Re: [PLUG] Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs?

2018-06-10 Thread Ben Koenig
Free Geek often has some of the older dual-band netgear routers for cheap. Do some research on the model number, since most of them are very compatible with openwrt. Once you flash the router with openwrt, you can enable the features that stock firmware doesn't provide. Several years ago I bought

Re: [PLUG] How do I talk to it

2018-06-10 Thread Chuck Hast
Yes that is what g: is aimed at. But for some reason the program does not see it. On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:20 PM, Larry Brigman wrote: > More likely to sdb. > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 9:01 PM Chuck Hast wrote: > > > On closer inspection I see that both of these are removed when the device >

Re: [PLUG] How do I talk to it

2018-06-10 Thread Larry Brigman
More likely to sdb. On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 9:01 PM Chuck Hast wrote: > On closer inspection I see that both of these are removed when the device > is > disconnected: > Jun 9 23:18:50 kp4djt-t420 kernel: [ 1136.185219] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached > scsi generic sg2 type 0 > Jun 9 23:18:50

Re: [PLUG] How do I talk to it

2018-06-10 Thread Chuck Hast
Well, I looked at the listed dosdevices turns out g: is linked to sdb. BUT it complains that it cannot find the correct device driver. The program in question has no info on what it is aimed at. FYI it is the programming tool for a radio ConnectSystems CS800D. I wonder if it is a permissions

Re: [PLUG] How do I talk to it

2018-06-10 Thread Chuck Hast
Chee, I missed that one... Well now to give it a try, but I am getting too sleepy, so better wait until tomorrow. On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 9:08 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > dmesg says /dev/sdb > > df or mount will only show it if it has been mounted. > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 6:20 PM, Chuck

Re: [PLUG] Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs?

2018-06-10 Thread Russell Senior
It used to be a real problem on public networks, because the bit torrent clients were pretty aggressive about congesting upstream links. There's a name for the phenomenon: buffer bloat: basically, filling too-large queues at a bandwidth choke point resulting in ugly latencies. For a number of

Re: [PLUG] Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs?

2018-06-10 Thread wes
Not one someone else's network, they don't :) -wes On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Groman wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jun 2018 23:10:04 -0700 > Russell Senior wrote: > > > Our Personal Telco firmware (based on OpenWrt/LEDE) has a dumb > > bittorrent blocker, and we include iftop and tcpdump as

Re: [PLUG] How do I talk to it

2018-06-10 Thread Russell Senior
dmesg says /dev/sdb df or mount will only show it if it has been mounted. On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 6:20 PM, Chuck Hast wrote: > That was the second option after looking in /dev. I figured it would show > up in > one of those places but no joy. > Here is what I see from the df command > >

Re: [PLUG] How do I talk to it

2018-06-10 Thread Chuck Hast
That was the second option after looking in /dev. I figured it would show up in one of those places but no joy. Here is what I see from the df command Pre-USB connection: kp4djt@kp4djt-t420:/dev$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on udev 3952548 0

Re: [PLUG] How do I talk to it

2018-06-10 Thread Ken Stephens
The it will be a drive letter in dosdevices. Do a df and see where it is mounted. In a Fedora Distribution, it should be mounted in /run/media//. Link that to a drive letter in dosdevices. Ken On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:18 AM Chuck Hast wrote: > Ken, > The first thing I did was look in /dev

Re: [PLUG] How do I talk to it

2018-06-10 Thread Chuck Hast
Ken, The first thing I did was look in /dev to see if it was there but no joy. I see the device appear on my desktop as a ST MicroSD Flash, but I cannot find where to setup a link to the thing. On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Ken Stephens wrote: > Chuck, > > You need to add a link to it in

Re: [PLUG] Explanation for message log entry

2018-06-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 10 Jun 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: KLOGD_OPTIONS="-c 3 -x -m 0" with the just added '-m 0'. Well, syslog (on my 14.2 installation) does not accept the -m option when I restart it. Interesting. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Explanation for message log entry

2018-06-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 10 Jun 2018, Bob Vinisky wrote: I believe the option has changed since I last did this. In /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog, near the top of the settings, isn option SYSLOGD_OPTIONS=“-c “. By adding the syslog switch “-m 0” it should go away (e.g. SYSLOGD_OPTIONS=“-c -m 0“). See man syslog. Bob,

Re: [PLUG] Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs?

2018-06-10 Thread Thomas Groman
On Sat, 9 Jun 2018 23:10:04 -0700 Russell Senior wrote: > Our Personal Telco firmware (based on OpenWrt/LEDE) has a dumb > bittorrent blocker, and we include iftop and tcpdump as management > tools. If you know someone is doing something they shouldn't be, it > isn't very difficult to figure

Re: [PLUG] Explanation for message log entry

2018-06-10 Thread Bob Vinisky
Hi Rich, > On Jun 10, 2018, at 8:04 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > When I view /var/log/messages I see an entry every half-hour when I'm > logged into the system: > > Jun 10 05:47:56 salmo -- MARK -- > Jun 10 06:07:56 salmo -- MARK -- > Jun 10 06:27:56 salmo -- MARK -- > Jun 10 06:47:56 salmo --

Re: [PLUG] Explanation for message log entry [DONE]

2018-06-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 10 Jun 2018, Paul Heinlein wrote: In /etc/rsyslog.conf, you'll see an entry something like this: $ModLoad immark Just comment it out if your want the MARK entries to go away. It's otherwise just a way to verify that your syslog log system is working even when there isn't anything to

Re: [PLUG] Explanation for message log entry

2018-06-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Sun, 10 Jun 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: When I view /var/log/messages I see an entry every half-hour when I'm logged into the system: Jun 10 05:47:56 salmo -- MARK -- Jun 10 06:07:56 salmo -- MARK -- Jun 10 06:27:56 salmo -- MARK -- Jun 10 06:47:56 salmo -- MARK -- Jun 10 07:07:56 salmo --

[PLUG] Explanation for message log entry

2018-06-10 Thread Rich Shepard
When I view /var/log/messages I see an entry every half-hour when I'm logged into the system: Jun 10 05:47:56 salmo -- MARK -- Jun 10 06:07:56 salmo -- MARK -- Jun 10 06:27:56 salmo -- MARK -- Jun 10 06:47:56 salmo -- MARK -- Jun 10 07:07:56 salmo -- MARK -- Jun 10 07:27:56 salmo -- MARK --

Re: [PLUG] Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs?

2018-06-10 Thread Russell Senior
Our Personal Telco firmware (based on OpenWrt/LEDE) has a dumb bittorrent blocker, and we include iftop and tcpdump as management tools. If you know someone is doing something they shouldn't be, it isn't very difficult to figure out which client is responsible, and then you can black-hole them