */ Hope it helped somebody, Haim Gelfenbeyn. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe

RE: compiling kde2 with gcc 3.0

2001-06-20 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
anyone follows redhat in-house development and knows what's up with 2.96 nowdays? is kgcc still shipped with redhat7.1? -- Kgcc is still shipped with redhat 7.1, but it's not installed by default. It lives in gcc-compat package, which is used mainly to compile binaried compatible with rh

RE: My ADSL saga - Updates

2001-07-05 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
, but there are too many parameters there, and I cannot see any apparent results by changing them. I'm using 2.4.5 kernel. Haim Gelfenbeyn. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dani Arbel Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 3:14 PM To: Hetz Ben Hamo Cc

RE: My ADSL saga - Updates

2001-07-05 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
= 800 kbps : half of what I can easily get. I defenitely see place for improvement. Haim. On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Haim Gelfenbeyn wrote: Hello, As far as I understand, changing MTU on a router should not prevent clients with higher MTU working. I mean that if some router receives packet

RE: My ADSL saga - Updates

2001-07-05 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
so ry to double the window size Umm... Maybe I'm not expressing myself clear. But my question was how do I do exactly that. If I knew, I wouldn't ask. Haim. On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Haim Gelfenbeyn wrote: Haim, The default window on linux is 64k. should be enough and over

RE: VM problem: hdd thrash + hang

2001-07-05 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
I don't think this is VM problem... Look more like misbehaved program running as root which allocates more and more memory .VM starts killing processes when some resource gets scarse (I don't remember if it's CPU time or virtual memory). Maybe you should look at sysstat, it will log CPU and

RE: Need recommendations on ADSL providers.

2001-11-20 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
If you were to set up a long download, or use it for web hosting, etc, you would find that over the period of a day, your DOWNLOAD throughput would average out to 256kbps. This is pretty good as people on this list have said they get closer to 64k. I had long talks with Actcom

RE: Alcatel ADSL modem, Linux and Bezeq ADSL

2001-11-20 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
: are Alcatel ADSL modems used by Bezeq vulnerable to this exploit, and if they are, is there any patch or updated firmware which can be applied to fix it? I'm using Alcatel modem myself now, but was unable to find any relevant data on the net. Greetings, Haim Gelfenbeyn. Geoff -- Geoffrey S

RE: Open a table directly in MySql

2001-11-22 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
some of my thought about performance. Is it really important ? Well in out little country I don't think so, lets imagine a site that get 5,000,000 ( big site in any meaning - a good site for my opinion get 100,000 hits per month) 5,000,000 hits are equals to 2 queries per second

RE: newer ups howto

2001-12-01 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
I'd like to share some personal experience with UPS on Linux. At work we purchased Advice UPS as they claimed that they do support Unix and Linux... As it turned out later, their support means that we must buy very expensive replacement serial cable, and the software for Linux. The software is

RE: ADSL keep alive script or virus

2001-12-05 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
edition replaces qmail-inject and acts server-wide, with wide range of options/rules, etc. It has something similar for sendmail too. In fact, I installed it mainly because I am distracted when mail arrives, and it got to the point where 50% of my e-mail was viruses... Haim Gelfenbeyn

Strange rsync performance problem

2001-12-18 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
it? There are workarounds, of course, but I don't want to introduce the additional overhead of smb or any other additional protocol for that matter (like ssh, etc) Thanks in advance, Haim Gelfenbeyn. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Looking to buy: cat5 cable + a crimping tool + RJ45 (male) connectors?

2002-01-13 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Shaul, Har Tzion street near Central Bus Station in T.A. has a number of a small electronics shops which have everything you need, and at decent prices (comparing to computer shops). You may want to shop there before looking elsewhere. Haim. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: forwarding mails from mailbox to another address..

2002-01-21 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Mutt has command-line options similar to what you need. We even used mutt to send some files as attachments via e-mail in a cgi script. Haim. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 6:13 PM

Strange DNS or BIND Problem

2002-02-03 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
trivial. The system is RedHat 7.2, bind 9.1.3 Thanks in advance, Haim Gelfenbeyn. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL

RE: Hebrew on Mysql

2002-02-09 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Basically you can write/read Hebrew data in MySQL without any additional server configuration... The only issue is sorting. You may want to do the following: 1. Configure MySQL server to use Hebrew as default character set (either on command line or via my.ini) 2. Re-create all indexes if you

RE: mtu problems?

2002-03-04 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
1. By no means I'm MTU guru. 2. I cannot give you technical explanation why it's happening. 3. It does happen to me. Here's the story: I'm managing two ADSL connections. One at home, one at work. Both are connected to Actcom, one regular account, one business. Essentially the same setup (RedHat

Mailing list archiving software?

2002-07-28 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
wrote hebrew-aware software, and never played with encodings and such. So, if someone knows existing solution, even half-working, I'll be much oblidged to hear. Best regards, Haim Gelfenbeyn. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL