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Linux INFO-SHEET (part 1/1) (Michael K. Johnson)

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*** The `Linux INFO-SHEET' is posted automatically by the
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Linux Information Sheet
Michael K. Johnson, john...@redhat.com
v4.11, 13 January 1997

This document provides basic information about the Linux operating
system, including an explanation of Linux, a list of features, some
requirements, and some resources.

1. Introduction to Linux

Linux is a completely free reimplementation of the POSIX
specification, with SYSV and BSD extensions (which means it looks like
Unix, but does not come from the same source code base), which is
available in both source code and binary form. It is copyrighted by
Linus B. Torvalds (Linus.T...@Helsinki.FI) and other contributors,
and is freely redistributable under the terms of the GNU Public
License.

Linux is not public domain, nor is it `shareware'. It is `free'
software, commonly called freeware, and you may give copies away, but
you must also give the source with it or make it available in the same
way. If you distribute any modifications, you are legally bound to
distribute the source for those modifications. See the GNU General
Public License for details. A copy is included with the Linux source,
or you can get a copy via ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu in /pub/gnu/COPYING

Linux is still free as of version 2.0, and will continue to be.
Because of the nature of the GNU copyright which Linux is subject to,
it would be illegal for it to be made not free. Note carefully: it is
perfectly legal to charge money for distributing Linux, so long as you
also distribute the source code. This is a generalization; if you
want the fine points, read the GPL.

Linux runs on 386/486/Pentium machines with ISA, EISA, PCI and VLB
busses. MCA (IBM's proprietary bus) is not currently well-supported,
although support has been added to the current development tree,
2.1.x. If you are interested, see
<http://glycerine.itsmm.uni.edu/mca>

There is a port in progress for multiple Motorola 680x0 platforms
(currently running on some Amigas, Ataris, and VME machines), which
now works quite well. It requires a 68020 with an MMU, a 68030,
68040, or a 68060, and also requires an FPU. Networking and X now
work.

Linux runs well on DEC's Alpha CPU, currently supporting the "Jensen",
"NoName", "Cabriolet", "Universal Desktop Box" (better known as the
Multia), and many other platforms. For more information, see
<http://www.azstarnet.com/~axplinux/FAQ.html>

Linux runs well on Sun SPARCs; most sun4c and sun4m machines now run
Linux, with support for sun4u in active development. Red Hat Linux is
(as of this writing) the only Linux distribution available for SPARCs;
see <http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl-sparc/>

Linux is being actively ported to the PowerPC architecture, including
PowerMac (Nubus and PCI), Motorola, IBM, and Be machines.

Ports to other machines, including MIPS and ARM, are under way and
showing various amounts of progress. Don't hold your breath, but if
you are interested and able to contribute, you may well find other
developers who wish to work with you.

Linux is no longer considered to be in beta testing, as version 1.0
was released on March 14, 1994. There are still bugs in the system,
and new bugs will creep up and be fixed as time goes on. Because
Linux follows the ``open development model'', all new versions will be
released to the public, whether or not they are considered
``production quality''. However, in order to help people tell whether
they are getting a stable version or not, the following scheme has
been implemented: Versions 1.x.y, where x is an even number, are
stable versions, and only bug fixes will be applied as y is
incremented. So from version 1.2.2 to 1.2.3, there were only bug
fixes, and no new features. Versions 1.x.y, where x is an odd number,
are beta-quality releases for developers only, and may be unstable and
may crash, and are having new features added to them all the time.
>From time to time, as the currect development kernel stabilizes, it
will be frozen as the new ``stable'' kernel, and development will
continue on a new development version of the kernel.

The current stable version is 2.0.27 (this will continue to change as
new device drivers get added and bugs fixed), and developement has
also started on the experimental 2.1.x kernels. If 2.0.x is too new
for you, you may want to stick with 1.2.13 for the time being.
However, the latest releases of 2.0 have proved quite stable. Do note
that in order to upgrade from 1.2 to 2.0, you need to upgrade some
utilities as well; you may wish to upgrade to the latest version of
your Linux distribution in order to obtain those utilities. The Linux
kernel source code also contains a file, Documentation/Changes, which
explains these changes and more.

Most versions of Linux, beta or not, are quite stable, and you can
keep using those if they do what you need and you don't want to be on
the bleeding edge. One site had a computer running version 0.97p1
(dating from the summer of 1992) for over 136 days without an error or
crash. (It would have been longer if the backhoe operator hadn't
mistaken a main power transformer for a dumpster...) Others have
posted uptimes in excess of a year. One site still had a computer
running Linux 0.99p15s over 600 days at last report.

One thing to be aware of is that Linux is developed using an open and
distributed model, instead of a closed and centralized model like much
other software. This means that the current development version is
always public (with up to a week or two of delay) so that anybody can
use it. The result is that whenever a version with new functionality
is released, it almost always contains bugs, but it also results in a
very rapid development so that the bugs are found and corrected
quickly, often in hours, as many people work to fix them.

In contrast, the closed and centralized model means that there is only
one person or team working on the project, and they only release
software that they think is working well. Often this leads to long
intervals between releases, long waiting for bug fixes, and slower
development. Of course, the latest release of such software to the
public is often of higher quality, but the development speed is
generally much slower.

As of January 13, 1997, the current stable version of Linux is 2.0.27,
and the latest development version is 2.1.20.

2. Linux Features

7 multitasking: several programs running at once.

7 multiuser: several users on the same machine at once (and no two-
user licenses!).

7 multiplatform: runs on many different CPUs, not just Intel.

7 multiprocessor: SMP support is available on the Intel and SPARC
platforms (with work currently in progress on other platforms), and
Linux is used in several loosely-coupled MP applications, including
Beowulf systems (see <http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux-
web/beowulf/beowulf.html>) and the Fujitsu AP1000+ SPARC-based
supercomputer.

7 runs in protected mode on the 386.

7 has memory protection between processes, so that one program can't
bring the whole system down.

7 demand loads executables: Linux only reads from disk those parts of
a program that are actually used.

7 shared copy-on-write pages among executables. This means that
multiple process can use the same memory to run in. When one tries
to write to that memory, that page (4KB piece of memory) is copied
somewhere else. Copy-on-write has two benefits: increasing speed
and decreasing memory use.

7 virtual memory using paging (not swapping whole processes) to disk:
to a separate partition or a file in the filesystem, or both, with
the possibility of adding more swapping areas during runtime (yes,
they're still called swapping areas). A total of 16 of these 128
MB swapping areas can be used at once, for a theoretical total of 2
GB of useable swap space. It is simple to increase this if
necessary, by changing a few lines of source code.

7 a unified memory pool for user programs and disk cache, so that all
free memory can be used for caching, and the cache can be reduced
when running large programs.

7 dynamically linked shared libraries (DLL's), and static libraries
too, of course.

7 does core dumps for post-mortem analysis, allowing the use of a
debugger on a program not only while it is running but also after
it has crashed.

7 mostly compatible with POSIX, System V, and BSD at the source
level.

7 through an iBCS2-compliant emulation module, mostly compatible with
SCO, SVR3, and SVR4 at the binary level.

7 all source code is available, including the whole kernel and all
drivers, the development tools and all user programs; also, all of
it is freely distributable. Plenty of commercial programs are
being provided for Linux without source, but everything that has
been free, including the entire base operating system, is still
free.

7 POSIX job control.

7 pseudoterminals (pty's).

7 387-emulation in the kernel so that programs don't need to do their
own math emulation. Every computer running Linux appears to have a
math coprocessor. Of course, if your computer already contains an
FPU, it will be used instead of the emulation, and you can even
compile your own kernel with math emulation removed, for a small
memory gain.

7 support for many national or customized keyboards, and it is fairly
easy to add new ones dynamically.
7 multiple virtual consoles: several independent login sessions
through the console, you switch by pressing a hot-key combination
(not dependent on video hardware). These are dynamically
allocated; you can use up to 64.

7 Supports several common filesystems, including minix, Xenix, and
all the common system V filesystems, and has an advanced filesystem
of its own, which offers filesystems of up to 4 TB, and names up to
255 characters long.

7 transparent access to MS-DOS partitions (or OS/2 FAT partitions)
via a special filesystem: you don't need any special commands to
use the MS-DOS partition, it looks just like a normal Unix
filesystem (except for funny restrictions on filenames,
permissions, and so on). MS-DOS 6 compressed partitions do not
work at this time without a patch (dmsdosfs). VFAT (WNT, Windows
95) support is available in Linux 2.0

7 special filesystem called UMSDOS which allows Linux to be installed
on a DOS filesystem.

7 read-only HPFS-2 support for OS/2 2.1

7 HFS (Macintosh) file system support is available separately as a
module.

7 CD-ROM filesystem which reads all standard formats of CD-ROMs.

7 TCP/IP networking, including ftp, telnet, NFS, etc.

7 Appletalk server

7 Netware client and server

7 Lan Manager (SMB) client and server

7 Many networking protocols: the base protocols available in the
latest development kernels include TCP, IPv4, IPv6, AX.25, X.25,
IPX, DDP (Appletalk), NetBEUI, Netrom, and others. Stable network
protocols included in the stable kernels currently include TCP,
IPv4, IPX, DDP, and AX.25.

3. Hardware Issues

3.1. Minimal configuration

The following is probably the smallest possible configuration that
Linux will work on: 386SX/16, 1 MB RAM, 1.44 MB or 1.2 MB floppy, any
supported video card (+ keyboards, monitors, and so on of course).
This should allow you to boot and test whether it works at all on the
machine, but you won't be able to do anything useful. See
<http://rsphy1.anu.edu.au/~gpg109/mem.html> for minimal Linux
configurations

In order to do something, you will want some hard disk space as well,
5 to 10 MB should suffice for a very minimal setup (with only the most
important commands and perhaps one or two small applications
installed, like, say, a terminal program). This is still very, very
limited, and very uncomfortable, as it doesn't leave enough room to do
just about anything, unless your applications are quite limited. It's
generally not recommended for anything but testing if things work, and
of course to be able to brag about small resource requirements.

3.2. Usable configuration

If you are going to run computationally intensive programs, such as
gcc, X, and TeX, you will probably want a faster processor than a
386SX/16, but even that should suffice if you are patient.

In practice, you will want at least 4 MB of RAM if you don't use X,
and 8 MB if you do. Also, if you want to have several users at a
time, or run several large programs (compilations for example) at a
time, you may want more than 4 MB of memory. It will still work with
a smaller amount of memory (should work even with 2 MB), but it will
use virtual memory (using the hard drive as slow memory) and that will
be so slow as to be unusable. If you use many programs at once, 16 MB
will reduce swapping considerably. If you don't want to swap
appreciably under any normal load, 32 MB will probably suffice. Of
course, if you run memory-hungry applications, you may want more.

The amount of hard disk you need depends on what software you want to
install. The normal basic set of Unix utilities, shells, and
administrative programs should be comfortable in less than 10 MB, with
a bit of room to spare for user files. For a more complete system,
get Red Hat, Debian, Slackware, or another distribution, and assume
that you will need 60 to 300 MB, depending on what you choose to
install and what distribution you get. Add whatever space you want to
reserve for user files to these totals. With today's prices on hard
drives, if you are buying a new system, it makes no sense to buy a
drive that is too small. Get at least 500 MB, preferably 1GB or more,
and you will not regret it.

Add more memory, more hard disk, a faster processor and other stuff
depending on your needs, wishes and budget to go beyond the merely
usable. In general, one big difference from DOS is that with Linux,
adding memory makes a large difference, whereas with DOS, extra memory
doesn't make that much difference. This of course has something to do
with DOS's 640KB limit, which is completely nonexistent under Linux.

3.3. Supported hardware

CPU:
Anything that runs 386 protected mode programs (all models of
386's 486's, 586's, and 686's should work. 286s and below may
someday be supported on a smaller kernel called ELKS (Embeddable
Linux Kernel Subset), but don't expect the same capabilities. A
version for the 680x0 CPU (for x = 2 with external MMU, 3, 4,
and 6) which runs on Amigas and Ataris can be found at
tsx-11.mit.edu in the 680x0 directory. Many DEC Alphas are
supported. Many SPARCs are now supported. Ports are also being
done to the PowerPC, ARM, and MIPS architectures. More details
are available elsewhere.

Architecture:
ISA or EISA bus. MCA (mostly true blue PS/2's) support is
incomplete but improving (see above). Local busses (VLB and
PCI) work. Linux puts higher demands on hardware than DOS,
Windows, and in fact most operating systems. This means that
some marginal hardware that doesn't fail when running less
demanding operating system may fail when running Linux. Linux
is an excellent memory tester...

RAM:
Up to 1 GB on Intel; more on 64-bit platforms. Some people
(including Linus) have noted that adding ram without adding more
cache at the same time has slowed down their machine extremely,
so if you add memory and find your machine slower, try adding
more cache. Some machines can only cache certain amounts of
memory regardless of how much RAM is installed (64 MB is the
most one popular chipset can cache). Over 64 MB of memory will
require a boot-time parameter, as the BIOS cannot report more
than 64MB, because it is ``broken as designed.''

Data storage:
Generic AT drives (EIDE, IDE, 16 bit HD controllers with MFM or
RLL, or ESDI) are supported, as are SCSI hard disks and CD-ROMs,
with a supported SCSI adaptor. Generic XT controllers (8 bit
controllers with MFM or RLL) are also supported. Supported SCSI
adaptors: Advansys, Adaptec 1542, 1522, 1740, 27xx, and 29xx
(with some exceptions) series, Buslogic MultiMaster controllers
(Flashpoint support is in beta-testing), NCR53c810-based
controllers, DPT controllers, Qlogic ISP and FAS controllers,
Seagate ST-01 and ST-02, Future Domain TMC-88x series (or any
board based on the TMC950 chip) and TMC1660/1680, Ultrastor 14F,
24F and 34F, Western Digital wd7000, and others. SCSI, QIC-02,
and some QIC-80 tapes are also supported. Several CD-ROM devices
are also supported, including Matsushita/Panasonic, Mitsumi,
Sony, Soundblaster, Toshiba, ATAPI (EIDE), SCSI, and others.
For exact models, check the hardware compatibility HOWTO.

Video:
VGA, EGA, CGA, or Hercules (and compatibles) work in text mode.
For graphics and X, there is support for (at least) normal VGA,
some super-VGA cards (most of the cards based on ET3000, ET4000,
Paradise, and some Trident chipsets), S3, 8514/A, ATI
MACH8/32/64, and hercules. (Linux uses the Xfree86 X server, so
that determines what cards are supported. A full list of
supported chipsets alone takes over a page.)

Networking:
Ethernet support includes 3COM 503/509/579/589 (501/505/507 are
supported but not recomended), AT&T GIS (nei NCR) WaveLAN, most
WD8390-based cards, most WD80x3-based cards, NE1000/2000 and
most clones, AC3200, Apricot 82596, AT1700, ATP,
DE425/434/435/500, D-Link DE-600/620, DEPCA, DE100/101,
DE200/201/202 Turbo, DE210, DE422, Cabletron E2100 (not
recommended), Intel EtherExpress (not recommended), DEC
EtherWORKS 3, HP LAN, HP PCLAN/plus, most AMD LANCE-based cards,
NI5210, ni6510, SMC Ultra, DEC 21040 (tulip), Zenith Z-Note
ethernet, All Zircom cards and all Cabletron cards other than
the E2100 are unsupported, due to the manufacturers
unwillingness to release programming information freely.

FDDI support currently includes the DEFxx cards from DEC.

Point-to-Point networking support include PPP, SLIP, CSLIP, and
PLIP.

Serial:
Most 16450 and 16550 UART-based boards, including AST Fourport,
the Usenet Serial Card II, and others. Intelligent boards
supported include Cyclades Cyclom series (supported by the
manufacturer), Comtrol Rocketport series (supported by the
manufacturer), Stallion (most boards; supported by the
manufacturer), and Digi (some boards; not manufacturer-
supported). Some ISDN, frame relay, and leased line hardware is
supported.
Other hardware:
SoundBlaster, ProAudio Spectrum 16, Gravis Ultrasound, most
other sound cards, most (all?) flavours of bus mice (Microsoft,
Logitech, PS/2), etc.

4. An Incomplete List of Ported Programs and Other Software

Most of the common Unix tools and programs have been ported to Linux,
including almost all of the GNU stuff and many X clients from various
sources. Actually, ported is often too strong a word, since many
programs compile out of the box without modifications, or only small
modifications, because Linux tracks POSIX quite closely.
Unfortunately, there are not as many end-user applications yet as we
would like, but this is changing rapidly. Contact the vendor of your
favorite commercial Unix application and ask if they have ported it to
Linux.

Here is an incomplete list of software that is known to work under
Linux:

Basic Unix commands:
ls, tr, sed, awk and so on (you name it, Linux probably has it).

Development tools:
gcc, gdb, make, bison, flex, perl, rcs, cvs, prof.

Languages and Environments:
C, C++, Objective C, Java, Modula-3, Modula-2, Oberon, Ada95,
Pascal, Fortran, ML, scheme, Tcl/tk, Perl, Python, Common Lisp,
and many others.

Graphical environments:
X11R5 (XFree86 2.x), X11R6 (XFree86 3.x), MGR.

Editors:
GNU Emacs, XEmacs, MicroEmacs, jove, ez, epoch, elvis (GNU vi),
vim, vile, joe, pico, jed, and others.

Shells:
bash (POSIX sh-compatible), zsh (includes ksh compatiblity
mode), pdksh, tcsh, csh, rc, es, ash (mostly sh-compatible shell
used as /bin/sh by BSD), and many more.

Telecommunication:
Taylor (BNU-compatible) UUCP, SLIP, CSLIP, PPP, kermit, szrz,
minicom, pcomm, xcomm, term (runs multiple shells, redirects
network activity, and allows remote X, all over one modem line),
Seyon (popular X-windows communications program), and several
fax and voice-mail (using ZyXEL and other modems) packages are
available. Of course, remote serial logins are supported.

News and mail:
C-news, innd, trn, nn, tin, smail, elm, mh, pine, etc.

Textprocessing:
TeX, groff, doc, ez, LyX, Lout, Linuxdoc-SGML, and others.
Games:
Nethack, several Muds and X games, and lots of others. One of
those games is looking through all the games available at tsx-11
and sunsite.

Suites:
AUIS, the Andrew User Interface System. ez is part of this
suite.

All of these programs (and this isn't even a hundredth of what is
available) are freely available. Commercial software is becoming
widely available; ask the vendor of your favorite commercial software
if they support Linux.

5. Who uses Linux?

Linux is freely available, and no one is required to register their
copies with any central authority, so it is difficult to know how many
people use Linux. Several businesses are now surviving solely on
selling and supporting Linux, and very few Linux users use those
businesses, relatively speaking, and the Linux newsgroups are some of
the most heavily read on the internet, so the number is likely in the
hundreds of thousands, but hard numbers are hard to come by. However,
one brave soul, Harald T. Alvestrand, has decided to try, and asks
that if you use Linux, you send a message to linux-...@uninett.no
with one of the following subjects: ``I use Linux at home'', ``I use
Linux at work'', or ``I use Linux at home and at work''. He is also
counting votes of ``I don't use Linux'', for some reason. He posts
his counts to comp.os.linux.misc.

6. Getting Linux

6.1. Anonymous FTP

Matt Welsh has released a new version of his Installation and Getting
Started guide, version 2.1.1. Also, the Linux Documentation Project
(the LDP) has put out several other books in various states of
completion, and these are available at
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/LDP. Stay tuned to
comp.os.linux.announce. The Linux Documentation Project home page is
at <http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP>

At least the following anonymous ftp sites carry Linux.

Textual name Numeric address Linux directory
============================= =============== ===============
tsx-11.mit.edu 18.172.1.2 /pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu 152.2.22.81 /pub/Linux
ftp.funet.fi 128.214.248.6 /pub/OS/Linux
net.tamu.edu 128.194.177.1 /pub/linux
ftp.mcc.ac.uk 130.88.203.12 /pub/linux
src.doc.ic.ac.uk 146.169.2.1 /packages/linux
fgb1.fgb.mw.tu-muenchen.de 129.187.200.1 /pub/linux
ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de 131.159.0.110 /pub/comp/os/linux
ftp.dfv.rwth-aachen.de 137.226.4.111 /pub/linux
ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de 137.226.225.3 /pub/Linux
ftp.Germany.EU.net 192.76.144.75 /pub/os/Linux
ftp.ibp.fr 132.227.60.2 /pub/linux
ftp.uu.net 137.39.1.9 /systems/unix/linux
wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 mirrors/linux
ftp.win.tue.nl 131.155.70.100 /pub/linux
ftp.stack.urc.tue.nl 131.155.2.71 /pub/linux
srawgw.sra.co.jp 133.137.4.3 /pub/os/linux
cair.kaist.ac.kr /pub/Linux
ftp.denet.dk 129.142.6.74 /pub/OS/linux
NCTUCCCA.edu.tw 140.111.1.10 /Operating-Systems/Linux
nic.switch.ch 130.59.1.40 /mirror/linux
cnuce_arch.cnr.it 131.114.1.10 /pub/Linux
ftp.monash.edu.au 130.194.11.8 /pub/linux
ftp.dstc.edu.au 130.102.181.31 /pub/linux
ftp.sydutech.usyd.edu.au 129.78.192.2 /pub/linux

tsx-11.mit.edu and fgb1.fgb.mw.tu-muenchen.de are the official sites
for Linux' GCC. Some sites mirror other sites. Please use the site
closest (network-wise) to you whenever possible.

At least sunsite.unc.edu and ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de offer
ftpmail services. Mail ftp...@sunsite.unc.edu or f...@informatik.tu-
muenchen.de for help.

If you are lost, try looking at
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/distributions/, where several distributions
are offered. Red Hat Linux, Debian, and Slackware appear to be the
most popular distributions at the moment.

6.2. CDROM

Most people now install Linux from CDROM's. The distributions have
grown to hundreds of MBs of Linux software, and downloading that over
even a 28.8 modem takes a long time.

There are essentially two ways to purchase a Linux distribution on
CDROM: as part of an archive of FTP sites, or directly from the
manufacturer. If you purchase an archive, you will almost always get
several different distributions to choose from, but usually support is
not included. When you purchase a distribution directly from the
vendor, you usually only get one distribution, but you usually get
some form of support, usually installation support.

6.3. Other methods of obtaining Linux

There are many BBS's that have Linux files. A list of them is
occasionally posted to comp.os.linux.announce. Ask friends and user
groups, or order one of the commmercial distributions. A list of
these is contained in the Linux distribution HOWTO, available as
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/distribution-HOWTO, and posted
regularily to the comp.os.linux.announce newsgroup.

7. Getting started

As mentioned at the beginning, Linux is not centrally administered.
Because of this, there is no ``official'' release that one could point
at, and say ``That's Linux.'' Instead, there are various
``distributions,'' which are more or less complete collections of
software configured and packaged so that they can be used to install a
Linux system.

The first thing you should do is to get and read the list of
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) from one of the FTP sites, or by
using the normal Usenet FAQ archives (e.g. rtfm.mit.edu). This
document has plenty of instructions on what to do to get started, what
files you need, and how to solve most of the common problems (during
installation or otherwise).

8. Legal Status of Linux

Although Linux is supplied with the complete source code, it is
copyrighted software, not public domain. However, it is available for
free under the GNU General Public License, sometimes referred to as
the ``copyleft''. See the GPL for more information. The programs
that run under Linux each have their own copyright, although many of
them use the GPL as well. X uses the MIT X copyright, and some
utilities are under the BSD copyright. In any case, all of the
software on the FTP site is freely distributable (or else it shouldn't
be there).

9. News About Linux

A monthly magazine, called Linux Journal, was launched over two years
ago. It includes articles intended for almost all skill levels, and
is intended to be helpful to all Linux users. One-year subscriptions
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Linux-Networking Digest #334, Volume #6 Wed, 6 Aug 97 01:44:35 EDT

Contents:
Re: pppd problem (ip-up) (Michael Beauregard)
Re: MASQ Checksum Error (Dave Platt)
Re: Perl on Linux net access to Oracle...? (Steven Whatley)
hardware vs software (John Nelson)
xwindows and network... (T. & E. Warfield)
Problem with telnet (Ta-Cheng Lin)
Linux PPP server (Dave Peckham)
Where can I find Video Conference Software for Linux? (MaLin)
Exporting ROOT on Linux. (ra...@distinct.com)
Reg. PPP on redhat linux 4.0 (Gulti)
httpd setup is killing me! (Erik Williamson)
Re: Someone to tell me how to recognize calling terminal (James Youngman)
Two WD8013s on system (Glen Eustace)
Cable modem (1-way) using Linux setups (Ed Daiga)
IPX Collision Messages (Lee Lanthier)

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From: Michael Beauregard <_beaurega_@_nortel.com_>
Subject: Re: pppd problem (ip-up)
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 10:08:32 -0600
Reply-To: _beaurega_@_nortel.com_

tafe...@nospamplease.alpin.or.at wrote:
|
| Michael Beauregard <_beaurega_@_nortel.com_> writes:
|
| > I have successfully gotten pppd to run and connect to another peer.
| > However, the problem I experience is that I don't know how to get pppd
| > to run the ip-up script when IP is running on the connection. So far, I
| > have created a script: /etc/ppp/ip-up. The script is never executed.
|
| Did you tell pppd that there is such a script ?
|
| --Stefan

How is that done?

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From: dpl...@tvsoft.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Re: MASQ Checksum Error
Date: 5 Aug 1997 21:17:54 GMT

In article <33E73E6C...@enainc.com>,
Paul Bennett <pa...@enainc.com> wrote:

|I am recieving the following errors from the kernel loggging service:
|
|Aug 5 09:32:47 chief kernel: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from <ipaddr>

|Where <ipaddr> are address that have been connected to via this machie
|
|I have masqurading turned on, and it is working.

I've noticed similar things happening here.

One can expect an occasional masquerade checksum error, I think, due
to actual data transmission errors (e.g. noise on a modem PPP link).

However, I've seen bursts of these errors which don't seem to fall
into that category. They seem to be occurring at the time that a TCP
connection is in the process of being torn down (CLOSING or FIN
state). I often see several such errors logged within a period of a
few seconds.

My suspicion, at this point, is that there may be some "broken" TCP/IP
stacks out there, which don't always checksum packets properly during
the final stages of a conversation (or, perhaps, don't checksum RST
packets transmitted after a machine crash and reboot).

I haven't found a good solution for this problem. It seems to me to
be excessively dangerous to permit the masquerade/readdressing code to
pass through packets with bad checksums - there's a real risk of
sending the packet to the wrong machine or port, and causing adverse
effects that way.

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From: Steven Whatley <swha...@blkbox.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.lang.perl.modules
Subject: Re: Perl on Linux net access to Oracle...?
Date: 5 Aug 1997 22:15:49 GMT

In comp.databases.oracle.misc Darrell Berry <darr...@hhcl.com> wrote:
: Our Oracle 7 servers run on Solaris 2.5+ and NT...I want to connect to
: them using Perl 5 on a Linux Slackware 3 machine...

: Looking thru the CPAN database driver and interface modules, it seems
: these will only work if there's a prekxisting Oracle install on the client
: machine (with SQL*Net etc already installed)...given that there's no
: Oracle release for Linux ;-) is there any way to do what I want to do?

I've heard that the SCO UNIX version of SQL*Net may work under linux if you
have the SCO libraries installed. Never tried to do this so I don't know the
details. Hope this helps.

Later,
Steven
http://www.blkbox.com/~swhatley/
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Steven Whatley | --|-- | the life. No one comes to the
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Houston, Texas | -- Jesus Christ (John 14:6 NIV)
|

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From: John Nelson <meta...@enteract.com>
Subject: hardware vs software
Date: 5 Aug 1997 22:24:59 GMT

I am setting up a small Ethernet network of 30-50 machines
at my business and had planned on using LINUX http, mail,
and name servers. I have available several 386 machines
that I considered using for name, ftp, and mail servers and
reserving one 486 or 586 for a http server. Would it be
better to have a seperate server for mail, names, ftp,
and http or should I put all my eggs in one fast basket and
have one machine serve all of these processes. What are the
reliability and speed tradeoffs? Any help appreciated.

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: kry...@zoomnet.net (T. & E. Warfield)
Subject: xwindows and network...
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 16:38:56

I was wanting to know if it was any great undertaking to have a network with x
windows running on each terminal in the network. I also wanted to find out if
there was a way to set it so that every time that someone logged into the xdm
that they'd automatically start with netscape {linux version of course} up
on the screen.

any replies would be appreciated,
you can email me at
haf...@dilbert.shawnee.edu

todd

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From: tc...@birch.ee.vt.edu (Ta-Cheng Lin)
Subject: Problem with telnet
Date: 5 Aug 1997 17:47:23 GMT

Hello All:

I use SLIP to make connections .
/sbin/ifconfig shows

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:2000 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

sl0 Link encap:Serial Line IP
inet addr:129.37.118.174 P-t-P:204.146.249.241 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1006 Metric:1
RX packets:1124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:1504 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

I suppose the SLIP connection is OK, But ......
If I use ping, telnet, or ftp, such as

tclin:~$ telnet yew.ee.vt.edu

My box just hags there. It doesn't even show
Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.... things like that

netscape is the same, it hangs. What is the possible probelm with that?

I tried another cmputer to dial up the same host and everything
is fine. The problem is my box. I experienced a power outrage last week
while my box was on. Is that a possible cause? I run Linux 1.2.13.

Thanks

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From: Dave Peckham <dpec...@austinite.com>
Subject: Linux PPP server
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 19:37:20 -0500

Hi,

I have successfully connected to the server and established the PPP
link. But I can only
communicate with the PPP server, and only by IP address (since I can't
talk to a name server).
My config is exactly like the PPP-HowTo and I have compiled with IP
Forwarding (though I would like
to test that--know how?). DNS is also properly set up for both the
client and server.

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
client.foo.com * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 1
ppp0
localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 22
eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 10
lo
default gateway.foo.com 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 37
eth0

where client is the PPP client, and gateway is a gateway on the LAN that
the server is connected to.

Here is /etc/ppp/options:
asyncmap 0
netmask 255.255.255.0
proxyarp
lock
crtscts
modem

Any ideas????

Thanks,

Dave

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From: lin...@hotmail.com (MaLin)
Subject: Where can I find Video Conference Software for Linux?
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 18:20:00 GMT
Reply-To: lin...@hotmail.com

Hi, Anybody,

Would you please help me to advice a video conference software for
Linux?

Regards

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Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 18:53:15 -0600
From: ra...@distinct.com
Subject: Exporting ROOT on Linux.
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.nfs,de.comp.os.linux.networking

Hi,

Hi everyone,

I have an Old PC running Linux 1.2.13 and I recently got an New PC
on which I downloaded and installed NFS for 95 by Distinct Corporation.
I also have an old Solaris Box ( 2.5.1 ) and till recently I was
happily exporting "/" for Linux and mounting it on Solaris and
a fun time was had by everybody.

Then came this Windoze and everytime it tried to mount / it failed
( ESTALE was the error ) but even the Solaris stopped working saying that
there was a problem. Mount and NFS had to be restarted to make things
working again.

Known Bug? Distinct NFS 95 Goofing up ? It sure looks like Linux having
problems parsing '/' as a mount request. Any clues ?

Thanks in advance

Raj

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From: Gulti <kon...@uakron.edu>
Subject: Reg. PPP on redhat linux 4.0
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 22:16:46 -0400

Hi Guys,
I have been trying to establish a PPP connection using netcfg from
redhat 4.0, from my linux box for the past 4 days but something is going
wrong. I have Redhat 4.0 kernel 2.0.18 on my linux box.
Whatz happening is that once I dial in and get connected to my ISP, I
get some garbage (which is expected) but my connect script is not able
to ignore this garbage. So, I tried to send some garbage (from the
expect and send scripts in the netcfg) but in vain.
The log is as shown:
Aug 5 20:46:15 (none) ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/cua0 at
38400
Aug 5 20:46:15 (none) kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the
University of California
Aug 5 20:46:15 (none) kernel: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel
allocation)
Aug 5 20:46:15 (none) kernel: PPP Dynamic channel allocation code
copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Aug 5 20:46:15 (none) kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
Aug 5 20:46:15 (none) kernel: registered device ppp0
Aug 5 20:46:15 (none) pppd[1094]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Aug 5 20:46:16 (none) chat[1101]: abort on (BUSY)
Aug 5 20:46:17 (none) chat[1101]: abort on (ERROR)
Aug 5 20:46:17 (none) chat[1101]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Aug 5 20:46:17 (none) chat[1101]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Aug 5 20:46:17 (none) chat[1101]: abort on (Invalid Login)
Aug 5 20:46:17 (none) chat[1101]: abort on (Login incorrect)
Aug 5 20:46:17 (none) chat[1101]: send (AT^M)
Aug 5 20:46:17 (none) chat[1101]: expect (OK)
Aug 5 20:46:17 (none) chat[1101]: AT^M^M
Aug 5 20:46:17 (none) chat[1101]: OK -- got it
Aug 5 20:46:17 (none) chat[1101]: send (ATDT*70,9727000^M)
Aug 5 20:46:17 (none) chat[1101]: expect (CONNECT)
Aug 5 20:46:17 (none) chat[1101]: ^M
Aug 5 20:46:35 (none) chat[1101]: ATDT*70,9727000^M^M
Aug 5 20:46:35 (none) chat[1101]: CONNECT -- got it
Aug 5 20:46:35 (none) chat[1101]: send (^M)
Aug 5 20:46:35 (none) chat[1101]: expect (woolala)
Aug 5 20:46:35 (none) chat[1101]: 14400/ARQ/V32/LAPM/V42BIS^M
Aug 5 20:46:37 (none) chat[1101]: ^M
Aug 5 20:46:37 (none) chat[1101]: ^M
Aug 5 20:46:37 (none) chat[1101]: User Access Verification^M
Aug 5 20:46:37 (none) chat[1101]: ^M
Aug 5 20:46:37 (none) chat[1101]: Username: ^M
Aug 5 20:47:07 (none) chat[1101]: Username: ^M
Aug 5 20:47:07 (none) chat[1101]: % Username: timeout expired!^M
Aug 5 20:47:20 (none) pppd[1094]: Connect script failed
Aug 5 20:47:20 (none) pppd[1094]: Exit.
Aug 5 20:47:20 (none) chat[1101]: Username:
Aug 5 20:47:20 (none) chat[1101]: alarm
Aug 5 20:47:20 (none) chat[1101]: Failed

And while using netcfg do we have to do any specific changes to
/etc/ppp/options?
Because we seem to specify all the options in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ ifup-ppp file. I also specified -pap and
-chap 'coz my ISP doesn't use PAP or CHAP. Am I missing anything out
here?
I would really appreciate it if someone can bail me out.
Thanks in advance,
Partha Sriramasamudram

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Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 11:16:28 -0600
From: Erik Williamson <er...@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Subject: httpd setup is killing me!

Please oh please oh please help me!

I've installed NCSA's httpd... yet when I run it in standalone mode
(httpd &) it starts and here's the message I get:
httpd: can't resolve symbol 'recvmsg'
over and over, and the load shoots through the roof. I can't find any
documentation on the error and I wouldn't exacly consider myself an 'expert'
in linux (yet - it's coming!).

Cheers,
Erik Williamson.

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From: James Youngman <JYou...@vggas.com>
Subject: Re: Someone to tell me how to recognize calling terminal
Date: 28 Jul 1997 12:12:54 +0100

lor...@argon.roma2.infn.it (Lorenzo M. Catucci) writes:

| The subject is clear (I hope): I'd like to know how do I do to ask the
| connected terminal to send me its own identifier, to setup the term
| variable in a sensible way during login.

Run /bin/tty. Better yet, download "qterm", which does the whole
thing automatically.

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From: Glen Eustace <G.Eu...@massey.ac.nz>
Subject: Two WD8013s on system
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 14:09:35 +1300

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This is probably an RTFM but we have R'ed all the FMs we can find and
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From: Ed Daiga <e...@iname.com>
Subject: Cable modem (1-way) using Linux setups
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 22:52:12 -0400

Hello,

I am in the process of installing a cable modem internet system, and I
would like to make it work with linux & my ethernet card so that I can
make a little LAN out of this. As I understand it, most "normal" cable
modem setups are already ethernet based and would be pretty easy to set
up, but this is going to be "one-way" (using a modem for the upload
portion) until they get the full broadband equipment functional next
year.

The info on the system is that it will be using a General Instruments
Surfboard cable modem card, and I also have a NE2000 ethernet card in
the system. The cable company tells me that the surfboard modem has
software for Win95 only, but I would like to know if anyone has set this
system up under linux. Does anyone have any suggestions or experience
in setting one of these up?

Thanks,
Ed Daiga
e...@iname.com

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From: Lee Lanthier <new...@Linux.OS>
Subject: IPX Collision Messages
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 19:21:53 -0700

I've set up Redhat 4.0 a few times now. Mostly for the experience. Each
time I've had good success. I selected 'everything' when asked which
packages to install. I have Web, ftp, telnet and local sendmail working
just fine. HOWEVER...I get the following messages on the console that
appear every few seconds or so...

IPX: Network number collision a0000001
eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2

I've looked thru all the docs I can think of as well as over 1000 news
messages in this group and others. I'm not concerned about IPX use, but
I can't figure out how to disable IPX. Even if I did want IPX, I don't
really care about these collisions. That's the nature of IPX...collision
sensing. I'd be happy to just be able to turn off whatever it is that
is sending this message to my console. I can't work when interrupted
by these persistance announcements. Of course, I'd prefer to correct
the problem properly, but I'll settle for a quick fix, for now.

Any ideas or pointers would really be appreciated, muchly! Thanx.

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Contents:
Re: ppp connected but cant communicate (Soruk of Vulcan)
Re: Perl on Linux net access to Oracle...? (Bob Eisner)
Re: RPC for Linux (Todd Graham Lewis)
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Re: Ethernet Hardware Addresses (Sid Boyce)
Re: rc.local question (Mefus Mellifluous)
Re: PPP->NT Connection Question ("Charles Haynes")
Re: Finger problem (Peter Tobias)
NSF Server problem (Ralph Downton)
Re: Opinions Wanted: Which OS? (Todd Graham Lewis)
I can't ping from one machine to another ("W.E. Hargrove")
Re: Disconnect from foreign machine!!! (George Schroeder)

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From: Soruk of Vulcan <so...@Eridani.Demon.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: ppp connected but cant communicate
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 16:12:46 +0100

On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Tom wrote:

| Greetings:
|
| I am trying to do a ppp connection from my linux box through a Shiva
| LanRover to a solaris system.

[Snip]

| the only weird thing I see during the connect is the following:
| Aug 2 10:12:51 localhost pppd[672]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
| ->Aug 2 10:12:53 localhost pppd[672]: Unknown protocol (0x8029)
| received

[Snip]

| Please help me, Im just a stupid programmer who doesnt know what to
| do next.

Have you got PPP support compiled into the kernel?

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From: Bob Eisner <bo...@trifox.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.lang.perl.modules
Subject: Re: Perl on Linux net access to Oracle...?

Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 11:02:02 -0700
Reply-To: bo...@trifox.com

Darrell Berry wrote:
|
| Our Oracle 7 servers run on Solaris 2.5+ and NT...I want to connect to
| them using Perl 5 on a Linux Slackware 3 machine...
|
| Looking thru the CPAN database driver and interface modules, it seems
| these will only work if there's a prekxisting Oracle install on the client
| machine (with SQL*Net etc already installed)...given that there's no
| Oracle release for Linux ;-) is there any way to do what I want to do?
|

| thanks!

Hi Darrel,

You may want to check out VORTEXperl from Trifox.

VORTEXperl talks to multiple RDBMS and supports Oracle on
multiple platforms. It uses Perl Sockets so there is no need
to re-build the Perl runtime. With VORTEXperl you can access
an Oracle 7 Server running on Solaris 2.5 from a Perl program
running on Linux.

You can obtain an evaluation copy of VORTEXperl from our WEB site
at http://www.trifox.com/

Hope this Helps

Bob Eisner
408 369-2392

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From: Todd Graham Lewis <tle...@mindspring.net>
Subject: Re: RPC for Linux
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 15:12:29 -0400

On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Steve Buchanan wrote:

| I am looking for a way to compile and run RPC code on my Linux boxes.
| Does anyone know where I can get my hands on a relatively stable version
| of RPC for Linux? Does such a beast even exist?

Every Linux distribution comes with a complete implementation of ONC (or
Sun) RPC. E.g., on my debian box:

macduff# man -k rpc
rpcgen (1) - an RPC protocol compiler
rpc.portmap (8) - DARPA port to RPC program number mapper
portmap (8) - DARPA port to RPC program number mapper
rpcinfo (8) - report RPC information

Is this what you're looking for?

--
Todd Graham Lewis Manager of Web Engineering MindSpring Enterprises
(800) 719-4664, x2804 Linux! tle...@mindspring.net

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
From: Sid Boyce <sz...@amdahl.com>
Subject: Re: Ethernet Hardware Addresses
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 18:35:53 GMT

Keith Burdis wrote:
|
| Zack Williams (z...@u.arizona.edu) wrote:
| : How do I find the hardware address of my Ethernet Card?
| : Is it written on the card? Hidden somewhere in the /proc fs?
|
| You should be able to see your hardware address in all the blurb that
| scrolls past when you boot up linux. Once you have booted, you can type :
|
| dmesg
|
| to see it again. Here's what my networking stuff looks like :
|
| wd.c: Presently autoprobing (not recommended) for a single card.
| loading device 'eth0'...
| wd.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (bec...@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
| eth0: WD80x3 at 0x280, 00 00 C0 D6 FA 5A WD8013, IRQ 3, shared memory at 0xd0
| 0-0xd3fff.
|
| The 00 00 C0 D6 FA 5A is your hardware address. Yours should be somewhere
| around "loading device 'eth0'..." too.
|
| Hope this helps.
|
| : Zack Williams
| : z...@u.arizona.edu
|
| - Keith
| --
| Keith Burdis - BSc Honours (Com Sci) - Rhodes University
| Email : ke...@rucus.ru.ac.za
| WWW : http://www.rucus.ru.ac.za/~keith/
| IRC : Panthras JAPH
|
| Standard disclaimer.
| ---
The following also works.......
[root@g3vbv Xelen]# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 48:54:E8:21:15:56
inet addr:0.0.0.0 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:0.0.0.0
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x6400
Regards
--
... Sid Boyce...Amdahl(UK)...44-121 422 0375
-----------------------------------
Any opinions expressed above are mine and do not necessarily represent
the opinions or policies of Amdahl Corporation.

------------------------------

From: cabney...@spam.cyberpass.net (Mefus Mellifluous)
Subject: Re: rc.local question
Date: 3 Aug 1997 18:37:36 GMT

How do you start the script in rc.local? "man bash" will give you information
about how different command invocations will affect the flow of control of
rc.local, and your script. In particular, look at ".", "eval", and "exec",
and simple command invocation.

That's as specific as I can be without seeing your script files.

In article <33E33D...@tamu.edu>,
"Orlan Franks, III" <moo...@tamu.edu> writes:
| I have a program which does some logging, but only when I execute it
| explicitly from the command line. I now want it to run every time the
| computer boots (100% of the time). Since it runs continuously,
| including it in the rc.local file never lets rc.local complete. Thus, I
| cannot get to a login prompt. What switches or other options will allow
| me to execute the program, to run in the background, without hindering
| my ability to login?
|
| Thanx,
| Orlan Franks

--
-Chuck
Eliminate the spam to reply!
cabney_at_cyberpass_net

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From: "Charles Haynes" <war...@yks0.attnet.or.jp>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: PPP->NT Connection Question
Date: 22 Jul 1997 06:00:24 GMT

I am having the exact same problem but I found out today that my ISP uses
win95 to establish the ppp connection vice NT. If anyone has gotten a
win95/NT connection to work, please post. Thanks a bunch

Brent

------------------------------

From: Peter Tobias <tob...@et-inf.fho-emden.de>
Subject: Re: Finger problem
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 20:09:20 +0200

Evan G. Wolenzik <wole...@radish.interlink-bbs.com> wrote:

| For some reason, everytime I finger someone on my site it says
| "Never logged in". Strangely enough, it _does_ display their
| current (and correct) mail situation. My guess is that this is
| a directory or file permissions problem.

| Does anyone know enough about "finger" to help me on this?

You have to make sure that the file /var/log/lastlog does exist (finger
uses this file to get the information about the last login). Your system
might use a different filename for it (just use "strings /usr/bin/finger"
to get the exact path of the lastlog file).

If you're using shadow passwords you might want to check the /etc/login.defs
file. You can switch the lastlog support on and off there:

#
# Enable logging and display of /var/log/lastlog login time info.
#
LASTLOG_ENAB yes

Thanks,

Peter

--
Peter Tobias <tob...@et-inf.fho-emden.de> <tob...@debian.org> <tob...@linux.de>
PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C

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From: Ralph Downton <dow...@btinternet.com>
Subject: NSF Server problem
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 20:15:06 +0000

I'm using two machines connected by a TCP/IP LAN, both running RedHat
4.1.

I can ping, telnet, ftp, rlogin from one to the other and get plausible
looking results from ifconfig, but I can't export a filesystem from
either of them.

When I try to mount the (remote) filesystem I get (in either case) the
message ...

mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered

I've run out of things to try and am getting nowhere!!!

Anybody got any ideas please??

Thanks, Ralph Downton

------------------------------

From: Todd Graham Lewis <tle...@mindspring.net>
Subject: Re: Opinions Wanted: Which OS?
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 15:22:39 -0400

On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Tom Elsesser wrote:

| 1. Keep the SCO unix and Foxbase, get it fixed...cost: $20K
| 2. Buy a manufacturing software package(to replace Foxbase software),
| get 4 windows desktops, and a server w/Win NT or Novell. cost : $20K
| 3. Keep SCO Unix, buy manufacturing software package,4 Win95
| desktops, get software for SCO to network Win95. ... cost : $20K
| 4. Buy a manufacturing package, 4 win95 desktops, server w/Linux or
| FreeBSD ... cost : $18K

One small addition I'd make is that you can get 8- or 16-port serial
boards for SCO or Linux which would allow you to continue to use your dump
terminals. Alternatively, you can buy some 386's (very, very cheap), run
ethernet, and put Linux on them. This would give you _lots_ of
flexibility in building your new setup. (You could make it Tk- or
curses-based, you could even use kerberos to encrypt network traffic,
you could use java, etc.)

If you were to specify your requirements and publicize them, you could
probably find some CS student to write you a complete solution at a very
reasonable rate. Maintenance is no problem; simply GPL the code and give
it away, and it will, in all probability, maintain itself. Ain't Linux
grand?

| As you can see, everything is fairly comparable, but a new
| manufacturing package would compliment our business nicely.

I have spoken in the past with a number of small business people in
similar situations to yourself who lament the lack of free software of
this kind. If you have some time, it'd be great if you could write up a
description of what you're presently using and what features such a
package would need to have. Give it to the Linux Documentation Project,
and even if someone doesn't do it right away, someone will probably do it
eventually.

| The SCO runs beautifully right now, no problems in 7 years. While not a
| unix guru, I have maintained the system for 4 years, adding users &
| printers; easy stuff like that.

If you can keep a SCO system running beautifully for 4 years, then you're
no slouch.

--
Todd Graham Lewis Manager of Web Engineering MindSpring Enterprises
(800) 719-4664, x2804 Linux! tle...@mindspring.net

------------------------------

From: "W.E. Hargrove" <wil...@caterpillar.demon.co.uk>
Subject: I can't ping from one machine to another
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 21:11:34 GMT

Hi there...

I wonder if anyone can help me here?

I have 2 machines, caterpillar and pixel. caterpillar is connected to the
internet, via demon (using a static ip address), and using slip. This
works fine. I also have an ethernet card in the machine, which is
recognised at boot time, to which I wish to connect other machines,
namely 'pixel', ie. like a typical ip_masq situation, (an internal
ethernet LAN, with one machine having an officially assigned ip number).
The problem is that I just can get the 'pixel' machine to sucessfully ping
'caterpillar'.. never mind about machines in the wider world, getting no
route to host messages. In both machines, the nic is found, and ip_masq is
complied into the 'caterpillar' kernel. I am right in assuming that
ip_masq does not need to be complied into the kernel in the other
machines?

Both machines are running the slackware flavour of linux. caterpillar is
running ver. 3.1 with kernel 2.0.13, and pixel, ver. 3.2, with kernel
2.0.29.

Obvisouly, there is a routing problem, but I just can't figure out what it
is. I have attached the relevant files from both machines, and would
appreciate any help that can be offered.

Starting with the config on caterpillar:

/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1

# Attach the loopback device.
/sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
/sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0

#/sbin/ifconfig dummy caterpillar.demon.co.uk
#/sbin/route add -host caterpillar.demon.co.uk

# IF YOU HAVE AN ETHERNET CONNECTION, use these lines below to configure the
# eth0 interface. If you're only using loopback or SLIP, don't include the
# rest of the lines in this file.

# Edit for your setup.
IPADDR="192.168.1.1" # REPLACE with YOUR IP address!
NETMASK="255.255.255.0" # REPLACE with YOUR netmask!
NETWORK="192.168.1.0" # REPLACE with YOUR network address!
BROADCAST="192.168.1.255" # REPLACE with YOUR broadcast address, if you
# have one. If not, leave blank and edit below.
#GATEWAY="192.168.1.1" # REPLACE with YOUR gateway address!

# Uncomment the line below to initialize the ethernet device.
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} broadcast ${BROADCAST} netmask ${NETMASK}

# Uncomment these to set up your IP routing table.
/sbin/route add -net ${NETWORK} netmask ${NETMASK}
#/sbin/route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1

# End of rc.inet1

..and the route command

Kernel routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window Use Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 1 lo

/etc/hosts..looks like this

127.0.0.1 localhost
194.222.133.32 caterpillar.demon.co.uk caterpillar

# Start of local ethernet
# ip address below allocated to localmachine.localarea.net
192.168.1.1 localmachine.localarea.net localmachine

# ip address below allocated to pixel.localarea.net
192.168.1.2 pixel.localarea.net pixel

# ip address below allocated to raytrace.localarea.net
192.168.1.3 raytrace.localarea.net raytrace

And the config on pixel:

#! /bin/sh
#
# rc.inet1 This shell script boots up the base INET system.
#
# Version: @(#)/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 1.01 05/27/93
#

HOSTNAME=`cat /etc/HOSTNAME`

# Attach the loopback device.
/sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
/sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo

# IF YOU HAVE AN ETHERNET CONNECTION, use these lines below to configure the
# eth0 interface. If you're only using loopback or SLIP, don't include the
# rest of the lines in this file.

# Edit for your setup.
IPADDR="192.168.1.2" # REPLACE with YOUR IP address!
NETMASK="255.255.255.0" # REPLACE with YOUR netmask!
NETWORK="192.168.1.0" # REPLACE with YOUR network address!
BROADCAST="192.168.1.255" # REPLACE with YOUR broadcast address, if you
# have one. If not, leave blank and edit below.
GATEWAY="192.168.1.1" # REPLACE with YOUR gateway address!

# Uncomment the line below to configure your ethernet card.
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} broadcast ${BROADCAST} netmask ${NETMASK}

# Uncomment these to set up your IP routing table.
/sbin/route add -net ${NETWORK} netmask ${NETMASK} eth0
if [ ! "$GATEWAY" = "" ]; then
/sbin/route add default gw ${GATEWAY} netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1
fi

# End of rc.inet1.

executing route on pixel reveiled:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface

192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 2 eth0
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 3 lo
default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0

If I 'ping 192.168.1.1', it eventually fails, and gives the responce :No
route to host.

At the mo. I am not too worried about getting ip_masq to work, since I
can't even ping the host that I am going to use. Can anyone help me here?

I apologise in advance, if I have made some silly error, but I just can
see what is wrong here. I am begining to think that something could be up
with the nic's themselves.

Both machines have access control totally disabled, with empty hosts.allow
and hosts.deny files. I'm not too sure what needs to go in the
/etc/networks files on the machines. I thought that since I have used
route -net, these files were unnecessary.

Thanks in advance. Any suggestions are very welcome.

Will.

------------------------------

From: gsch...@muir.eng.uop.edu (George Schroeder)
Subject: Re: Disconnect from foreign machine!!!
Date: 3 Aug 1997 21:55:56 GMT

On 3 Aug 1997 11:45:37 GMT, Terrance K W Lai <kw...@sclpinet.clp.com.hk> wrote:
:Dear Linux guru,
: I have Redhat 4.0 with kernel upgraded to 2.0.30. I found that whenever
:I telnet to other machines and do a 'cat <a several 10k file>'. The
:connection will cease and the message "Disconnect from foreign machine"
:prints. This happens whatever the machine I telneted to. My machine is
:a 486DX33 with network card 3COM 3c509. Another machine Pentinum 75 with
:network card 3c590 running Redhat 4.0 with kernel 2.0.18 without the
:problem.
: Would anyone give me a clue so that I can fix it?
:
: Thanks in advance
: Best rgds,
: Terrance

I had this same problem until I upgraded to telnet 0.10 from the one in
NetKit 0.09; now no problem.

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Subject: Linux-Networking Digest #324

Linux-Networking Digest #324, Volume #6 Mon, 4 Aug 97 04:13:33 EDT

Contents:
Re: Opinions Wanted: Which OS? (Linas Vepstas)
Re: 3Com 3c589 troubles - Help! ("Bruno Prior")
Re: 3C900 Netword card problems (Marc Jourdeuil)
Re: Puzzle, How to dump a drive through parallel port to another computer? (David Rose)
Re: inn 1.4 on 2.0.30 - nnrp or nntp busted? (rod)
Socksified ip stack? ("Durell D. Willoughby")
Re: Linux vs. W95 ppp (rod)
DE500-AA Ethercard Trouble (Zack Williams)
PPP server and bridging (KIRBY C. BOHLING)
Re: 3c509b combo nic not recognized ("John JJZ")
Finicky telnet (L Sandel)
Multiple 3c509 cards ("Elizabeth Arnold")
Re: Apache & Proxy (Cache) (Pek Meng Lee)
Re: 3c509b combo nic not recognized (Gregor Overney)
WORTH LOOKING AT........... (Dispatch)
networking 2 puters (sch...@dhc.net)

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From: Linas Vepstas <li...@fc.net.just.say.no.to.spam>
Subject: Re: Opinions Wanted: Which OS?

Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 16:59:07 -0500

Be sure to check out
http://www.abw.com/

They sell manufacturing, accounting and distribution apps. Although
thier web pages are not very clear on this, at least some of these run
on Linux.

--linas

P.S. please let me know your experience/results, good or bad. I have
never dealt directly with these folks, want to know how it goes.

| In article <33E0BDBD...@gatecom.com>, Tom Elsesser
| <tels...@gatecom.com> writes
| >Hi,
| > I run a small (20 person) manufacturing shop. Currently, we have 5
| >Wyse60 terminals connected to a SCO unix 3.2 4.2 box.
--
Linas Vepstas -- li...@fc.net.no.spam.please -- http://linas.org/

------------------------------

From: "Bruno Prior" <br...@prior.ftech.co.uk>
Subject: Re: 3Com 3c589 troubles - Help!
Date: 3 Aug 1997 23:53:39 GMT

Bruno Prior <br...@prior.ftech.co.uk> wrote in article
<01bc9ef7$f69fa6a0$0201...@prior.ftech.co.uk>...
| I am trying to network my computers. I have a 3Com 3c589 PCMCIA card for
my
| laptop (Olivetti Echos Pro 133S, 32 Mb RAM, 2Gb hard disk). I have
| downloaded the driver and README. The README says to apply an appended
| patch to the kernel source. I have taken this section of the README
| (beginning with the line "---config.in~" etc.) and stuck it in a file
| called patch.3c589 in the /usr/src directory. I have tried to patch the
| kernel source with this file using "patch -p0 <patch.3c589" (while in the
| /usr/src directory), but it's not working. I get a message "Hmm... Looks
| like a unified diff to me... The text leading up to this was:..." etc.
and
| then it asks which "File to patch:". The text leading up to the first
| section refers to config.in, so I've tried giving it that file
| (linux/arch/i386/config.in), but the patch fails. I get a similar message
| twice more. The next one refers to drivers/net/Space.c, and it
succesfully
| patches that file, but the last one refers to drivers/net/Makefile, and
| patching that file fails as well. I am running Red Hat 4.1, kernel
version
| 2.0.27. What am I doing wrong?
|
| Also, the README says to edit the 3c589.c driver to remove the hardwired
| BNC port selection. I think I've found the line in question, but what
| should I put instead of "BNC"? Just a "*", or nothing at all?

OK, so I've figured out that I was trying to patch the wrong file, and that
the one I wanted was drivers/net/Config.in (I was confused because "find"
only turned up the config.in files under arch/, because all other Config.in
files are spelt with an upper-case C). However, the patch still doesn't
work when I give it the correct file, nor does it work for
drivers/net/Makefile.

I don't know much about patching, but looking at these files and the patch
file, it looks like the problem is that the patch file is for older
versions of Config.in and Makefile. Am I right in guessing that the patch
file gives a few existing lines from the file to be patched, either side of
the lines to be inserted (which are preceded by a +)? In both cases, the
lines following the lines to be inserted do not match those in the files,
due to recently added options (it looks like this driver and patch were
written in 1994, so this is hardly surprising). Based on this assumption, I
tried manually inserting the new lines into these files (removing the +, of
course). Can I do this? It looks like I can for the Config.in file, at
least, because "make config" now gives me a 3c589 option. However, when I
try to compile the kernel, it stalls on the 3c589, throwing up a series of
warnings:

"In function `tc589_open': implicit declaration of function `snarf_region'
unsigned int format, long unsigned in arg (arg3) assignment from
incompatible pointer type".

"In function `el3_open': passing arg 2 of `request_irq' from incompatible
pointer type, too few arguments to function `request_irq'"

"In function `el3_close': too few arguments to function `free_irq'".

I haven't got a clue what this means, but I guess either I can't get away
with patching the files the way I did, or the 3c589.c driver is as
incompatible with my version (2.0.27) of linux as was the patch file.
Please forgive me if I'm way off track (I am a networking newbie), but if
my guesswork is correct then I suppose I either need a newer version of the
3c589 driver, or an older version of linux.

I am using the 3c589.c-1.1.54 driver (renamed to 3c589.c) as the original
3c589.c driver threw up even more errors. I downloaded them both from
cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov:/pub/linux/pcmcia/ (as suggested by the Ethernet
HOWTO). Does anyone know if there is a more recent version of this driver?
Or failing that, what version of Linux would be compatible with the driver
I have (I have 1.3.45, would that do?)? Or, perhaps more likely, am I
talking complete bollocks? If so, where am I going wrong?

I would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction,
as I have received no response to my original posting.

Cheers,

Bruno Prior br...@prior.ftech.co.uk

------------------------------

From: Marc Jourdeuil <ma...@nortel.ca>
Subject: Re: 3C900 Netword card problems
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 19:38:37 -0400

Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
|
| On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Marc Jourdeuil wrote:
|
| > Linux is unable to select the port on my network card the network is
| > connected to (AUI 10BASE5). It tries 10BASET, then 2, then stops.
| (...)
| > I have seen something that may help:
| (...)
| > Solution: The 3c503 AUI port can be selected at boot-time with 0.99pl12
| > and later. The selection is overloaded onto the low bit of the
| > currently- unused dev->rmem_start variable, so a boot-time parameter of:
| >
| > LILO: linux ether=0,0,0,1,eth0
| (...)
| > With kernels 1.3.42 and newer, you can specify the AUI port when loading
| > as a module as well. Just append xcvr=1 to the insmod command line along
| > with your i/o and irq values.
| >
| > If anyone has a solution, it would be much appreciated.
|
| Dude, you answered your own question here. What's the problem? Does
| adding the above-cited parameter to {lilo,loadlin,insmod} not work? Have
| you tried?

|
| --
| Todd Graham Lewis Manager of Web Engineering MindSpring Enterprises
| (800) 719-4664, x2804 Linux! tle...@mindspring.net

I tried this: boot: linux rw root=/dev/hda3 ramdisk=0
ether=11,0xD800,0,1,eth0
which gave the same error.
However, I added this line to /etc/conf.modules, which did the trick:
options 3c59x options=1

Marc

------------------------------

From: da...@oberon.sub.net.au (David Rose)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.dev.admin
Subject: Re: Puzzle, How to dump a drive through parallel port to another computer?
Date: 4 Aug 1997 09:14:33 +1000

Urs Thuermann <u...@isnogud.escape.de> writes:

|Jason Uhlenkott <jaso...@usa.net> writes:

|> I'm not sure if this will work or not, because the hard drive devices
|> are block devices instead of regular files. But it's worth a try.

|It will work that way.

|This won't work, however. You have to read /dev/hda-whatever on that
|machine the disk is installed in. Otherwise the destination machine
|sees the special block device's major/minor number and tries to talk
|to a driver in it's own kernel.

There is a thing call plip, like PPP but over the parallel port instead of
a serial port. Once you've got that working you've got FTP, NFS, etc.

|urs

regards,

dave.

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From: ser...@net47.ont.com (rod)
Subject: Re: inn 1.4 on 2.0.30 - nnrp or nntp busted?
Date: 4 Aug 1997 00:53:55 GMT
Reply-To: dav...@davids.psyberlink.net

Lionel R Clark, bis...@pinky-and-the-brain.com journeyed into
another dimension with:
> No matter how I slice it, I'm getting the same response:
>
>
>> Warning -- server did not reply to quit, Broken pipe
>>
>
> I'm thinking that there is different behaviour with 1.4 under 2.0,
>and that 1.4 may be broken.. then again, it's a binary installation of
>1.4.

There are a semi-infinite number of reasons to be using inn-1.5.1
rather than 1.4. You'll spend more time to get an old version
working than you will building the newest from scratch.

drs
--
Would you put the worlds best wooden
wagon wheels on your car? Then why
buy 56k anti-technology?

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From: "Durell D. Willoughby" <dur...@oklahoma.net>
Subject: Socksified ip stack?
Date: 4 Aug 1997 00:42:20 GMT

Where can I find a socksified ip stack for Linux?

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From: ser...@net47.ont.com (rod)
Subject: Re: Linux vs. W95 ppp
Date: 4 Aug 1997 01:05:24 GMT
Reply-To: ro...@davids.isource.net

Bob Hauck, bo...@wasatch.com
>In article <33DE9B...@telstra.com.au>,
> Brian Miller <bmi...@telstra.com.au> writes:
>
>> Under Win95 i am getting about 0.2 - 0.3 Kbps *faster* downloads than
>> under Linux.

>apps (say two ftp programs) because you don't know whether the are timing
>things the same way. Do they count startup time or not, for example.
>Better to download the same large file from your ISP (not some distant
>site) under both OS's and time with a stopwatch.

Exactly. You can never tell how the software reports averages
(or optimistic peaks as averages). Also, the point made about
"same large file" can't be overemphasized. A 1 MB .ZIP and a
1 MB .gz file do not contain the same amount of data, so doing
a zip file on windows and comparing it to a .gz on unix will
not be a comparison.
ds

------------------------------

From: Zack Williams <z...@u.arizona.edu>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: DE500-AA Ethercard Trouble
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 17:04:36 -0700
Reply-To: z...@u.arizona.edu

I am having trouble getting my DE500-AA card to work. I use Redhat 4.2 /
Linux 2.0.30. It is a Genuine DEC card, and I read in the Ethernet HOWTO
that it cannot automatically set its media type. I would like to set it
to 10BaseT. When I boot, alternating messages appear from eth0 saying
that it is using 10BaseT or 100BaseTX.

tulip.c:v0.10 8/11/95 bec...@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
+0.72 4/17/96 http://www.dsl.tutics.tut.ac.jp/~linux/tulip
+0.02 12/15/96 mja...@feral.com (2.0.27)
eth0: DE500 (DEC 21140 Tulip) at 0x8000, 00:00:f8:02:65:21, IRQ 10
eth0: enabling 10TP port.
eth0: enabling 100TX port.
eth0: enabling 10TP port.
eth0: enabling 100TX port.

I currently have the card connected to another computer (A Mac clone,
with onboard 10BaseT) via a crossover ethernet cable, in order to
transfer some files.

I recompiled the kernel with both the tulip and de4x5 drivers compiled
as modules. Seeing that I am having a horrid time with the tulip driver,
should I switch to the de4x5 driver? Also how do I do that, if the tulip
driver is being loaded automatically by the kernel?

aTdHvAaNnKcSe

Zack Williams
z...@u.arizona.edu

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From: kboh...@s-cwis.unomaha.edu (KIRBY C. BOHLING)
Subject: PPP server and bridging
Date: 3 Aug 1997 20:45:26 -0500

Hey I am totally new to the newsgroup world, but I have noticed a weird
thing in linux. I have a lan that is connected to the internet, and
I have a router and another small lan connected through a machine
running Linux with a bridging enabled on it. After this i tried to setup
dialup PPP on the same machine, read up on all the FAQ's all the howto's
used www.dejanews.com to search the old news groups scoured books read
man pages. So then I setup dialup ppp on linux, standard getty on a modem
thing, and the getty works okay. Then I move to the ppp user part set that
up. I dialup with win95 and the connection shows up. I ping from win95
the ip i gave it works okay, I ping the ips on the linux box one shows up the
other doesnt I thought this was very weird, so I tried ping from the linux
box, no luck. But i did notice that my hub showed transmissions. So this time
i counted the lights on the hup and the number of missed ping packets were
exactly the same. So i turned off bridging using brcfg -dis. And while still
connect to the linux box the win95 connection started to kick in. Turn
bridging back on, while dialup ppp is connected continues to work. The only
time it doesnt work is when bridging is enabled before I dialup, any
answers??? I thought it might be that bridging in promiscous mode is weird,
maybe I should play with ifconfig'ing ppp0 to enable promiscous mode,
but that seemed like a waste of bandwidth for a 28.8 modem line.

Please send any replies to
kboh...@s-cwis.unomaha.edu
Thanks in advance
Kirby C. Bohling

------------------------------

Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
From: "John JJZ" <zub...@aecl.ca>
Subject: Re: 3c509b combo nic not recognized
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 00:34:37 GMT

Shut the PNP on the 509 card. Those kernels DO NOT support PNP devices

John

Bing Bang <bi...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
<33DF4D...@ix.netcom.com>...
| I'm using a 486 DX4/100Mhz ISA & VESA
|
| I've tried kernels 2.0.29 and 2.0.30
|
| The kernel acts as if there was no network card in the machine.
|
| I've varified that the address and IRQ are good,
| and it passes the self test that comes with the install disk.
|
| The PNP is enabled.
|
| Anyone got any ideas?
|

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From: L Sandel <34N...@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu>
Subject: Finicky telnet
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 21:48:01 EDT

Recently, I set up a Linux box on an ethernet, and this new machine seems to
be rather finicky in who it accepts telnet connections from (unlike the last
machine I set up on this very same network). Anyways, the machine will not
allow anybody to telnet into it from a Windows 95 machine, and one Macintosh.
It WILL allow connections from most all Macintosh computers, and any other
UNIX machines. It is not a /etc/hosts.deny problem, nor anything to do with
DNS lookups (none of the machines, affected or no, have DNS entries).

If anybody could offer ideas, it would be most helpful.
Thanks,
Luke

------------------------------

From: "Elizabeth Arnold" <ear...@applied.net>
Subject: Multiple 3c509 cards
Date: 4 Aug 1997 04:35:18 GMT

I must be stupid. I have tried everything I can think of over the
past several days, to no avail. I am attempting to put two
3c509b NICs in a linux box (RHS 4.2/2.0.30). Either card in
the machine by itself is detected correctly, but if I put them
both in the machine, it only finds one. I have tried adding an
append statement to /etc/lilo.conf (append="ether=0,0,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1")
and rerunning /sbin/lilo, which makes no difference.

Can *anyone* help me before I go nuts?

Seriously, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.
Bill Arnold

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From: Pek Meng Lee <sup...@le-net.com.au>
Subject: Re: Apache & Proxy (Cache)
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 01:13:31 GMT

Christopher Lenzberger wrote:
|
| Why won't my apache not cache documents when I enable caching? The
| defined directory is always empty! - CHL

I had this problem before. Did U actually create the
proxy cache directory as referenced in the configuration file?
U have to create it yourself.

Regards
lee pek meng

------------------------------

From: Gregor Overney <ove...@worldnet.att.net>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: 3c509b combo nic not recognized
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 22:42:11 -0700

Do you have a Sound Blaster board SB16 or AWE32 installed? If yes, your
509 won't be probed by Linux correctly (I suspect the on board IDE to be
the bad part of the SB16, but I am not sure yet). If you have no
soundboard from
Creative Labs in your box, 509b supports PnP but Linux does not.

Greg

Bing Bang wrote:

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From: sch...@dhc.net
Subject: networking 2 puters
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 18:47:22 GMT

Hello!

I have a quick question. I have two computers; one running Linux
(RedHat), one running Win95. I am trying to get these two connected
to each other, so that I can dial-up to my provider with Linux and be
able to access this through the Win95 computer as well. Kind of a
modem sharing thing, I guess. I have a working connection with a
serial cable, being able to bring up HyperTerminal or DOS-Kermit on
the Win95 puter and connecting the serial ports with the cable and
getting a working login prompt. I can get access through the Linux
puter's modem on the Win95 machine, however, it is *excruciatingly*
slow! As long as my connection isn't up, the connection between the
two is great...moves along with virtually no delay. As soon as I
start the modem up, though, it slows to less than a crawl. I have a
parallel cable as well, but have not tried to set that up yet. Will a
parallel cable work better? If so, how do I need to go about setting
up the same kind of connection I had with the serial cable, just
faster with this parallel cable? Or are there any other
good/semi-easy ways to do this? I'm not even sure how to go about the
parallel thing. Each computer only has one parallel port...those
being the printer ports.

Thanks!
Brian

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Linux-Networking Digest #316, Volume #6 Sat, 2 Aug 97 07:13:25 EDT

Contents:
help:Soundblaster 16pnp vs NIC card (Tod Glenn)
Re: DEC etherworks turbo type DE202 (Jay Leafey)
Re: does masquerading work w/ 2.0.30? (Gregory Weeks)
Re: IP masquerade and PING (Lars Hofhansl)
Kingston KNE30BT supported? (Paul Taylor)
Re: Token Ring adapters - info needed (Paul P. Norton)
Re: Opinions Wanted: Which OS? (Christopher B. Browne)
Modules net-pf-4/5 - What are they? ("Bruno Prior")
Re: IP masquerade and PING
Problems connecting to NT-RAS ("Carlos Miragall")
alarm on modem init (Steve Weiland)
Re: Problems with rexecd ("William R. Mattil")
Re: Linux Networking and IP Masquerading ("Kenton L. Brown")
Re: Problems with rexecd (Michael Hutchinson)
Re: About installing 3com Etherlink XL 10/100mb TX (Feiyi Wang)
Re: Where to get Netscape for linux ? (Jason Luther)
Re: question about kernel 2.0.30. (Bjarne Nygaard)
ppp-2.3.1 won4t compile ... (Wolfgang)
Re: script/program to get IP from name?? (Drew Bernat)
Multilink PPP on Linux (Thomas Lester)

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
From: gl...@nowsoft.com (Tod Glenn)
Subject: help:Soundblaster 16pnp vs NIC card
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 04:26:32 GMT

Greetings,

I'm having a problen setting up redhat linux networking. The installer
won't recognize the NIC card (3comm 3c509). After some experimentation, I
tried removing the sound card, and voila, the nic works. Anyone know a
fix? I tried using the creative config utility, but there doesn't seem to
be an easy way to disable pnp.

Thanks

--
Tod Glenn
gl...@nowsoft.com

"Everything I know, I learned from killing smart people and eating their brains"

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From: lea...@mail.dec.com (Jay Leafey)
Subject: Re: DEC etherworks turbo type DE202
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 97 03:45:06 GMT

In article <33D73FA3...@kiosk.ch>, Ingo Etienne <eti...@kiosk.ch>
wrote:
|I'm running RedHat 4.1 and NT 4.0 on my P133/32Meg with the DEC de202
|net adapter and a Matrox PCI card.
|With NT there are no problems using the ethernet adapter, but Linux
|didn't detect it. First I've tryed to compile the driver into the kernel
|second I made it a module and installed it using >>insmod depca.o<< with
|several io/irq's but no attempt was running.
|On startup every time Linux told me "delaying eth0 initialisation"
|later on ifconfig or insmod didn't work, too.
|insmod gave me a message like this "can't locate eth0 at 0x2000" or
|something similar.

I'm currently using a DE200 (10B2/AUI version) of that card. The
DE200/201/202 are all basically the same card with different
transceiver options. The default settings are IRQ 5, IO port 300, membase
D0000. The RedHat 4.1 stuff recognized it when I used the default settings,
but had some problems when I had to change the IRQ. You should make sure the
following lines are in /etc/conf.modules to support the card:

options eth0 io=0x300 irq=5
alias eth0 depca

Obviously, make sure you put in the IO port and IRQ you are using. If you
don't have the documentation for the card, go to
http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/adapters/html/products/ethernet.htm for
pointers to more information, including the owners' manual in PostScript
format.

Jay

---
==============================================================================
Jay Leafey Work: lea...@mail.dec.com
Memphis, TN Play: jle...@netten.net

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From: gwe...@geocities.com (Gregory Weeks)
Subject: Re: does masquerading work w/ 2.0.30?
Date: 2 Aug 1997 02:38:26 GMT

I've got it working with diald. I'm useing the newest patch set for diald as of
last weekend.

Greg Weeks

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From: Lars Hofhansl <lhof...@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: IP masquerade and PING
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 12:51:21 -0400

| ipfwadm -F -a m -S mypc/32 0.0.0.0/0
|
| works, but it also allows every other services, how can I switch off ftp, telnet
| or better yet, just use ipfwadm to enable only ICMP .
|

Hi,

what's wrong with -P icmp ?

Cheers,

Lars

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From: pa...@softland.demon.co.uk (Paul Taylor)
Subject: Kingston KNE30BT supported?
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 15:13:30 GMT

Is this Ethernet card supported? It seems to have a Realtek 8029
chipset. Please mail me if you can help. Thanks.

Paul

------------------------------

From: pno...@cts.com (Paul P. Norton)
Subject: Re: Token Ring adapters - info needed
Date: 01 Aug 1997 12:31:20 -0700

sb...@taz.tac.com (Sue Bauer-Lee) writes:

| For those that know.....
|
| I am searching for updated info regarding Linux and token ring
| adapters.
|
| 1) Does Linux _still_ only support the tropic chipset?
| (a previous post indicating that someone swapped a Madge card for an
| IBM card maybe confirmation of this :( )

The Linux ibmtr driver only supports IBM Shared-RAM token-ring
adapters and 100% compatibles. See Mike Eckhoff's Token-Ring
Mini-HOWTO for a list.

| It is my understanding that token ring adapters using the tropic
| chipset do not support promiscuous mode.

That is correct.

| Is anyone considering remedying this situation any time soon?

Yes. :-)

I've been working on a driver for the IBM LANStreamer PCI adapter
(which _does_ support promiscuous mode) without a whole lot of
success to report to date. Olicom is having drivers written for
at least one of their adapters and the rumor is that both IBM
and Madge are expending some effort writing Linux drivers for
their adapters.

| Thanks in advance.
|
| Sue

Paul

------------------------------

From: cbbr...@news.brownes.org (Christopher B. Browne)
Subject: Re: Opinions Wanted: Which OS?

Date: 2 Aug 1997 03:50:53 GMT
Reply-To: cbbr...@hex.net

On Fri, 01 Aug 1997 08:23:44 -0400, Tom Elsesser <tels...@gatecom.com> posted:
|James Youngman wrote:
|
|> Your terminals almost certainly are NOT "dumb terminals". What model
|> are they? What do thes labels on the fron of the screen say?

| The terminals are Wyse60's. I assumed these were called "dumb"
|terminals, as they only display text. The point of my reply was that
|most software for unix is now written for x-windows, and not curses.

There certainly exist "dumber" terminals (VC404, anyone?), but
Wyse 60's could reasonably be characterized as "dumb terminals."

At one point, terminals of that sort were called "smart terminals,"
which related to the fact that they were substantially more powerful
than the *really* dumb ones.

The difference these days is pretty moot, because the average
person has an actual computer on their desk that's substantially
more powerful than any "mere" text terminal.
--
Christopher B. Browne, cbbr...@hex.net, chris_...@sdt.com
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URL: <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/>
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From: "Bruno Prior" <br...@prior.ftech.co.uk>
Subject: Modules net-pf-4/5 - What are they?
Date: 2 Aug 1997 02:48:12 GMT

I am trying to network my computers under Linux. On one I have installed a
3Com 3c509B. I have compiled the driver into the kernel. When I boot up, I
get error messages stating "modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4" and the
same for "net-pf-5", repeated several times. I can't find a mention of
these modules anywhere. What are they, and how do I find them/get rid of
the error messages?

Just in case it's relevant, my vital statistics are: Red Hat 4.1, kernel
2.0.27, running on a P120, 32Mb RAM, 2Gb hard disk space.

Incidentally, I've only just reached the point where I can ping one
computer from another (I can't do much else yet, but I think that's because
I've got to sort out my network configuration), so I can't tell whether
this error is having any effect.

Cheers,

Bruno Prior br...@prior.ftech.co.uk

------------------------------

From: ajs...@mcs.net ()
Subject: Re: IP masquerade and PING
Date: 2 Aug 1997 04:30:10 GMT
Reply-To: ajs...@mcs.net

In article <5rrjva$vjv$1...@opera.iinet.net.au>, From Maptek - Vulcan
<vul...@opera.iinet.net.au>, the following was written:
|
| ipfwadm -F -a m -S mypc/32 0.0.0.0/0
|

| or better yet, just use ipfwadm to enable only ICMP .

ipfwadm -F -a m -P icmp -S mypc/32 0.0.0.0/0

Use the -P option to specify tcp, udp, or icmp.
For ping outbound only, do:
Allow only ICMP echo request packets outbound, and
ICMP echo request packets inbound.

BEWARE: 1) This is subject to denial of service attack.
2) Anyone can ping you, and find out # hosts, IP addr.
Allowing for that many more tries at denial of service.
Bet you have a hole somewhere! ;^)

--
ajs...@mcs.net
08/01/97 23:30

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From: "Carlos Miragall" <carm...@etsii.NOSPAM.upv.es>
Subject: Problems connecting to NT-RAS
Date: 30 Jul 1997 15:25:18 GMT
Reply-To: "Carlos Miragall" <no...@micasa.org>

I am not very used with Linux, but I'd want to connect to a Windows NT -
LAN via dial-up.
I have tried ppp-2.3.1, but it doesn't compile (it doesn't find many files
that really exist!)
I have installed and running ppp-2.2.0 , but it was precompiled and it
doesn't work allright.

NEED HELP!!

Thanks to all. Please answer by mail too (remove the NOSPAM from the
address)

------------------------------

From: Steve Weiland <st...@wiseearth.com>
Subject: alarm on modem init
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 16:42:47 -0700
Reply-To: st...@wiseearth.com

I would appreciate any help with the following problem. I am attempting
to dial my isp with a usr internal modem. I have a dual boot system
NT/linux. The modem works fine w/ NT. I have tried numerous init strings
with chat and dip. I receive an alarm instead of 'OK' from the modem.

Thanks

Steve

------------------------------

From: "William R. Mattil" <wrma...@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Problems with rexecd
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 22:53:28 -0500

Take a look at the directory /etc/pam.d I'm going to take a wild guess
here and suggest that you need to modify the file rexec. This is a
change from earlier RedHat releases where all of this info was in a
single file /etc/pam.d...... I have tried this under RedHat 4.0/4.1 but
I have not had to do this under 4.2 yet.... So YMMV but it should work.

Regards
Bill
--
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wrma...@ix.netcom.com | Ginger had to do it all backwards
(972) 256-3219 ........| and in high heels

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From: "Kenton L. Brown" <kbr...@missions4him.com>
Subject: Re: Linux Networking and IP Masquerading
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 00:47:56 -0500

I just did that today. I used the example in ip-masquerade HOWTO. Exactly
how they have it. I set my
Internet Cards to the same address and put everything in just like he/she
had it. It works find. I'm
using it to write this to you.

Make sure you put the two lines that it takes right into your
/etc/rc.d/rc.local file. Just use the
simple two liner to do it the first time. Then worry about all that
security stuff after you get it working.
lpfwadm -F -p deny
Ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.2/32 -D 0.0.0.0/0 (this allows just computer
192.168.1.2 to access)

There is an example to let your whole private network use the masq. also.

Make sure you have all your network cards working. You can ftp/telnet your
Linux and you
can make a PPP connection to the net and access the net before you try the
above.

I hope this helps.

Mike Carpentier wrote in article <33DD01B1...@osfn.org>...

|Greetings all,
| I'm not a newbie to Linux, but I am very stupid when it comes to
|networking with it. I have Redhat ver 4.2 installed in a pentium 100,
|and a 486 sx. I got both versions of Linux to detect / talk with my
|network cards. How can I get each machine to share files?
| I'd also like to find out how I can dial up to my ISP using one
|machine, and use ip masquerading to be able to use ppp on both
|machines. I know it's possible, but it's all too confusing. If someone
|could, could you direct me to somewhere that I can get straight out
|help, or try to explain it to me yourself.
|
|Thanks a lot!
|-Mike
|

------------------------------

From: Michael Hutchinson <mhu...@pcisys.net>
Subject: Re: Problems with rexecd
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 00:46:33 -0600

I am having the same problem with 4.2. I have checked the services,
inetd.conf, and hosts.allow files, and everything looks OK. I also
checked the rexec file in /etc/pam.d and it looks OK (although I might
not know...). Interestingly tcpdchk and tcpdmatch both generate output
but hang without returning a prompt. Don't know if that is related or
not.

I currently telnet into the system and push the display back manually.
This works just fine, and indicates the problem is with rexec.

I get an error which says "connection ended prematurely". The
/var/log/messages file has an entry which shows in.rexecd was started,
but that is all.

Anyone have any other ideas?

-- Michael

------------------------------

From: Feiyi Wang <fwa...@eos.ncsu.edu>
Subject: Re: About installing 3com Etherlink XL 10/100mb TX
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 23:18:56 -0400

Hi,

- If you just begin to install from boot disk (assume you are using
Redhat), try "autoprobe" 3com card.

- If you already have a running linux, but kernel can't recoganize the
card. You need to check if it is enabled in kernel. Go to
/usr/src/linux/, do "make menuconfig", move to "network device support",
enable 3com card support, recompile and reinstall the kernel.

P.S. If you are not sure if your 3com card is supported by kernel, check
Ethernet HOWTO document.

Hope this helps.

Feiyi

------------------------------

From: jlu...@uiuc.edu (Jason Luther)
Subject: Re: Where to get Netscape for linux ?
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 13:49:03 -0600

In article <01bc9e97$31176b80$907ecec2@info.p>, "Prygiel P.M."
<ppry...@nordnet.fr> wrote:

Netscape for linux is available from Netscape (the company), and it is
mirrored in several places. I recommend
<ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/www/netscape/>.

There are a few graphical web browsers for Linux, but none offer the
features of Netscape. NCSA dropped development on Mosaic a long time ago.

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From: Bjarne Nygaard <b...@post4.tele.N.O.S.P.A.M.dk>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.act.kernel,linux.dev.kernel,list.linux-activists.kernel
Subject: Re: question about kernel 2.0.30.
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 00:49:34 +0200

Hi..

Cvrchack wrote:
|
| I didn't make PPP and SLIP as a modules and after compiling both PPP and
| SLIP work perfectly. As it seems I did everything right including 'make
| modules' and 'make modules_install' but those errors still appear.
|

Yes, the modules are obviously still not loaded. :(

I configured my kernel for 'automatic' module loading and activated
a line in my /etc/rc.d/rc.modules script:

/sbin/depmod -a

cu
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| If you would email me remove NOSPAM in the address |
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Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 05:45:19 +0200
From: Wolfgang <dream...@dreampeace.ul.bawue.de>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: ppp-2.3.1 won4t compile ...

I just installed the new ppp-2.3.1 and it failed to compile (included in
kernel or as a module). I do have modules-2.0.0 installed already. This
is what I get during compilation:

ppp.c: In function `ppp_init_dev':
ppp.c:458: `PPP_HARD_HDR_LEN' undeclared (first use this function)
ppp.c:458: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
ppp.c:458: for each function it appears in.)
ppp.c: In function `ppp_tty_write':
ppp.c:2234: warning: implicit declaration of function `copy_from_user'
ppp.c:2198: warning: `proto' might be used uninitialized in this
function
ppp.c: At top level:
ppp.c:217: warning: `max_dev' defined but not used
make[2]: *** [ppp.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.30/drivers/net'
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.30/drivers'
make: *** [modules] Error 2
dreampeace:/usr/src/linux-2.0.30 #

Thanx for any help !

-- Wolfgang Rufeger ----- o o ----- W.Ru...@dreampeace.ul.bawue.de --
--- Tokajerweg 25 -------- O --------- http://home.pages.de/~wolf/ ----
===== 89075 Ulm =======================================================
===== 0731/51293 ======================================================

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From: abe...@Dragon.st.hmc.edu (Drew Bernat)
Subject: Re: script/program to get IP from name??
Date: 1 Aug 1997 22:10:23 GMT

Michael Beauregard (_beaurega_@_nortel.com_) wrote:
: Is there a script or program that I can use in my script to return the
: IP address of a host in my hosts file?

Try munging around with the nslookup command. I know that there are
some C calls to do the same thing, but nslookup is what you want.

Drew

--
Drew Bernat|abe...@hmc.edu __ _____ http://www3.hmc.edu/~abernat
<*> Cyrix 6x86: Who needs Quake? | | | Linux user: Daemon tamer
| |
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From: Thomas Lester <tle...@nakedcity.com>
Subject: Multilink PPP on Linux
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 19:56:31 -0500
Reply-To: tle...@nakedcity.com

I have a 3com Impact IQ that supports Multilink PPP and my provider also
supports it.

If I connect via Windows NT it negotiates Both B channels (128K), but it
wont negotiate both channels under Linux (where I really want it to
run).

If anyone can help me with this, I would greatly appriciate it.

Thanks,
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Subject: Linux-Networking Digest #315

Linux-Networking Digest #315, Volume #6 Fri, 1 Aug 97 21:14:27 EDT

Contents:
local chaching DNS (Paul Bennett)
NFS-Installation (Albrecht Melan)
rfc: dummy-setup (Samuli Kaski)
Re: Opinions Wanted: Which OS? (Frank Sweetser)
Re: TCP/IP Firewall (Bruce Cook)
cablmodem install under linux ethernet (Marilyn Elizabeth Hayner)
3com EtherLink XL (3C900-TPO) ("Kevin Sik")
NFS export only to nodes listed in /etc/hosts. (Joseph Kotran)
Re: Diald coring the kernle ("Francisco A. Camargo")
Win95 and Linux server: Pings but no telnet. (Garry Charles Kinnane)
Re: Slow PPP connection : HELP / Personal experience with irqturn? (Nelson Tibbitt)
Re: NFS-Installation ("William R. Mattil")
Re: Linux server with Windoze clients (Michael Beauregard)
Secure linux shell and client (Wilder)
Re: Problem with MS NetMeeting 2.0 via Linux-Gateway ("Mark Edwards")
Re: Modem Help! ("William R. Mattil")
Re: Whacked out my Linux install (Doug Roberts)

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From: ben...@cc.gatech.edu (Paul Bennett)
Subject: local chaching DNS
Date: 31 Jul 1997 17:39:40 GMT

I can connection to my nameserver by doing a nslookup - 127.0.0.1
but I can not connect to it using nslookup - 38.225.71.3. I am
just running a chaching name server. An Ideas?

The address of the machine that I am on, and that the nameserver
is running on is 28.226.71.3. Thanks

-- Paul

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From: Albrecht Melan <me...@isd.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: NFS-Installation
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 19:50:08 +0200

Hi there,

I tried to install RedHat4.2 via NFS (server has cdrom).
Just client and server on one ethernet.
Hardware could be verfied and works.

Filling in the installationforms with the IP-adresses needed
the client couldn't mount the exported cdrom. I couldn't even
ping the client.

I omitted the DNS-stuff cause IP-Adresses should be sufficient.

Did I forget something and/or did I make a severe error ?

Thanks for help
Albrecht
--

========================+==O=O==============================
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| <me...@isd.uni-stuttgart.de>
Uni Stuttgart, Germany |
ISD | 0711--685 3623
========================+===================================
"If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it."
Epstein's Law

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From: samk...@cc.helsinki.fi (Samuli Kaski)
Subject: rfc: dummy-setup
Date: 31 Jul 1997 17:13:32 GMT

Howdy!

I have this situation where I need a local mapping for a real NIC IP
because there is a NATing happening in between me, my ISP and the
Internet. To put in short I can't access the NIC IP from Linux box
unless I add a dummy device like

/sbin/ifconfig dummy xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
/sbin/route add -net xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.255 dev dummy

I can ofcourse use the fake IP address that the ISP does the NATing
on but some utilities like talk need this setup. Now, this arrangement
allows me to address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx from my Linux box. It seemed
apparent to me that I couldn't achieve the same thing with localhost
because of the different network addresses and the netmasks but is
there any other way to achieve this? Mainly the absence of statistics
for the dummy device bugs me.

--
Samuli Kaski, samk...@cc.helsinki.fi
Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.

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From: Frank Sweetser <rasm...@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Subject: Re: Opinions Wanted: Which OS?

Date: 31 Jul 1997 14:00:32 -0400

Tom Elsesser <tels...@gatecom.com> writes:

| Hi,
| I run a small (20 person) manufacturing shop. Currently, we have 5

| Wyse60 terminals connected to a SCO unix 3.2 4.2 box. Our database, job
| write-up, and quoting software were custom written in SCO Foxbase 2.1.1,
| which means we have a Y2K problem. I got quotes to get the Y2K bug fixed
| from a local developer, but found that it would be very expensive,
| partly because our accounting software (SBT) is Foxbase driven. The way
| I see it, I have 4 options:

| As you can see, everything is fairly comparable, but a new

| manufacturing package would compliment our business nicely. The SCO runs

| beautifully right now, no problems in 7 years. While not a unix guru, I
| have maintained the system for 4 years, adding users & printers; easy

| stuff like that. Any opinions, suggestions, guidance, and comments would
| be greatly appreciated.

I would go with option #3, for several reasons:

1) If you look, I'll be that you could find a new package that would still
run over the terminals. This cuts out the connectivity software and the
cost of getting/setting up 95 machines. Or, you could perhaps hire some
developers to write a new text-only database, gdbm backend - this could
be cheaper than a full-blown new system, might be feasable given you
have a small operation, and you could get any new features you want
added in.

2) You already know SCO. Chances are, you'll have enough trouble just
getting a new database package installed - that's not the time to start
learning the differences between linux/*BSD and SCO, especially since
you've never had any problems with the SCO setup. If it ain't broke,
don't fix it.

3) While there is some commercial softare out there for *BSD and linux, SCO
has more, if for no other reason than by virtue of having been around
longer.

Of course, all this is just MHO... :)
--
Windows: I can play Doom! |RedHat Linux 2.0.31pre-2 i486
Linux: I can be a file server, be a Web|Because reboots are for upgrades!
server, run the accounting package with|http://www.wpi.edu/~rasmusin/pgp.html
twelve terminals AND play Doom! |for pgp key. frank sweetser

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From: Bruce Cook <BC3...@bigfoot.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.networks,comp.os.linux.help,comp.unix.admin,linux.net,linux.net.atm
Subject: Re: TCP/IP Firewall
Date: 01 Aug 1997 02:00:21 -0800

"Aaron Scamehorn" <ajs...@mcs.net> writes:

| I have just installed a kernel level packet filter firewall on gateway
| running linux.
| The gateway is for our internal network 192.168.1.0, and another private
| network
|
| On the same ethernet backbone on our.net, a Novell fileserver, and approx
| 15 users
| are running ipx/spx and a little tcp/ip.
|
| Question: What does the firewall do with the ipx/spx traffic?
|
| If the answer is forwarded/passes through/ignored then this is bad! I am
| vulnerable, right?

Gateways forward packets that are sent to them but with a
different destination IP address. The firewall acts by controlling
which packets it will forward of those sent to it.

As IPX isn't using this mechanism the IP forwarding code will not
forward IPX. (What it doesn't receive, it can't send on)

There is support for IPX forwarding for Linux - don't know how you
do that though.

| Question2: Are there any firewalls that do tcp/ip and/or ipx/spx ?

Plenty of commercial ones - have a look at 3COM or Cisco for starters.

--
...BRU

Bruce Cook, Synonet Corp.
E-Mail: bc...@wantree.com.au
Phone: +061 15 999 330

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From: hay...@news.oswego.edu (Marilyn Elizabeth Hayner )
Subject: cablmodem install under linux ethernet
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:54:24 GMT

Are there any FAQs on installing a cablemodem under linux?
I installed my ethernet card fine and it is recognized when
i boot, but i am clueless from there on. If anyone can point
me in the right direction id love you to death. Im currently
using a 3com 3509B card (kernel compiled with the driver) and a
Toshiba PCX101 cablemodem, with Time Warner's Roadrunner service.
I tried poking around with rc.inet1 but im very new to linux.
Thanks for any help!
Marilyn Hayner
hay...@oswego.edu

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From: "Kevin Sik" <sik...@cs.curtin.edu.au>
Subject: 3com EtherLink XL (3C900-TPO)
Date: 31 Jul 1997 19:12:33 GMT

Hi All,

I apologise if this is already in some FAQ.

Can somone direct me to where and how I can get linux to support this
driver ?

Any info/ideas will be much appreciated.

Regards,
Kevin

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From: Joseph Kotran <Joseph...@atl.lmco.com>
Subject: NFS export only to nodes listed in /etc/hosts.
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 17:04:55 -0400

Hello,

I am having trouble with my Red Hat 4.2 installation. For some unknown
reason, only nodes that are listed in the server's /etc/hosts file may
mount NFS exports from the Linux server. This problem has started for
no apparent reason and as far as I can tell the problem is not with the
clients.

If you could offer any constructive advice, I would be very grateful.
Thank you for your time.

Best regards,

--
Joseph Kotran, Systems Administrator Lockheed Martin
Phone: 609.338.4327 Advanced Technology Laboratories
Fax: 609.338.4121 1 Federal St. A&E 3W
Email: Joseph...@atl.lmco.com Camden, NJ 08102

------------------------------

From: "Francisco A. Camargo" <cam...@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: Diald coring the kernle
Date: 27 Jul 97 04:32:23 GMT

Hi KFR,

Hi, I seem to get the same message every now and then... well, more likely
when my diald slip
connection gets stablished... but I don't get a core dump, and everything
keeps flowing normally.
I'm intrigued thou, and would like to know what you find out.

Francisco Camargo / cam...@ibm.net
A.C.C.S

KFR <gti...@phoenix.common.net> wrote in article
<33DA4C71...@phoenix.common.net>...
| Jul 25 19:52:03 parkade kernel: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from
| 204.50.136.42!
| Jul 25 19:52:06 parkade last message repeated 4 times
|
| The kernel seem's to core, and all services die
| Any1 know why/how diald would cause this?
|
|

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From: gkin...@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Garry Charles Kinnane)
Subject: Win95 and Linux server: Pings but no telnet.
Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:23:19 GMT

I'm new to networking, I've just tried connecting my father's WIN95 box to my
linux box via serial link.
I've written a script to fool windoze into think my linux box is a modem and
then inittab runs pppd and hey proesto, TCP/IP.

So my setup has 2 interfaces, my ISP's ppp connection (using slirp at the other
end) and ppp to my father's WIN95 box.
However so far, I've only managed to connect using http and ftp.

2 things that don't work yet:
ftp direct to the linux box from the WIN95 box.
telnet direct to the linux box from the WIN95 box.

the first isn't so important yet (I havn't tried fixing it yet as my time is
still taken up by ...)
The second, which is important.

I have no idea why my linux host (called maiysha, class C 192.168.1.100)
won't accept remote telnet.
I can ping maiysha from the WIN95 box.

maiysha is a 6x86-PR166 with Kernel 2.0.29 configured with all network options
but multicast.
The pppd to the WIN95 has proxyarp enabled (so does the Kernel)
and the defaultroute is only chosen when connecting to my ISP.

Initially it only accepted telnet from the console via direct loopback.
i.e. telnet localhost
(Pretty useless huh!)
After reading everything I could find (all IP related HOWTOS and mini Howtos)
I thought maybe it was a network class problem so I aliased the loopback
device to 192.168.1.102 and now I can telnet to this address but still only
from the console (maybe I need a proper netmask setup ??)

Am I missing something really obvious ?
Oh yeah, I also tried fooling around with the dummy network device with no
success (even enabled 10Mbps Ethernet protocol when I don't have ethernet)
Also hosts.access and hosts.deny have been checked.

Any hints/obvious flaws/enlightenment would be much apreciated.

Corley.

------------------------------

From: n...@magnon.chaos.net (Nelson Tibbitt)
Subject: Re: Slow PPP connection : HELP / Personal experience with irqturn?
Date: 29 Jul 1997 14:36:27 GMT
Reply-To: nel...@interpath.com

Woops.. er.. my mistake. "default" mtu/mru are _not_ 296 ...
they're 1500 .. oh well this might help if your mtu/mru are set
to something other than 1500.

In article <5rbli4$e...@redstone.interpath.net>,
n...@magnon.chaos.net (Nelson Tibbitt) writes:
|
| I had the same problem. Default mtu and mru are 296, which made things
| much slower. In RedHat control-panel/network interface setup there should
| be a section for pppd options, add "mtu 1500 mru 1500" there.
|
|
|> Hi, all. I am new user of Linux. ( RedHat 4.1 on Pentium 200, 28.8 modem).
|> So far everything works out great except the PPP connection to my ISP. The
|> data transfer rate is always around 10E2 bytes/sec or lower and got
|> disconnected from time to time. But when I tried

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From: "William R. Mattil" <wrma...@ix.netcom.com>

Subject: Re: NFS-Installation
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 16:20:28 -0500

Albrecht Melan wrote:
|
| Hi there,
|
| I tried to install RedHat4.2 via NFS (server has cdrom).
| Just client and server on one ethernet.
| Hardware could be verfied and works.
|
|
| Filling in the installationforms with the IP-adresses needed
| the client couldn't mount the exported cdrom. I couldn't even
| ping the client.
|
| I omitted the DNS-stuff cause IP-Adresses should be sufficient.
|
| Did I forget something and/or did I make a severe error ?
|
| Thanks for help
| Albrecht
| --
|
| ------------------------+--O-O------------------------------
| Albrecht Melan | -
| | <me...@isd.uni-stuttgart.de>
| Uni Stuttgart, Germany |
| ISD | 0711--685 3623
| ------------------------+-----------------------------------
| "If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it."
| Epstein's Law

Not really enough information here to go on. Is the Server running Red
Hat also ? What it really sounds like is a permissions thing. Make sure
that the NFS mount can be exported to the machine in question. Whats the
/etc/exports look like for the server ???
----/etc/exports ------
/mnt/cdrom (ro,all_squash)
/mnt/cdrom *.yourdomain.XXX(ro)
=======================

Something like this should be sufficient. But ..... make sure that it is
mounted :^)

Bill
--
William R. Mattil......| Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day
wrma...@ix.netcom.com.| Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.
(972) 256-3219.........| - unknown

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From: Michael Beauregard <_beaurega_@_nortel.com_>
Subject: Re: Linux server with Windoze clients
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 14:32:54 -0600
Reply-To: _beaurega_@_nortel.com_

Brian McCauley wrote:
|
| "Paul M. Foster" <pa...@quillandmouse.com> writes:
|
| > I've heard something about something called Samba in
| > this regard, but I know nothing about it.
|
| Basic information on Samba and URLs can be found in Linux SMB-HOWTO.
|

Are there any X smb clients.

Michael.

--
Remove all underscores out of my e-mail address.

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From: ajwi...@wam.umd.edu (Wilder)
Subject: Secure linux shell and client
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 97 04:30:31 GMT

I am wondering if anyone has found a secure linux shell and a dos/windows
counterpart so that a tcp/ip connection can be encrypted between client and
server. I am sure that something like this has to exist but i just dont know
where to begin looking. I know that tcp/ip passwords are sent in clear text
and i am hoping that i can use this shell to reliably access my linux server
from home without haveing my line sniffed by half the campus.

anything that can at least point me in the right direction would be greatly
appreciated.

thanks

Wilder

|*******************************************|
Wilder
ajwi...@wam.umd.edu::ajwi...@glue.umd.edu
Linux?....Because its better.
|*******************************************|

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From: "Mark Edwards" <medw...@greenside.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Problem with MS NetMeeting 2.0 via Linux-Gateway
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 23:56:52 GMT

Hi Peter,

A couple of suggestions - I'm a little bit of a rookie at this too - and I
have had the same problem as you. This suggestion has not been tested yet -
if you get it to work - please let me know!

Try configuring IPAUTOFW MASQ SUPPORT in the kernel configuration -
deframenting the packets may also help...

Mark

Peter Bochmann <finanzkan...@abo.freiepresse.de> wrote in article
<01bc9e85$473ab500$04e919c2@cyrix>...
| Hi there!
|
| I have a problem with NetMeeting via my Linux-Gateway.
| Linux is configured for ip-masquerading and it works great for my
Win95-LAN
| (192.168.1.0) with http/ftp/irc and so on.
| But NetMeeting is unable to recive incoming calls or audio/video-stream
| data.
| I think it's because this packets are not requested from NetMeeting, so
no
| maquerading request is registered on the gateway-machine to be proceeded.
| My questions:
| -whitch ports are used by NetMeeting 2.0 for call control, audio/video
and
| so on?
| -how i must setup my gateway to get this ports passing through into my
LAN
| without a registered request?
|
| Thanks for your help :-)
|
| Peter
|

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From: "William R. Mattil" <wrma...@ix.netcom.com>

Subject: Re: Modem Help!
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 16:28:06 -0500

ramonm wrote:
|
| This may sound lame but how can I get my modem to dial out with the
| cu command in a color xterm? All I know is my modem is on /dev/cua1.
| When I try giving a command like cu -l /dev/cua1 I get a 'connected'.
| Now what do I do next? Do I open another xterm and give the at
| commands? I've tried issuing the command 'at\' but all I get is a
| prompt like this: > Now what do I do? Maybe my modem is not
| configured right. So how do I go about doing it. Maybe the setserial
| command? HELP!

sigh.....

How about +++ATZ ????? Does that return an "OK" ? If so, then
ATDTXXX-XXXX will dial the number. The AT\ may (or may not) work for a
bunch of reasons. 1) you have to "wake up" the modem. (+++ does this)
2) Your modem maynot accept lower case. (AT) 3) dunno how cu treats the
backslash ??? Should work but ??? since it doesn't in your case try the
simple stuff first. You might also try reading the modem manual too.

Regards
Bill
PS: the X-term should not be a factor one way or the other. Also,
since you may not have a modem manual.. AT -h or AT ? or AT? may dump a
simple command list.
--
William R. Mattil......| Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day
wrma...@ix.netcom.com.| Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.
(972) 256-3219.........| - unknown

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From: no-...@headspace.com (Doug Roberts)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Whacked out my Linux install
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 17:47:13 -0800

In article <no-spam-ya0240800...@news1.alterdial.uu.net>,
no-...@headspace.com (Doug Roberts) wrote:

| All I wanted was network...
|
| I'm running Slackware 2.0.29 on PPro 200 with an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card
| and a 3Com 3C905 ethernet card. Everything was working except for the known
| problems with the 3C905 card. I got the updated 3c59x.c and .o files,
| installed the module, and in messing with /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, somehow
| messed it up.

... and in mere moments afer posting, I figured it out. If anyone cares,
here's what I did:

- shut down the machine and pulled the ethernet card out.
- rebooted Linux, ignoring the errors as it realized it was now missing the
card.
- after a successful boot, I fixed the rc.inet1 file (I had left the
broadcast address blank)
- reinstalled the network card and rebooted into Linux
- TA DA!

IRQ conflict: resolved
Network: working

The other 12 voices in my head think I'm a genius - let's not tell them it
was blind luck.
Doug Roberts
do...@headspace.com
============
The views I express do not reflect those of the other voices I hear in my head.
(Do too!) (Do not!)
(Do too!) (Do not!)
(Too!) (Not!)

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To: Linux-Ne...@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu

Subject: Linux-Networking Digest #318

Linux-Networking Digest #318, Volume #6 Sat, 2 Aug 97 14:40:34 EDT

Contents:
Re: Kingston PCI Ethernet card supported? (Jason Nielsen)
Re: Linux Web server problem (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: ipfwadm and local net (Bernard M. Piller)
Re: PLIP, ifconfig & IRQ-problem(?) ("F. Herwig")
rc.local question ("Orlan Franks, III")
NE2000 card problem (wu jiannan)
RedHat Linux NFS and PCNFSD (Mark Rivers)
D-Link DE500 VL Bus Ethernet card - kernel does not find card (Mike Debreceni)
Re: ppp-> NT server with dialback (Kenton Brown)
MSCHAP (Kenton Brown)
amd maps over nis (Dr. Bunsen Honeydew)
serial setup problem (Julian Stout)
Re: TIS Proxy Firewall - httpd (Paul D. Robertson)

3Com 3c589 troubles - Help! ("Bruno Prior")

Setting up Linux as a Print Server (How?) (Jennifer Evans)
Re: Token Ring and IPX (Gilbert Ramirez)
Local Webserver ("Jules")
Re: Linux <-> MS Mail Interaction??? (Christopher B. Browne)
ppp connected but cant communicate (Tom)
Re: alarm on modem init ("William R. Mattil")
Re: PPP-GO script (Gerard Oberle)

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From: Jason Nielsen <jnie...@aros.net>
Subject: Re: Kingston PCI Ethernet card supported?
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 11:37:26 -0600

Leslie Richardson wrote:

| taylor wrote:
| >
| > I am considering getting a Kingston PCI Ethernet card. Are they
| supported
| > and are they a good choice?
| >
| > Pa

I will be posting seperately about this in the newsgroups but I am
having a problem with this card. If you have any suggestions it would
be greatly appreciated.

KNE100TX - Kingston PCI 10/100 PnP NIC
RH 4.1 linux - Kernel 2.0.27
Driver - Tulip DEC 21xxx

The driver loads and detects the card properly.
Output from "dmesg"

tulip.c:v0.10 8/11/95 bec...@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
+0.72 4/17/96 http://www.dsl.tutics.tut.ac.jp/~linux/tulip

+0.01 10/24/96 mja...@feral.com (2.1.7)
eth0: 21140 (DEC 21140 Tulip) at 0xe000, 00:c0:f0:16:2a:cb, IRQ 11

The IRQ and IO are defintely correct. This same card works fine in OS/2
and NT.

During booting and continuely afterwards I get the following messages.

eth0: enabling 10TP port.
eth0: enabling 100TX port.

This never seems to stop.

I can ping myself (ping 192.168.168.1) but I cannot ping anyother
machines on the LAN nor can they ping me. Nor do I ever see the
activity light on the hub blink though the Link/TX LED is lit(as well as
the NIC LED). The card(according to the LED on the NIC) is in 10base
mode which is correct for this portion of the LAN. I have also
connected to the 100base portion with no luck.

ifconfig output for eth0:

eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:16:2A:CB
inet addr:192.168.168.1 Bcast:192.168.168.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000

route output for eth0:

192.168.168.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 2
eth0

NOTE: THis is only NIC in the machine.

Could you post any replies as well as email. Not sure how often I will
get back to the NGs.

Thanks.

Jason Nielsen
jnie...@aros.net

------------------------------

From: Henrik Carlqvist <henrik.c...@swipnet.se>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,uc.linuxusers
Subject: Re: Linux Web server problem
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:38:42 +0200

Erik Pfingsten wrote:
| It SEEMS to be set up correctly, however network access TO the machine
| is very spotty. If I'm at the machine itself, I can telnet out, use
| the web, ftp etc, etc. with no problem. But if anyone tries to
| connect to the server (telnet session, web pages, etc) it seems to go
| up and down constantly for no reason

Have you tried to ping to and from your machine to see if the network
seems fine. Have you checked /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog to
see if there are any error messages? You could also try with another
network adapter, the best would be another brand with another driver.

regards Henrik

--
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nobody@localhost postmaster@localhost
root@localhost operator@localhost

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From: ho...@rrr.net_NOSPAM (Bernard M. Piller)
Subject: Re: ipfwadm and local net
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 15:35:16 +0200

Mark Edwards <medw...@greenside.demon.co.uk> wrote:

| Is it ipfwadm that is starting the link,. or are you using something like
| diald?

Yes I am using diald, sorry. Can I set up the rule for diald?

Bernard

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From: "F. Herwig" <fhe...@aip.de>
Subject: Re: PLIP, ifconfig & IRQ-problem(?)
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 16:02:54 +0200

Vic Mortelmans wrote:
|
| I've managed to configure a PLIP-connection between two linux-machines,
| but something goes wrong trying to ifconfig the devices.
|
| I guess (but I'm not 100% sure since documentation is quite cryptic)
| this second parallel port is on io0x278,irq2 so I try 'insmod plip
| io=0x278 irq=2'. A plipx-device appears in /proc/net/dev and probing it
| by 'ifconfig plipx' the io&irq settings seem to be correct. Trying to
| ifconfig the PLIP 'up' I get the message: 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again',
| which I do NOT understand !

I have a similar problem with device plip2: I get the same error message
'SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again'. On another Linux box with the identical
distribution (Suse 4.4.1)
installed I tried the same procedure to setup the plip device
with the identical kernel compilation (both with plip as module and
static).
Here the parallel port is identified as plip0 and I had no problems to
configure
the device with ifconfig, add the appropriate route-entries and telnet
...

In both examples I connected to a notebook with the same cable. On the
notebook
the parallel port is at plip1 ?!?

Any idea in the meantime?

Cheers,

Falk Herwig

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From: "Orlan Franks, III" <moo...@tamu.edu>
Subject: rc.local question
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 09:00:49 -0500

I have a program which does some logging, but only when I execute it
explicitly from the command line. I now want it to run every time the
computer boots (100% of the time). Since it runs continuously,
including it in the rc.local file never lets rc.local complete. Thus, I
cannot get to a login prompt. What switches or other options will allow
me to execute the program, to run in the background, without hindering
my ability to login?

Thanx,
Orlan Franks

------------------------------

From: wu jiannan <tw5...@vub.ac.be>
Subject: NE2000 card problem
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 18:33:52 +0200
Reply-To: tw5...@vub.ac.be

I have two Linux machines installed with NE2000 comaptable cards. The
problem is exactly the same on each computer:
The card can be detected correctly at boot time;
The ifconfig runs smoothly, no error message;
The ne2k test program also runs perfect with the following output:
Checking the ethercard at 0x300. Register 0x0d (0x30d) is ff
Passed initial NE2000 probe, value 00.
8390 registers: 0a 38 40 7f 13 00 00 00 01 00 00 01 42 00 00 00
SA PROM 0: 00 00 80 80 29 29 e8 e8 cc cc 6c 6c 00 00 00 00
SA PROM 0x10: 00 00 06 06 0d 0d 01 01 dd dd 02 02 57 57 57 57
NE2000 found at 0x300, using start page 0x40 and end page 0x80.
The netstat -i output is following after I ping the other machine:
Kernel Interface table
Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR
Flags
lo 3584 0 25 0 0 0 25 0 0 0
BLRU
eth0 1500 0 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 0
BRU

Does this necessarily mean the cards are OK?
I don't think the cable connection is the problem, because if I
disconnect the cable, the TX-OK number will not increase after I pinged
the other machine.

The IP address I asigned to them are arbitrary, one is 125.0.0.1 and the
other is 125.0.0.2.
The arp -a output is : 00:00:00:00, so actually the card is not probed
by each other.
I even tried to install Netware Lite under dos, the two machines also
don't communicate.
If this is certainly the problem of the card, I would buy new one. I'm
just not sure.

------------------------------

From: vide...@mindspring.com (Mark Rivers)
Subject: RedHat Linux NFS and PCNFSD
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 17:59:54 GMT
Reply-To: vide...@mindspring.com

I'm having a problem with my network, which is composed of several
Windows 95 machines, a few Windows NT 4.0 Workstations and a Linux
server running RedHat Linux 4.2. The Linux server is running the NFS
daemons, mountd and nfsd and the Windows machines are running NFS
client software from FTP Software.

The Windows machines can see the exported directories on the Linux
server, but when I go to open the directories, I get an error message
that PCNFSD is not running on the Linux server. Now, I can connect to
the NFS server using the userID 'nobody' but I need to log in with
real usernames and passwords.

Now, our Linux server had been running Slackware Linux, which included
the PCNFSD daemon, but RedHat apparently does not include it. Does
anyone know where I can get it? How about source code? I would be
happy to recompile it. RedHat says they are looking into the matter,
but their response has been slow and I need our NFS server up ASAP.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Mike Boling
mbo...@videotechnics.com

------------------------------

From: Mike Debreceni <mar...@pathcom.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: D-Link DE500 VL Bus Ethernet card - kernel does not find card
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 00:19:31 -0400
Reply-To: mar...@pathcom.com

Has anybody seen or heard of the D-Link DE500 ethernet card? Have you
got it running under Linux?

I've got a VL-Bus version of this card, and have been trying to get it
going under Linux. (Slackware 3.2, kernel 2.0.29).

The card is manufactured by D-Link, and is labelled as a 'DE-500CAT
Rev-A3' The chipset on the card is the Intel 82596 (KU82596CA-33). I
do not have any manuals for the jumper settings, however, the DOS
drivers supplied with the card report that the card is using IRQ5, I/O
300H and a memory address of D0000h.

Basically, the kernel does not detect the card, even after recompiling
the kernel with support for every reasonable work-alike I could think
of. These included:
- The DE425/500 series (even though they are based on the DEC 21040
chip).
- The Intel EtherExpress Pro (based on the 82596 chip)
- The Intel EtherExpress 16 (based on the 82586 chip?)

I also added support for the NE2000 and DE200 cards, since I have both
of these cards available for use.

After compiling in support, the card was not detected. Adding
'ether=0,0,eth0' didn't help. Neither did 'ether=5,300,eth0'. Only
when I swapped out the DE500 and inserted the DE200 did the kernel
detect and initialize the card as eth0.

Is there Linux support for my ethernet card?

If it's impossible to get the DE500 going under Linux, it won't kill me,
because I didn't lay out a fortune for it.

Thanks for any help

- Mike Debreceni
mar...@pathcom.com
deb...@muss.cis.mcmaster.ca

------------------------------

From: kbr...@missions4him.com (Kenton Brown)
Subject: Re: ppp-> NT server with dialback
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 18:04:49 GMT

On Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:24:01 GMT, Bob Smart <bsm...@tti.com> wrote:

Do we need the deslib to do DES encryption with this? The
README.MSCHAP80 mentions it. I downloaded it but there
is no dep file so I can not run make dep with it. It will not
compile. It cant find the linux/xxxxx.h files nor the asm/xxxxxx.h
files.

Any suggestion or maybe I dont even need the deslib

Thanks,

Kenton

------------------------------

From: kbr...@missions4him.com (Kenton Brown)
Subject: MSCHAP
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 18:06:28 GMT

Is the deslib for DES encryption required to use the MSCHAP? The
README mentions it but I cant get it to compile.
It can't find the linux/xxxxxx.h nor the adm/xxxxxx.h files.

Any suggestions or maybe I dont even need the deslib.

Thanks,

Kenton

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From: san...@muon.rutgers.edu (Dr. Bunsen Honeydew)
Subject: amd maps over nis
Date: 30 Jul 1997 17:20:23 -0400

I'm trying to set up amd on various machines on the network, and I can't
seem to get it to read the nis maps.

For example, to do the /net directory, I can do
amd /net /etc/a_net

and read it from a file, but I can't get it from nis, either by specifying
as just a_ws or yp.a_ws, etc.

I added the map to our nys server, and ypcat can see it, e.g.:

[sanbeg@superball]$ ypcat -k a_net
/defaults fs:=${autodir}/${rhost}/root/${rfs};type:=host
* rhost:=${key};opts:=rw,nosuid,nogrpid,nodev

I'm not sure if I'm just not doing the command line right, or it's something
else in the setup.

Here are the version info on two of the binaries:

[sanbeg@superball]$ /usr/sbin/amd -v
Copyright (c) 1990 Jan-Simon Pendry
Copyright (c) 1990 Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine
Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
Unofficial patch level 102.
amd 5.2.2.2 of 1992/05/31 16:53:21 bsd44-beta #0: Wed Apr 9 18:55:53 EDT
1997
Built by e...@homer.redhat.com for a sparc running linux version 2.0.29
(big-endian).
Map support for: root, passwd, union, nis, file, error.
FS: ufs, nfs, nfsx, host, link, linkx, program, union, auto, direct,
toplvl, error.
Primary network: primnetname="199.171.7.0" (primnetnum=199.171.7).
Subsidiary network: subsnetname="199.171.7.0" (subsnetnum=199.171.7).

1:niflheim:cf>/sbin/amd -v
Copyright (c) 1990 Jan-Simon Pendry
Copyright (c) 1990 Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine
Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
Unofficial patch level 102.
amd 5.2.2.2 of 1992/05/31 16:53:21 bsd44-beta #0: Thu Jul 24 16:03:46 EDT
1997
Built by san...@niflheim.dset.com for a sun4 running sos5 version 5.5.1
(big-endian).
Map support for: root, passwd, union, nis, file, error.
FS: ufs, nfs, nfsx, host, link, linkx, lofs, hsfs, pcfs, program,
union, auto, direct, toplvl, error.
Primary network: primnetname="199.171.7.0" (primnetnum=199.171.7).
No Subsidiary network.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

------------------------------

From: j...@shell.flinet.com (Julian Stout)
Subject: serial setup problem
Date: 30 Jul 1997 23:49:19 GMT

Hello,

I have a problem with pppd the error message was not eight bits clean in the message file. I looked it up and it states that the data bit is not set to 8 and the stop bit is not set to 1 and no parity. My question is how do i change all that info to be 8-N-1. Any help would be great

thanks
julian
j...@flinet.com

------------------------------

From: prob...@clark.net (Paul D. Robertson)
Crossposted-To: comp.security.firewalls
Subject: Re: TIS Proxy Firewall - httpd
Date: 2 Aug 1997 15:30:11 GMT

Fredrik Lautrup (d9...@efd.lth.se) is rumored to have uttered :
: I had this problem too on my firewall. I think the solution was to allow
: more http-gw processes to start. When you look att web pages with alot of
: pictures you start up alot of http-gw. When the limit for this service is
: reached it rejects all connections. I think that there is a field in the
: inetd.conf that you can specify the maximum number of processes. The
: default is pretty smal 20-30?? I have mine to 200.

That's maximum number of processes spawned per minute. On Linux, the
default is 40. Please note that the maximum number of processes is still
controlled by the size of the process table and the normal kernel
limitations.

Paul
=============================================================================
Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions
prob...@clark.net which may have no basis whatsoever in fact."
PSB#9280

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From: "Bruno Prior" <br...@prior.ftech.co.uk>
Subject: 3Com 3c589 troubles - Help!
Date: 2 Aug 1997 02:48:12 GMT

I am trying to network my computers. I have a 3Com 3c589 PCMCIA card for my
laptop (Olivetti Echos Pro 133S, 32 Mb RAM, 2Gb hard disk). I have
downloaded the driver and README. The README says to apply an appended
patch to the kernel source. I have taken this section of the README
(beginning with the line "---config.in~" etc.) and stuck it in a file
called patch.3c589 in the /usr/src directory. I have tried to patch the
kernel source with this file using "patch -p0 <patch.3c589" (while in the
/usr/src directory), but it's not working. I get a message "Hmm... Looks
like a unified diff to me... The text leading up to this was:..." etc. and
then it asks which "File to patch:". The text leading up to the first
section refers to config.in, so I've tried giving it that file
(linux/arch/i386/config.in), but the patch fails. I get a similar message
twice more. The next one refers to drivers/net/Space.c, and it succesfully
patches that file, but the last one refers to drivers/net/Makefile, and
patching that file fails as well. I am running Red Hat 4.1, kernel version
2.0.27. What am I doing wrong?

Also, the README says to edit the 3c589.c driver to remove the hardwired
BNC port selection. I think I've found the line in question, but what
should I put instead of "BNC"? Just a "*", or nothing at all?

Cheers,

Bruno Prior br...@prior.ftech.co.uk

------------------------------

From: Jennifer Evans <pt...@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Setting up Linux as a Print Server (How?)
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 17:14:47 GMT

Hello All-

I'm running version 2.0 of Slackware 96 LINUX in a production environment as a BOOTP server.
I'd like to make it into a Print Server as well.

What steps do I need to take to make this happen? (I am familiar with networking, subnet
masks, etc, so the answer can be fairly technical). Thanks!!

Jennifer Evans

jennife...@lamrc.com
pt...@ix.netcom.com

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gr...@university-health-sys.com>
Subject: Re: Token Ring and IPX
Date: 1 Aug 1997 02:35:01 GMT

Joe Rizzo <jri...@origin.ea.com> wrote:

| To test IPX between the linux box and a win95 machine on the token ring
| side, I installed mars nwe. I can see the linux box as a novell server
| on the ethernet side, but not the token ring side.

[snip]

| I realize that this is probably confusing and I don't know what I am
| doing.
| Is IPX supported on token ring under linux?
| Can I use 802.2 on token ring?

I am currently using IPX on Token Ring. I can use 'slist' and 'ncpmount'
successfully. However, I have never been able to get mars_nwe to work. yes,
token ring will run as 802.2TR

--gilbert
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Gilbert Ramirez Jr. gr...@merece.uthscsa.edu
University of Texas http://merece.uthscsa.edu/gram/
Health Science Center at San Antonio University Health System

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From: "Jules" <mind...@cableinet.co.uk>
Subject: Local Webserver
Date: 2 Aug 97 15:54:22 GMT

Can anyone point me in the right direction in my quest to setup a local
webserver.

I'm trying to setup a mirror image of my ISPs server so I can develop to a
budget.

I want to find where I have to put the symbolic like for HTML pages and if
its possible to access the true Internet address through X windows on the
same PC?

Jules.

------------------------------

From: cbbr...@news.brownes.org (Christopher B. Browne)

Subject: Re: Linux <-> MS Mail Interaction???
Date: 27 Jul 1997 02:04:15 GMT
Reply-To: cbbr...@hex.net

On 23 Jul 1997 00:33:59 GMT, Ian Alexander <ija...@omega.uta.edu> posted:
|I want to use Linux at work, but the company uses MS Mail for their
|internal email (running over a Novell 3.12 server). Most of the
|machines are running Win95, but some are still 3.1 (if that makes a
|diff). Thanks again for the help!!!

1) Depending on how ancient the version of MS-Mail, you might be able
to run a DOS-based client under DOSEMU that would *probably* work.

This is unlikely to work.

2) If the company has installed an Internet gateway, you could bounce
mail in and out to people in the network.

This doesn't let you access *your* MS-Mail mailbox from Linux.

There are no additional solutions.

Obligatory additional Microsoft-slam:

I heard from a friend yesterday that Microsoft Exchange went off and
corrupted his company's mail database. Gloriously wonderful
situation. (NOT!)

The standard MS-solution to pretty much any problem is that you have
to "re-install." In this case, this involved nuking all mail archives
for all users, which blew out 6 months worth of corporate records.

They had backups, which of course were all corrupted by the problem
that caused the need to reinitialize the system.

They had of course made the stupendously idiotic decision of actually
considering that mail was a useful thing, and were archiving important
information in the email archives.

I can see upcoming in the future some bug in SQL Server corrupting
databases, and Microsoft of course telling companies that they have to
basically throw away their financial information for the last 4
years... The only reason why this may *not* happen is that Microsoft
didn't actually write the software; it was originally written by
Sybase.

"Caveat Emptor" takes on a far stronger meaning...

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From: Tom <rdo...@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: ppp connected but cant communicate
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 11:51:58 -0600

Greetings:

I am trying to do a ppp connection from my linux box through a Shiva
LanRover to a solaris system.

I found out that the net I am trying to connect to does not use dynamic
address assignment. So, I got an ip address from them and have the
following:

192.168.15.50 192.168.15.48 192.168.14.2
bluefin shiva_one barney
(my linux box) (LanRover T/S) (Solaris box)

I am connecting via ppp as follows:
/usr/sbin/pppd debug name "Tom Dorgan" -d 192.168.15.50:192.168.14.2 \
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -t 45 -v -f
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-LanR
over" \
/dev/modem 115200 netmask 255.255.255.0 modem defaultroute crtscts

I am getting (and staying...I see the EchoReq & EchoReps flowing)
connected. However, I cannot ping the Solaris box or the terminal
server.

when I am connected I see the following (only the loopback is present
when I am not connected):
$ /sbin/route

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface

barney * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 1
ppp0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 2
lo
default barney 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
ppp0

$ /sbin/ifconfig

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0

UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

ppp0 Link encap:Point-Point Protocol
inet addr:192.168.15.50 P-t-P:192.168.14.2
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1522 Metric:1
RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

the only weird thing I see during the connect is the following:
Aug 2 10:12:51 localhost pppd[672]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
->Aug 2 10:12:53 localhost pppd[672]: Unknown protocol (0x8029)
received

->Aug 2 10:12:53 localhost pppd[672]: Unknown protocol (0x802b)
received
->Aug 2 10:12:53 localhost pppd[672]: Unknown protocol (0x803f)
received
->Aug 2 10:12:53 localhost pppd[672]: Unknown protocol (0xcf) received
Aug 2 10:12:54 localhost pppd[672]: local IP address 192.168.15.50
Aug 2 10:12:54 localhost pppd[672]: remote IP address 192.168.14.2

Please help me, Im just a stupid programmer who doesnt know what to
do next.

TIA,
tom dorgan.

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From: "William R. Mattil" <wrma...@ix.netcom.com>

Subject: Re: alarm on modem init
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 13:05:09 -0500

Steve Weiland wrote:
|
| I would appreciate any help with the following problem. I am attempting
| to dial my isp with a usr internal modem. I have a dual boot system
| NT/linux. The modem works fine w/ NT. I have tried numerous init strings
| with chat and dip. I receive an alarm instead of 'OK' from the modem.
|
| Thanks
|
| Steve

The fact that the modem works under NT is of no value here except to
point out that under Plug&prey it works and under a real OS it doesn't.
Soooooo then why don't you take a real look at your hardware. Maybe
linux thinks its at someother IRQ/address ?? maybe its a winmodem ?? My
bet ???? I'll just bet that you have the modem set up for comm3/comm4.
The fact is that with computers you don't get something for nothing, so
if you have two serial ports and an internal modem there is a distinct
possiblity of conflict. Remove one serial port. Reoption the modem as
com1 or com2 with the appropriate addr and irq and your chances of
success increase markedly. Take look at the boot up messages. Gee, are
there any errors ??? what does linux think the modem is at ????

<SOAPBOX>
Listen people, linux, and other unicies, are very harware dependent. A
successful installation, configuration requires that you have a least a
clue as what hardware you have, and how is configured. As linux matures
it gets better and better at dealing with "different" hardware but it
still requires those on the bleeding edge to have a supply of bandages
around :^). Linux is not Windows (Thank God), its an OS for power users.
And as a power user you should know your hardware. The more intimatly
the better.
</SOAPBOX>

Hope this helps, if not... post the results of dmesg, and your modem
config. And what other serial hardware is present.

Bill
--
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wrma...@ix.netcom.com | Ginger had to do it all backwards
(972) 256-3219 ........| and in high heels

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From: Gerard Oberle <gob...@erols.com>
Subject: Re: PPP-GO script
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 14:21:14 -0400

| Jelle Kalf.wrote

| Hello,

I don't know what the PPP-GO script is. Are you talking about a shell
script to log in to the internet through an ISP using pppd? If so, post

a response, or send mail, and I'll send you a couple.

Regards,
Jerry Oberle

Mail Delivery Subsystem

unread,

Aug 12, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/12/97

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Subject: Linux-Networking Digest #343

Linux-Networking Digest #343, Volume #6 Thu, 7 Aug 97 06:14:56 EDT

Contents:
Non-root connection with ppp-on? Help! (Cliff Kirkham)
HELP, can't login to local ftp (Joel Becker)
AFS and Linux (Diana Dill)
Re: PPP probelms, or is it my modem? (Adam C. Lewis)
Re: MarsNWE (Pat Thoyts)
HELP for Masquerade ("Wai Lap, Lo")
Re: Why is my PPP so slow?!? (Nathan Gilbert)
Re: Cable Modem Help? (Mike Frisch)
(Updated) POP3 fetching from one to multiple accounts (Help needed!!!) (sh...@extel.baltnet.ru)
Re: RedHat 4.2, SMC Ultra + network = Doesn't work? (Matthew Schnierle)
lpd TCP port number (Kenneth Tan)
Re: lpr error - file too big (Ralf G. R. Bergs)
Re: !!!!!!@@@### HELP ###@@@!!!!!!! ("Michael A. Potter")
Re: HELP for Masquerade ("Wai Lap, Lo")
Re: @Home Network and Linux Networking (and Cable Modems, too!) (David N Murray)
Re: minicom disconnects me after being connected a few seconds. (Jeffrey Day)
Re: Non-root connection with ppp-on? Help! (Peter Dean)
Re: Netscape Problems (Ramiro Estrugo)
fetchmail SMTP error (Lance Levsen)

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From: cli...@primenet.com (Cliff Kirkham)
Subject: Non-root connection with ppp-on? Help!
Date: 6 Aug 1997 20:18:00 -0700
Reply-To: cli...@primenet.com

What am I doing wrong?

I have been connecting to my ISP with PPP chat scripts (ppp-on) while
logged in as root, but I cannot connect while logged is as a user
other than root.

I'm using Redhat 4.2 on a stand alone machine and the following files
with these permissions.
-rwsr-xr-x /usr/sbin/pppd
-rwxr-xr-x /etc/ppp/options
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/sbin/ppp-on
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/sbin/ppp-on-dialer
-r-xr-xr-x /usr/sbin/ppp-off

var/log/messages gives this statement
pppd[1111] : connect script failed

I don't think it ever gets to the ppp-on-dialer script
Let me emphasize that these scripts work when I'm logged on as root.
And I don't think its a problem with path since I invoke these scripts
with the full path name, ie; /usr/sbin/ppp-on.

BTW, I assigned permission -rwsr-xr-x to /user/sbin/pppd as the Howto
instructed. The Howto stated that the s permission allowed a user to
have root permission when invoking pppd. I don't understand this.
Isn't it sufficient to have x permission?

I'd be grateful for any help. Also, can you direct me to internet
sources or books that would provide more detailed explaination than
the Howto's. I don't feel that I really understand what's happening
with ppp connections.

------------------------------

From: Joel Becker <jl...@ocala.cs.miami.edu>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 97 20:24:02 -0400
Subject: HELP, can't login to local ftp

I was wondering if someone could help me out. I cannot ftp to my box
using any other id than anonymous. Any registerd user is rejected with an
access denied message. I don't get the chance to enter a password, so
it's not a password error:

(vertsmile ftp server) Date blah...blah...blah...
vertsmile login(jlbecker):jlbecker
xxx error user jlbecker access denied
ftp>

ftpusers has the normal root, uucp, and news, nothing more. ftpaccess
looks kosher. This happens with ALL usernames. Every name can login with
telnet or on the console fine. But they cannot login on ftp. Not even
from the same box (ie ftp localhost). I am running wu-ftpd from a plain
vanilla Slackware release. I've since updated my kernel (got 1.2.13, now
have 2.0.22), but I haven't seen any problems with wu-ftpd. I have never
touched the ftp config files. It used to work (approx six months ago was
the last time I ftp'd into my own box). Now it doesn't.

If anyone has a clue, or has seen this problem before, I'd much appreciate
the help

Thanks

Joel

------------------------------

From: Diana Dill <bon...@pitt.edu>
Subject: AFS and Linux
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 23:21:15 -0700

Hello all!

Does anyone have information on AFS authentication with Linux? Please
reply to me directly.
Thanks alot!

Diana Dill
bon...@pitt.edu

------------------------------

From: lew...@charlie.iit.edu (Adam C. Lewis)
Subject: Re: PPP probelms, or is it my modem?
Date: 7 Aug 1997 00:58:48 GMT

In article <5rifbn$m...@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net>, l...@mail.msen.com says...
|
|A problem with the modem crawling at near zero speed can be caused
|by having two serial devices sharing the same IRQ. Check to make
|sure that you are using the correct IRQ for your modem, and that
|no other device is also using the same IRQ.
|

I'm having the same problem. How/Where do you check the IRQs?

------------------------------

From: Pat Thoyts <Pat.T...@anti-spam.bbsrc.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: MarsNWE
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 11:01:13 +0100

Andreas Schuldei wrote:
|
| Hi,
|
| we have a problem installing mars.
|
| We have a novell server (3.14) and IPX is no problem, also TCP/IP is OK.
| Now we have tried to install a second Novellserver with MarsNWE. We can
| contact the original server, but when we activate nwserv, we only see
| the loopbackdevice but not the first server and we are not able to reach
| the second one from outside.
| Marsnwe(0.98)pl10
|

Need to see you /proc/net/ipx* files and the putput of ifconfig, lsmod
and uname -r. Then we'll want to see sections 3 and 4 of your
/etc/nwserv.conf file. Try grep "^[ \t]*[34][ \t]" /etc/nwserv.conf

If you cat /proc/net/ipx_interface you should get something like this:

pat@pc0652:~% cat /proc/net/ipx_interface
Network Node_Address Primary Device Frame_Type
959B0A8C 000000000001 Yes Internal None
00000101 00A0246C1304 No eth0 802.2
00080101 00A0246C1304 No eth0 802.3

The internal network is essential for mars_nwe and the two other
networks here allow our other hosts to talk to us. To set these up we
have the following configuration:

pat@pc0652:~% grep "^[ \t]*[34][ \t]" /etc/nwserv.conf
3 959B0A8C 1 # this is what auto USED to produce!
4 0x00000101 eth0 802.2 1
4 0x00080101 eth0 802.3 1
4 0x0 * AUTO 1 # automatic setup of others

You should be aware that you do not need the kernel option for full
internal IPX networking. The internal network listed here is independant
of that.
--
Pat Thoyts Remove anti-spam from address to reply.
Tel: +44-(0)-1275-549414 http://pc0652.lars.bbsrc.ac.uk/~pat/home.shtml

------------------------------

From: "Wai Lap, Lo" <wai...@cs.mun.ca>
Subject: HELP for Masquerade
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 01:00:44 -0230

Hi I have a two computer network with 2 ne2000 card that share a modem
with Masquerade. After I reinstalled the linux for the computer that
with the modem. The other one that without the modem just cannot receive
data anymore. However it can only telnet to the outside the world or
transfer data between each other but once I use the ftp or the netscape
to receive data it just stop there. Have anyone have any idea what is
going on??? Both computer using redhat 4.2. THanks a lot.

------------------------------

From: Nathan Gilbert <nat...@scs.ndcrt.org>
Subject: Re: Why is my PPP so slow?!?
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 22:35:46 -0700

DangerBoy wrote:
|
| I use minicom to get my ISP's PPP to start. Then I exit w/o
| resetting and start my pppd. I am dynamically assinged a IP so pppd lines is:
|
| pppd modem crtscts defaultroute 0.0.0.0:0.0.0.0 /dev/modem 115200
|
| It all connects, but it is incredably slow! I check its status with
| ifonfig and I notice that I am sending a lot more packages than I am
| receiving which leads me to believe that I have lots of errors that my
| machine is trying to correct. If you guys/girls can think of anything I
| could do to get a better/faster connection would really help.
| -Thanks,
| Lucas
Speed is dependant on a couple of different items:
1) modem, I have found that USR's are probably the best modems out
there. There are those that disagree and that's fine, but I have just
observed that they perform better than any other modem I have had.

2) you might try using a chat script instead of minicom. This will
automate the process and make life easier.

3) what are your ppp options setup for? try setting your mtu and mru to
500

4) what is your memory status? you can check this with 'cat
/proc/sys/vm/freepages' read the file
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/memory-tuning.txt

5) what kind of machine are you running this on? If you have a slow
machine don't expect a fast modem to make up for it.

Hope this helps.

Nathan %-)

------------------------------

From: mfr...@saturn.tlug.org (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: Cable Modem Help?
Date: 7 Aug 1997 00:37:52 GMT

On Wed, 06 Aug 1997 13:01:50 -0400, Sandeep Jyoti
<san...@viper.tor.servtech.com> wrote:

| I am relatively new to Linux and need help setting up a cable
|modem. First of all, if anyone has been able to successfully install a
|cable modem from Rogers Wave, Toronto, Canada, on their Linux box, i
|would love to hear about it.

Have you even tried? There's no trick to it... Also, try
"rogerswave.general" on the Rogers news server... We're pretty active
there.

|Firstly just install the cable modem under Linux so that it works.

Using the "numbers" given to you by Rogers, configure your Linux
distribution. It's basic TCP/IP.

|second , i want to create a mini isp so that someone can log into the
|machine and get a ppp connection (btw the cable modem comes with 1
|static address for now, which the company plans on making dynamic in the
|future)

Rogers will just love you for this.

|It seems to me that there is a real need for a Linux Cable Modem HOW-TO
|If anyone has plans to write one, or has already done so, i would love
|to hear about it.

There are now several... mine is at
http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch/rogers/

Mike.

--
======================================================================
Mike Frisch Email: mfr...@saturn.tlug.org
Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 02:21:24 -0600
From: sh...@extel.baltnet.ru
Subject: (Updated) POP3 fetching from one to multiple accounts (Help needed!!!)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Reply-To: sh...@extel.baltnet.ru

We have one corporate mailbox on ISP side and dial-on-demand link to him.
Our ISP has managed its mail system to forward all our incoming mail to
this mailbox. I'd like to fetch that mail and to distribute it to my local
accounts in according with recipient name(<username>@<domain-name>)field
in letter header. I'm tring to use fetchmail. Below is part of fetched
letter header:

Received: from ns.baltnet.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by saigon.extel.baltnet.ru (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA01404
for <root>; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:58:58 -0200
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:58:58 -0200
From: Bingo...@BingoZone.Com
Message-Id: <1997080612...@saigon.extel.baltnet.ru>
Status: R

>From Bi...@BingoZone.Com Wed Aug 6 10:14:09 1997
Return-Path: Bi...@BingoZone.Com
Received: from Bingo ([198.69.139.54]) by ns.baltnet.ru (8.8.4/8.7.3)
with
SMTP id KAA03400 for <mi...@extel.baltnet.ru>; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:14:09
+0400
Received: by Bingo (950413.SGI.8.6.12/940406.SGI)
id DAA19998; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 03:14:05 -0400
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 03:14:05 -0400
Message-Id: <199708060714.DAA19998@Bingo>
To: mi...@extel.baltnet.ru
From: Bingo...@BingoZone.Com

Could somebody explain to me, why fetchmail delivers all incoming letter
to <root>, but not to account, which set in To: field. Well, it's not
correct to use To: field, becouse there may be several addresses there.
May be it will be more correct to use recipient address from last (most
upper) field From: in a letter, which has the next format:

From: received by ... from ... for ...recipient-address... ?

Is it possible to manage this problem with fetchmail or some another
POP3-client?

Very, very thanx in advance!!!

======================= Posted via Deja News ===========================
http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet

------------------------------

From: new-addre...@netaxs.com (Matthew Schnierle)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RedHat 4.2, SMC Ultra + network = Doesn't work?
Date: 25 Jul 1997 03:07:32 GMT

In article <33D6F5...@lpt.fi>, Mikko Wright <mikko....@lpt.fi> wrote:
|Hello,
|
|My SMC Elite 16 Ultra Combo 8216C doesn't like to work. Every time I try
|to ping anywhere else than my own IP I get the message "Network is
|unreachable". Thus this works with almost original kernel, which
|doesn't have support for example for ISDN-card or IP-masquerade
|included.
|
|My NIC and network connections are OK, because they work with another
|"OS". IP-addresses are also the same.
|
|Can I configure IRQ and I/O address for my NIC somewhere else than
|parameters in LILO? I'm asking this because of huge amount of error
|messages like "Unresolved symbols in module xxxx" when booting.
|After those comes "eth0 initialization delayed".

Hmm, are you compiling as a module and passing the parameters at boot?

If so, you might just try compiling ultra support into a new kernel and
seeing if it can sucessfully probe the card (during config, say Y to ultra
support instead of M)

[snip]

--
-Matthew Schnierle
-pyld at netaxs dot com

------------------------------

From: ken...@bbs.sas.ntu.ac.sg (Kenneth Tan)
Subject: lpd TCP port number
Date: 7 Aug 1997 02:32:13 GMT

Hi, All,

Is there a way to specify/control the OUTGOING TCP port number that lpd uses?

This may involve modifying lpd.c/printjob.c, and is specific to my setup.

Situation:
My Linux machine is behind a firewall. They use packet filtering
to block access to ports < 1024.
I am trying to print outside the firewall, standard port 515.
lpd opens the connection using TCP ports 1023->515, and 1022->515,
any backward traffic 1022<-515, 1023<-515 gets chopped by the
firewall, and the linux box does not receive any acknowledgement
(i.e., printer service down).

I'm looking for a way to ensure that the TCP source port is > 1024.
Any help please??

Automan

------------------------------

From: ra...@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Ralf G. R. Bergs)
Subject: Re: lpr error - file too big
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 08:16:44 GMT
Reply-To: ra...@RWTH-Aachen.DE

On 31 Jul 1997 04:03:21 GMT, mur...@ecom5.ecn.bgu.edu (Russell Eugene
Glaue) wrote:

|Hey does anyone know a way around the lpr error that states "copy file is
|too large"? I would really like to print this postscript file I have that
|is about 1.5 megs in size.

Easy. You have to change/add the "mx" directive in your /etc/printcap
file. See "man printcap" for details.

HTH,

Ralf

------------------------------

From: "Michael A. Potter" <ro...@207.91.67.200>
Subject: Re: !!!!!!@@@### HELP ###@@@!!!!!!!
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 06:54:08 -0400
Reply-To: ro...@207.91.67.200

Azunna Anyanwu wrote:

I know you intent is good, and your right you should use a reserverd IP
subnet set aside by internic.My choice was that of random choice.
Besides, what does it matter behind a Proxy Server.

Thanxs,

Mike

------------------------------

From: "Wai Lap, Lo" <wai...@cs.mun.ca>
Subject: Re: HELP for Masquerade
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 01:30:43 -0230

Wai Lap, Lo wrote:
|
| Hi I have a two computer network with 2 ne2000 card that share a modem
| with Masquerade. After I reinstalled the linux for the computer that
| with the modem. The other one that without the modem just cannot receive
| data anymore. However it can only telnet to the outside the world or
| transfer data between my local network but once I use the ftp or the netscape
| to receive data it just stop there. Have anyone have any idea what is
| going on??? Both computer using redhat 4.2. THanks a lot.

I got some more details and it is that I config both win95 and redhat on
the computer that without the modem. Both have the same problem. Would
there be something wrong with the ne2000 cards or the cable??? But I can
use ping without any pronlem with my local network. Thanks a lot.

------------------------------

From: David N Murray <d...@local.network>
Subject: Re: @Home Network and Linux Networking (and Cable Modems, too!)
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 00:50:34 -0400

Joe,

I am doing exactly what you want to do (with RedHat 4.2, and @Home).
I'm trying to translate the ifup scripts from redhat into the previous
commands you posted:

DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=24.3.96.53
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=24.3.96.0
BROADCAST=24.3.96.255
ONBOOT=yes

ifconfig ${DEVICE} ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route -add -net ${NETWORK} netmask {$NETMASK} ${DEVICE}
route -add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1 ${DEVICE}

DEVICE=eth1
IPADDR=192.168.1.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
ONBOOT=yes
ifconfig ${DEVICE} ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route -add -net ${NETWORK} netmask {$NETMASK} ${DEVICE}

which results in:

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1

RX packets:1089 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:1089 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

(to @Home)
eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 02:60:8C:A0:B0:3D
inet addr:24.3.96.53 Bcast:24.3.96.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:24468 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:18614 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x330 Memory:cc000-ce000

(to the local network)
eth1 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:A8:34:72:02
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:11147 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:13553 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x300

and, `route' yields:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface

24.3.96.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 16 eth0
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 13 eth1
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 14 lo
default cr1-hfc1.wlgrv1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 166 eth0

and everything works fine.
I also have masquerading compiled in, along with the ipfwadm commands
necessary to connect the local network to the internet (I find that my
win95 machine runs netscape a little more reliably than the Linux
version, but I swear, that's all I use it for! Honest! ;-)

I never bothered with dhcp, because they told me that my IP address is
static. I am registered as having a win95 box (which @Home/Comcast
installed into), but I'm wondering if I should change the registration to
a Mac since there is no DHCP support (I think) and it then _has_ to be
static.

Good Luck!

Dave
dmu...@home.com

========================
On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Joe Brooks wrote:

| >
| > >lo Link encap:Local Loopback
| > > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
| > > UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1

| > Mask:255.255.255.0
| > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
| > > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

| > > TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
| > > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
| >
| > > [...]
|
|
|
|
|

------------------------------

From: jd...@fcg.net (Jeffrey Day)
Subject: Re: minicom disconnects me after being connected a few seconds.
Date: 29 Jul 1997 02:28:06 GMT

~~ (a6...@hotmail.com) wrote:
: hi, im using redhat 4.1 and im trying to connect to my isp with
: minicom, so far i get it to connect and it asks me my login and password
: and stuff., and it logs me in. Then i think I finally got it working and
: it disconnects me! I read somewhere i'm supposed to take ppp control
: away from minicom or something or other. im confused, what should i do!?
: thanks.

After you finish entering your username and password you'll see a bunch of
random looking characters appearing on your screen... Anyway, after you
enter your password, hit ^A-z then Q. This will exit minicom without
resetting the modem so the connection will still be there.

At your root command prompt (unless you gave your regular account access to
pppd...you aren't logged in as root all the time are you?) you'll need to
start pppd using a command similar to:

pppd /dev/cua2 115200 crtscts defaultroute

substitute the 2 in cua2 (which indicates port 3) for that corresponding
to your modem.

If pppd engages without any errors you'll now be on an active ppp connection
to your account.....Congrats!

Hope this helps.

Jeff Day

------------------------------

From: pe...@ajax.pd.net (Peter Dean)
Subject: Re: Non-root connection with ppp-on? Help!
Date: 7 Aug 1997 15:20:44 +1000
Reply-To: P.D...@mailbox.uq.edu.au

Cliff Kirkham (cli...@primenet.com) wrote:
| What am I doing wrong?

| I have been connecting to my ISP with PPP chat scripts (ppp-on) while
| logged in as root, but I cannot connect while logged is as a user
| other than root.

Someone will answer this with a some hack of your permissions that will
make it work. With a great big security problem. The correct way is to
use the tool that the nice people at redhat provided - netcfg. The
version that comes with 4.2 has check box to allow ordinary users to
connect. What this does is set a variable USERCTL=yes in ifcfg-ppp0.
Then your ppp-on will look like this -
#!/bin/sh
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup \
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0

and your ppp-off will kook like this -
#!/bin/sh
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown \
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0

Analyse this and learn what is going on. It is very elegant.
Check out
http://www.interweft.com.au/other/rhtips/ppp/ppp-tip.html
6. Using the Red Hat 4 Network Configuration tool (netcfg)
for a blow by blow description, but use my scripts above - his are
wrong^H^H^H^H^H out of date :-)

------------------------------

From: Ramiro Estrugo <rest...@rem.fateware.com>
Subject: Re: Netscape Problems
Date: 07 Aug 1997 02:31:02 -0700

Netscape 4.02 (now in beta7 for linux) has support for asynchronous dns
lookups. It uses a dns-helper process to do all the lookup and thus does not
block the event loop on the main process.

-re

wwa...@paradise.io.com (Will Wagner) writes:

| In article <33E791D5...@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
| Markus Juretzka <markus....@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
| >Hi folks!
| >I have a problem with my Netscape 3.0 under S.u.S.E. Linux kernel 2.0.29
| >using an analog modem.
| >Whenever I surf with more than one Netscape window, Netscape often
| >"hangs" in all windows, when it is looking for a new host. The windows
| >don't refresh, so I can "clean and smear" the windows with others. The
| >LEDs on the modem show, that the PPP-connection is still very active.
| >Sometimes it takes one minute until I can go on working. Under Win NT I
| >can have 4 connections enabled in Netscape, so that doesn't seem to be
| >the problem.
| >Does anyone have an idea to fix the problem?
|
| It'll do that even with just a single window open too. This appears
| to be a problem within the Netscrape code. My guess is that the
| designers used some sort of blocking read call to get nameservice data
| (this is when it always seems to happen to me), and it interrupts the
| event loop. The window redraw routines, among others, reside in the
| event loop, thus the nice clean-and-smear effect when the event loop
| gets interrupted; I find it kinda fun myself. :) I don't think you can
| change the nameservice timeout via X resources or the preferences
| file, so it doesn't look like much can be done about it, save grinning
| and bearing it. They might have fixed this in the evil new Netscrape
| 4.01, so that might be a solution.
|
| Will
| --
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------
| Will Wagner wwa...@io.com | "If this doesn't make sense, doesn't
| http://www.io.com/~wwagner/ | make it lies." -- Soundgarden
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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From: Lance Levsen <star...@dlcwest.com>
Subject: fetchmail SMTP error
Date: 07 Aug 1997 03:12:07 -0600

Does anyone know why I might be running into this problem?
Smail, fetchmail, and Exmh, with Debian 1.3. Fetchmail reports:

fetchmail: POP3< +OK louise POP3 Server (Version 1.004) ready.
fetchmail: POP3> USER stargazer
fetchmail: POP3< +OK please send PASS command
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 4 messages ready for stargazer in
/usr/spool/mail/stargazer
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 4 105828
fetchmail: 4 messages at star...@mail.dlcwest.com.
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK message 1 (47273 octets):
reading message 1 (47273 bytes)
fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3<
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.dlcwest.com
fetchmail: normal termination, status 9

I read the FAQ for fetchmail, and it says to test port 25, smtp, which
I can telnet into the host as well as my own system. I am at a loss as
I had it up and running on an older version of Deb. Anyone know where
I might be able to find a resource?

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Subject: Linux-Networking Digest #314

Linux-Networking Digest #314, Volume #6 Fri, 1 Aug 97 17:14:47 EDT

Contents:
Re: Linux Database Server (Andy Tompkins)
What do I need? (Hilko Bengen)
Re: manual ppp connections (Mark Kuebeler)
RPC between Linux and NT ("Timothy Gaastra")
Re: Amanda under Linux? (Steve Shah)
look at this (Chris Ebert)
Re: Secure linux shell and client (Jeff Daniels)
one minute to connect with telnet ! ("Prygiel P.M.")
Where to get Netscape for linux ? ("Prygiel P.M.")
PPP probelms, or is it my modem? (Donald Judd)
One minute to get telnet connection ("Prygiel P.M.")
Re: ppp-> NT server with dialback (Bob Smart)
Re: can't chat to my modem :-( ("Lee Mitchell")
Telnet /Connection refused from Win95 to Linux (Don Peruski)
linux ppp to NT RAS with dialback? (James_Kingdon)
I was wondering... (C. Patterson)
Re: S: Driver for "IBM Token-Ring Network 16/4 Adapter II" (Paul P. Norton)
Re: PPP and chat problem. (Mr. Vince)
Re: POP3d lock error (Mike Frisch)

ipfwadm and local net (Bernard M. Piller)

Re: C compiler (Perry Grieb)
Re: C compiler (A S Measures)

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From: Andy Tompkins <a...@netca.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux Database Server
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 20:57:53 -0400
Reply-To: a...@netca.com

Try MYSQL, www.tcx.se
Full featured free SQL database...
Nice c api, even has an X front end, jdbc support, and perl support.

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From: Hilko Bengen <hi...@ataraxia.mmbs.sax.de>
Subject: What do I need?
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:41:07 GMT

I want to give login accounts on a linux server to other people who
would be able to log in over an ethernet connection. The server box
will also act as a gateway to our ISP (using a dialup connection).

I want to be able to share costs appropriately, that means that
everyone only pays me back for the time he actually used the dialup
connection. I already have got an idea how to do this based on
machines (IP accounting, IP masquerading, and some scripts).

But normally others would still be able to log onto my machine and
start their big ftp jobs from there. Obviously, the result would be
that I pay for their minutes. I have two ides for a possible soluton
to this problem:

a) I find a way to log each user's networking activities, or

b) I deny or allow access to the ppp (or whatever) device to each
user.

Unfortunately, I neither know what kinds of software to use nor how to
use them.

Thanks in advance

Hilko

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From: nospam@see_sig_for_email.com (Mark Kuebeler)
Subject: Re: manual ppp connections
Date: 30 Jul 1997 11:30:57 GMT
Reply-To: nospam@see_sig_for_email.com

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997 23:41:23 -1000, Yasumatsu <mur...@hgea.org> wrote:
| One thing I noticed though, installing ppp from slackware,
|does not seem to have all the files for pppd 2.2. ppp-on -off do not exist,

Check in /usr/sbin. At least that's where Slackware 3.2 puts them.

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From: "Timothy Gaastra" <gaa...@cs.ucr.edu>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking
Subject: RPC between Linux and NT
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:33:46 -0700

Does anybody have any good advice about attempting to have a linux RPC
client talk to a NT RPC Server? We plan on rewriting our NIS password
gateway to use RPC and to also integrate NT account administration into our
existing Linux account management scripts and programs.

I understand first that we must get DCE type RPC calls running on Linux.
We're trying a package currently but having a bit of difficulty compiling it
do to the fact that it was composed/designed under an a.out type Linux
installation. If anybody has a better GNU/GPL free type package that would
be appreciated.

I want to hear from people who have actually tried this. People who have
succeeded might be nice too. Any special concerns to be noted would be
appreciated. For instance with the RpcServerUseProtseqEp call for the NT RPC
server, I noticed that it takes a security descriptor. Upon reading, I've
found that set to NULL it uses default security which I imagine will not
work well with a Linux client, but giving it a NULL DACL will give everyone
access. Is there a happy medium for this? After all, these RPC calls will be
used to modify accounts.

Any help would be appreciated. Email or post the replies.

Thanks.

--
Timothy Gaastra
Assistant Manager of Technical Operations
Department of Computer Science, UCR
gaa...@cs.ucr.edu

------------------------------

From: Steve Shah <ss...@cs.ucr.edu>
Subject: Re: Amanda under Linux?
Date: 30 Jul 1997 07:23:41 GMT

In comp.os.linux.networking Marcus Faure <fa...@voerde.globvill.de> wrote:
: has anyone compiled amanda cleanly? I tried to make amanda 2.3.0.4 run,
: but compilation breaks at common-src/infofile with a lot of errors
: about missing declarations.
: Infos about precompiled versions are welcome ;-)

You might want to try the "unoffical" release of Amanda 2.3.0.4
which has all the patches installed right and is in heavy use
at the site it was made at: ftp.cs.ucr.edu/pub/amanda/amanda-2.3.0.5.tar.gz

-Steve

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From: Chris Ebert <lue...@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: look at this
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 10:18:48 -0600

Some might call me skeptical but I will try this.

I was browsing through a newsgroup just like your are now and found a
post similar to this one. I thought "This has to be a scam" but I was
curious no the less. As I read on I began to get more interested. I
didn t know if this was legal so I checked with the US postal service
and they said it was fully legal! So now I m trying this. And I know
some people who have done this and made over $5,000.

THIS IS HOW YOU DO THIS
1. you get five envelopes, five stamps, five $1 bills, and five blank
pieces of paper.
2. You write "Please put me on your mailing list" on each of the five
pieces of paper. Then you fold the paper and put one dollar bill inside
of it so it can t be seen, to prevent thievery,. then you put the paper,
with the dollar bill inside of it, in the envelope and seal it.
3. Next address the five envelopes to the five address below and put a
stamps on each of the envelopes. Now send them away.
4. Then copy this message and change it by taking #1 off the list and
moving the other four up {4 becomes 5, 3 becomes 4 and so forth} then
put your address as #5
5. Now post the new message {with your address as #5} on at least 2
newsgroups, but remember the more newsgroups you post on the more money
you ll get.

HERE ARE THE ADDRESSESS

#1 M. Mafucci, 3 Hilltop Rd, Bronxville, NY 10708
#2 Joyal Holder, 1980 N Snyder Dr., Richland Center, Wisconsin 53581
#3 Evan Christensen 2746 Ome Ave, Dayton, OH 45414
#4 Grahame Elton, 31A Hong Kong Street, Singapore 059 670
#5 Chris Ebert, 6621 Imperial Ridge, El Paso, TX 79912

Now the why part:
Out of 2 postings, say I receive only 5 replies (a very low example).
So then I made $5.00 with my name at #5 on the letter. Now, each of the

5 persons who just sent me $1.00 make the minimum 2 postings, each
with my name at #4, and only 5 persons respond to each of the original
5. That s another $25.00 for me. Now those 25 each make 2 minimum
postings with my name at #3 and only 5 reply to each. I will bring in
an additional $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn around and post the
minimum 2 with my name at #2 and only receive 5 replies each, I will
make an additional $626.00! Okay, now here is the fun part. Each of
those 625 persons post a minimum 2 letters with my name at #1 and they
each only receive 5 replies. That just made me $3,125.00 with an
original investment of only $5.00! AMAZING! And as I said, 5 responses

is actually very low!
Average is probably 20 to 30! So let s put those figures at just 15
responses per person. Here is what you will make:
at #5 - $15.00
at #4 - $225.00
at #3 - $3,375.00
at #2 - $50,625.00
at #1 - $759,375.00
When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest
posting and start all over again. Be honest. If you don t come up with
the measly $1.00 per person, people will know and you won t get much.
One guy did that and made only $150 in eight weeks. Keep track of who
sends you money and watch the newsgroups for those names. GOOD LUCK!

------------------------------

From: Jeff Daniels <je...@texaslink.com>
Subject: Re: Secure linux shell and client
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 10:36:33 -0500

Wilder wrote:
|
| I am wondering if anyone has found a secure linux shell and a dos/windows
| counterpart so that a tcp/ip connection can be encrypted between client and
| server. I am sure that something like this has to exist but i just dont know
| where to begin looking. I know that tcp/ip passwords are sent in clear text
| and i am hoping that i can use this shell to reliably access my linux server
| from home without haveing my line sniffed by half the campus.
|
| anything that can at least point me in the right direction would be greatly
| appreciated.
|
| thanks
|
| Wilder
|
| |*******************************************|
| Wilder
| ajwi...@wam.umd.edu::ajwi...@glue.umd.edu
| Linux?....Because its better.
| |*******************************************|

Hi wilder,
I use the secured shell myself. Although, I use it from linux to
linux. you can get ssh from http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh/ and the windows
counter part from http://www.datafellows.com/f-secure. The windows
client is about $99.00 -- but, the ssh server comes with its own
client. Hope this helps.

JEFF

------------------------------

From: "Prygiel P.M." <ppry...@nordnet.fr>
Subject: one minute to connect with telnet !
Date: 1 Aug 1997 16:09:53 GMT

Hello,

i just have installed redhat 4.1
I want to make connection from win95 and i takes me one minute to get
connection !!
same problem with ftp connection !

the problem doesn't come from win95 because i tried on another server and
all is ok !

Have someone the same problem and would you know where is the solution ?

Thank you for your help

------------------------------

From: "Prygiel P.M." <ppry...@nordnet.fr>
Subject: Where to get Netscape for linux ?
Date: 1 Aug 1997 16:22:47 GMT

Hello,

Could somedy tell me where i could get Netscape for Linux ?
Is there any other product similar ?

Thank you very much!!

Prygiel P.M.

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From: five...@primenet.com (Donald Judd)
Subject: PPP probelms, or is it my modem?
Date: 24 Jul 1997 20:38:00 -0700

Here is a problem for anyone smarter than me:

I am attempting to use two telecommunication, Seyon and minicom, one
in X and one in Linux. I am using a 14.4kpbs Hayes compatible modem,
on a 486/33 (hope to be getting an Alpha soon :) ) Anyway, I can not
connect to my ISP properly at any speed higher than 9600 baud,
immediatley after connection, my modem disconnects again and I get the
no carrier message. At 9600 baud or less, my modem connects fine, and
stays connected, but It crawls along at next to zero speed, like 8
characters every 30 seconds or so. A connection process that normally
takes less than 30 seconds, now takes well over 30 minutes.

For the record, I have set serial to 19200 and set serial spd_hi,
neither helped in the least. I have attempted to write my own PPP
connection script, three in fact, and none of them will connect at any
speed, although they'll dial in just fine. If anyone has any
suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

------------------------------

From: "Prygiel P.M." <ppry...@nordnet.fr>
Subject: One minute to get telnet connection
Date: 1 Aug 1997 16:34:37 GMT

hello,

It takes me one minute to get ftp and telnet connection from win95 to linux
redhat 4.1
could somedy help me to solve this problem ?

Thank you very much

Prygiel P.M.

------------------------------

From: Bob Smart <bsm...@tti.com>
Subject: Re: ppp-> NT server with dialback

Reply-To: bsm...@tti.com
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 10:23:16 GMT

Kenton Brown wrote:
|
| On Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:24:01 GMT, Bob Smart <bsm...@tti.com> wrote:

(No, he didn't. K. Brown did.)

| Do we need the deslib to do DES encryption with this? The
| README.MSCHAP80 mentions it. I downloaded it but there
| is no dep file so I can not run make dep with it. It will not
| compile. It cant find the linux/xxxxx.h files nor the asm/xxxxxx.h
| files.

H'mmm...sounds to me like either you don't have the kernel sources
installed, or you don't have the symbolic links that point from
/usr/include into your kernel source tree (or you have them, but they
point to the wrong place). Anyway, kernel source is where these
includes actually come from.

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From: "Lee Mitchell" <L...@spamtastic.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: can't chat to my modem :-(
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 17:58:18 GMT

PS My modem is a Multitech 1932zdx (19.2K)

Chat scripts I have tried include the following (with no sucess) :-

chat "" ATZ OK ATDT08453535666 CONNECT
chat -V "" ATZ OK ATDT08453535666 CONNECT

I don't even get an OK back from the modem from the ATZ part. I have set
the modem port in the control panel in X to ttys1 (COM2), This must be
correct becouse minicom works now and I have a /dev/modem psuedofile.
Hope this helps a little !, any help would be greatly appreciated

--
Lee Mitchell
L...@spamtastic.demon.co.uk

"Aaahh... Marvelous! I see that you
have the machine that goes 'bing!'"

--
Lee Mitchell
L...@spamtastic.demon.co.uk

"Aaahh... Marvelous! I see that you
have the machine that goes 'bing!'"

Lee Mitchell <L...@spamtastic.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<01bc9d38$570c8920$7eaa...@spamtastic.demon.co.uk>...
| Please help !
| I am trying to configure my Linux box to dial my ISP. I can use minicom
to
| talk to my modem, but chat simply refuses to co-operate..
| I have tried using the same modem init string as minicom, but I cant even
| get it to return an OK after sending ATZ
|
| Any help would enable me to begin using Linux on the net rather than
| microshite
| (surely this is a good enough incentive !!!)
|
| --
| Lee Mitchell
| L...@spamtastic.demon.co.uk
|
| "Aaahh... Marvelous! I see that you
| have the machine that goes 'bing!'"
|
|

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From: dper...@celerity.com (Don Peruski)
Subject: Telnet /Connection refused from Win95 to Linux
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 14:36:53 GMT

Help. I have setup many Linux machines on bigger networks and never had
problems. Now, I setup a Linux machine with a fresh download of Slackware 3.3
and want to use it as an internet router for my other to '95 machines for
home and have problems! 192.168.1.1 is the Linux, .2 and .3 are the '95
machines. When I try to telnet to the .1 from a '95 machine(both), it tells
me connection refused! Never gives me a login prompt. I can ping just fine
and can telnet to the SMTP port fine also! I can FTP fine too! I connect the
Linux box to the internet with my ISDN modem and using IP Masq works great. I
can get to the net through Linux with my '95 machines, but still cannot telnet
to it!!! This makes it a pain to configure, as I am short a monitor! :)

Is this a slackware 3.3 bug, or a defective user? I can telnet to myself
fine also. Strange thing is that I telnetted to a machine on the net and from
that point telnetted back from that to my Linux box and that worked also! I'm
confused.

I have compiled a 2.0.30 kernel with IP masq, firewall, and am using a SMC
ultra-type card. Once again, this is a Slackware 3.3 install.

Thank you.

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From: James_Kingdon <j...@pac.soton.ac.uk>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: linux ppp to NT RAS with dialback?
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 10:31:41 +0100
Reply-To: James Kingdon <j...@pac.soton.ac.uk>

Hi,

I'm hoping someone can help me out with my ppp config.

I've installed ppp-2.3.0 with MSCHAP and CBCP support on a linux 2.0.27
machine, connecting to a NT3 server. Everything goes fairly well; the
chap authorisation works, callback is agreed, the remote server rings me
back, and the modem answers. Unfortunately the pppd process exits during
the dialback phase, so there is nothing waiting for the call! If I start
a second pppd after the callback, then this establishes the link ok, but
this seems like a clunky and difficult to automate way of solving the
problem.

I've tried using the persist and local options but nothing seems to make
any difference.

How is this supposed to be done?

Many thanks,
James.

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From: C. Patterson<Ic...@direct.ca>
Subject: I was wondering...
Date: 1 Aug 1997 17:09:57 GMT

I was wondering if anybody could help...

My fiancee and I want to visit her parents before
our wedding.

However, the cheapest trip we can find is still well
beyond our financial means...

If you can offer any help, it would be greatly
appreciated.

Much thanks,

Clint Patterson
141-549 6200 McKay Ave
Burnaby, BC Canada
V5H 4L7

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From: pno...@cts.com (Paul P. Norton)

Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: S: Driver for "IBM Token-Ring Network 16/4 Adapter II"
Date: 01 Aug 1997 12:34:25 -0700

Thomas Peuss <pe...@cip.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> writes:

| Hello!
|
| Is someone developing or has developed a driver for the "IBM Token-Ring
| Network 16/4 Adapter II" (a DMA-busmastering-device)? The card is not
| covered by the current Linux-Tokenring-driver.

Probably not. That adapter has been around for a while and I haven't
heard of anyone developing a driver for it. I do have a technical
reference for it though.

Paul

|
| --
| CU/2
| Thomas
|
| +-------------------------------------------------+-----------------+
| | EMail to: | |
| | | |
| | Homepage: www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/2626 | |
| | Scall: ++49-(0)1681-9639308 | o |
| | FidoNet: 2:2474/10.13@fidonet | /^\ |
| | | /'^'\ |
| | InterNet: pe...@cip.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de | ( o o ) |
| +-------------------------------------------------+-oOOO--(_)--000o-+

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From: vin...@sir-nose.tdl.com (Mr. Vince)
Subject: Re: PPP and chat problem.
Date: 30 Jul 97 14:55:32 GMT

In message <87zprk5...@lucy.dima.at.home> - Dmitry Yaitskov
<di...@interlog.com> writes:
:>
:>Do you have ppp-on and ppp-off scripts in your distributions? They
:>tend to work well.

I have both scripts. They came with Slackware. When I try to run either of
those or the script, ppp-go, I always get "connect script failed". With
ppp-go, the modem will dial but it never connects, then I'll get the error
message.

I'm testing these scripts as root and I believe they are all set for owner and
group ownership as "root". Which way should I go? Do the scripts belong in
any specific directory? Should they have any specific permissions?

Vince

*********************************************************
Get rid of "Sir-Nose", then tell me what you know.

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From: mfr...@saturn.tlug.org (Mike Frisch)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: POP3d lock error
Date: 30 Jul 1997 14:29:24 GMT

On Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:57:45 +0000, Edward Sargisson <esa...@pobox.com> wrote:
|On one account after the pass command POP3 returns something like:
|-ERR Already being read /var/spool/mail/dom

Do an 'ls -a /var/spool/mail' and look for any "hidden" lock files. I
believe this error message is the result of the lock file existing when
the POP server attempts to open the mail spool yet again. Assuming the
mail spool is not in use by another process, remove the lock file and try
again.

Mike.

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Northstar Technologies WWW: http://mfrisch.rogerswave.ca/~mfrisch
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada Reseller of SCSI/video/etc cabling

------------------------------

From: ho...@rrr.net_NOSPAM (Bernard M. Piller)

Subject: ipfwadm and local net
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 18:52:38 +0200

I have a basic IP masquerading setup on my Linux box. What bothers me is
that a connection to the Internet is triggered, even when the machines
on the local network are talking to each other. How do I set up a rule,
that ipfwadm only starts the connection when an address outside
192.168.1.x is accessed?

Bernard

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From: c23...@eng.delcoelect.com (Perry Grieb)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: C compiler
Date: 25 Jul 1997 10:41:46 -0500
Reply-To: c23...@eng.delcoelect.com

In article <5r8c9t$ieo$1...@news.en.com>,
jw...@en.com (Jon West) writes:
|
| Hello, I'm new to linux, and new to C, and I'm wondering
| where the C compiler is on Linux thanks
| Jon

Type "whereis gcc" at your local command line.
It is possible you did not install it when you
went through the install process, in which case
is can be installed later. Exact command to do
this may be a little distribution dependent.

Perry Grieb
c23...@eng.delcoelect.com
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From: A S Measures <alas...@camel.demon.co.uk>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: C compiler
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 18:58:47 +0100

You might also want to use xwpe which is an
Integrated Development Environment and highly
similar to Turbo C/C++. It is included in
most distributions and needs X windows to
be running.

xwpe uses a DOS style top line menu and you
can fire the compiler from there.

For larger programs you will want to drive
gcc/g++ (compiler) directly or with a utility
called make.

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Contents:
Re: Changing the default "localhost" hostname (Sian Leitch)
Re: Fax and linux (Sian Leitch)
NFS: different uid/gid (Ray DeJean)
Re: Getting Mail From Muliple POP Accounts (Todd Pafford)
NIS Client on Slackware 2.0 Linux (Sylvain Fauvel)
network file copy problem (Chuck Campbell)
xDSL support? (Scott C. Cottrille)
Re: NIS Client on Slackware 2.0 Linux (Sylvain Fauvel)
Re: xDSL support? (Andre Oppermann)
PnP-Lets get it right! (mct)
Re: 3c905 woes (possibly) (Azunna Anyanwu)
Server Collocation for $300/month (Gilles Boccon-Gibod)
Problem with EEPRO (Marcus Thielmann)
Re: Finger problem (Andreas Gutzwiller)
Solved (I hope): NFS server only works for 5 minutes???? (Mogens Kjaer)
Re: IPMasq modules problems (Scott W. Petersen)
Re: can normal user run server software? (Kevin Lyda)
Re: Madge Token Ring Card Driver ("Bruce H. McIntosh")
Re: :( Don't know how to install NE2000 compatible card on Linux (Scott W. Petersen)
problem with client using nfs root (Michael Q. Le)

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From: Sian Leitch <phoi...@zetnet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Changing the default "localhost" hostname
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 18:59:21 +0100

In message <33CE9F4A...@mail.tds.net>
Stephen Marz <sm...@mail.tds.net> writes:

| Andrew Morris wrote:

| Isn't that in /etc/HOSTNAME file?

Sometimes, and sometimes /etc/hostname

--
Sian

/\_/\_/\
/ \ Dr Sian Leitch
\ / Inverness, Scotland
\//__\\/

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From: Sian Leitch <phoi...@zetnet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Fax and linux
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 19:02:35 +0100

In message <33D0DBA2...@cs.une.edu.au>
Patrick Lenders <p...@cs.une.edu.au> writes:

| I have a notebook running linux, and would like to send faxes. Any
| software available for this purpose?

Debian 1.2 has a fax subsystem. Works beautifully with my USR
Sportster 14400. I don't remember the package name (I'm not posting
via Linux yet).
--
Sian

/\_/\_/\
/ \ Dr Sian Leitch
\ / Inverness, Scotland
\//__\\/

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Subject: NFS: different uid/gid
From: Ray DeJean <r...@cs.selu.edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 13:51:03 -0500

Hello all,

I'm trying to mount a mode 770 dir. I finally got it working with a
anongid option, but still having a problem. NFS is mapping the numeric
UIDs on the server to username UID's on the client, and they have
different uid/gid's. How can i fix this??! Ideally, i want to mount it
read only, and have all the files appear(to the clent) to be owned by
root. This is the only dir i want to export, so really have no other use
for the map daemon.

Here's the exports from the server:
/web cs(ro,all_squash,anonuid=65534,anongid=103)

I'm mounting with: mount cyclops:/web /cyclops

Any suggestions?!

TIA,
Ray
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rde...@neosoft.com http://cs.selu.edu/~ray
System Administrator: Cs.selu.edu
President, Southeastern Louisiana University ACM
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From: Todd Pafford <ga...@erols.com>
Subject: Re: Getting Mail From Muliple POP Accounts
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:52:20 -0400

Marty Albert wrote:
[snip]
| OK, I want to first thank everyone who replied and I have downloaded
| fetchmail and got it installed and it seems to work just fine. The setup
| was much easier than for popclient!
|
| Now, I think I need to clarify what I want to be able to do...
|
| I have two local users who have accounts on Geocities (I'll call them
| Jim and Bob) so their Internet E-Mail addresses are:
|
| j...@geocities.com
| b...@geocities.com
|
| I can, with fetchmail, connect to the Geocities POP3 client
| (mail.geocities.com) and by sending the appropriate username and
| passwords, fetchmail downloads their mail and deletes it from Geocities
| just fine. This is where the problems begin...
|
| All of their mail ends up going to root on this system. I tried putting
| an entry in the aliases file as:
[snip]

Apparently, you don't need to use the aliases file at all. in your
~/.fetchmailrc file, you can use lines like this:

poll pop.isp.com with protocol POP3:
user Joe there with password SuperSecret is JoeCool here
user Bill there with password Boo! is SuperBill here

This should call up the mythological pop.isp.com and check each of the
users' (Joe and Bill) mailboxes and deliver the mail to their proper
names on the local machine (JoeCool and SuperBill). I haven't tested it
with multiple users, but as I understand from the man pages this is how
it should work. I do use it for one user (myself) with different names
on the two machines and it works like a charm. :)

Note that the ~/.fetchmailrc file needs to be in the home dir of
whatever user fetchmail is running as. In other words, if you're just
typing fetchmail at the command line it can be in your home dir, but if
you're calling fetchmail from /etc/ppp/ip-up or as a deamon from a rc
file, .fetchmailrc should be in root's home dir.

Hope this helps,
Todd Pafford

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From: fau...@vogon.INRS-Telecom.UQuebec.CA (Sylvain Fauvel)
Subject: NIS Client on Slackware 2.0 Linux
Date: 31 Jul 1997 12:20:07 -0400

Hello,
My first post was not very detailed.

Context :
"Slackware V2.0" version of Linux.
libc Version 4.7.6

The problem :
Cant run NIS client. When i try to start ypbind i get :

-> # /usr/sbin/ypbind
-> # ypwhich
-> can't yp_bind: Reason: RPC failure
-> #

Details :
I also get the following :
-> # ps -auxww | grep -i yp
-> root 1461 0.0 0.5 784 360 ? S 16:23 0:00 ypbind (master)
-> root 1462 0.0 1.5 1940 980 ? S 16:23 0:00 ypbind (slave)
-> #
Why is there a master and a slave "ypbind". On my other LINUX machine
i only have one "ypbind". This seem very odd to me. Master and slaves
usually apply to servers, not clients.

"rpcinfo -p localhost" gives:
-> # rpcinfo -p localhost
-> program vers proto port
-> 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
-> 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
-> 100005 1 udp 703 mountd
-> 100005 1 tcp 705 mountd
-> 100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
-> 100003 2 tcp 2049 nfs
-> YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain Shambala
-> YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain Shambala
-> 300019 1 udp 737
-> 100007 2 udp 799 ypbind
-> 100007 2 tcp 801 ypbind
-> #
->
"rpcinfo -b ypserv 2" gives :
-># rpcinfo -b ypserv 2
->192.26.211.119 velcro.inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca
->192.26.211.113 vogon
which seems right.

My domain is set and i know the server is there (it serves the
other PC running linux). "rpc.portmap" is there.

I would apreciate any information on what could be wrong or
missing.

Thank you in advance.

Sylvain

==============================================================================
Sylvain Fauvel fau...@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca (514) 761-8647
INRS Telecommunications, 16 Place du Commerce, Verdun, Quebec, Canada, H3E 1H6
==============================================================================
--
==============================================================================
Sylvain Fauvel fau...@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca (514) 761-8647
INRS Telecommunications, 16 Place du Commerce, Verdun, Quebec, Canada, H3E 1H6
==============================================================================

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From: camp...@neosoft.com (Chuck Campbell)
Subject: network file copy problem
Date: 28 Jul 1997 20:28:37 GMT

I've gotten my redhat linux 4.2 system working happily in our network,
allowing rcp to work between all of our machines.

I've just gotten the ppp link to our ISP established from this linux box as
well, but after connection I cannot get any rcp copies to work. I've
added an entry in the .rhosts file on my end, but all my rcp's give
a permission denied error.

What might I be missing here? Is there something on my ISP's end?
I am using telnet to my shell account at the ISP w/ no problems, but I can't
move any files back and forth...

thanks,
-chuck

"Integration means more than having all the maps at the same scale!"

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From: sco...@neuron.neurosurgery.washington.edu (Scott C. Cottrille)
Subject: xDSL support?
Date: 31 Jul 1997 16:49:30 GMT
Reply-To: sco...@neuron.neurosurgery.washington.eduREMOVETHIS

Forgive me if this has already been asked, I haven't been reading this
group. Is anyone developing drivers for ADSL for linux? If so, what's
the status and what manufacturers' devices are initially being supported?
If not, is anyone intending to, and in what time frame? Thanks,

-scott

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From: fau...@vogon.INRS-Telecom.UQuebec.CA (Sylvain Fauvel)
Subject: Re: NIS Client on Slackware 2.0 Linux
Date: 31 Jul 1997 14:12:48 -0400

I Fixed dthe Problem myself. Finaly managed to get
the MAN page for "ypbind" and learned about the
"-broken_server" option. Got a hint from the
syslog too. The problem seem to be with my
NIS server which is quite old. I plan to
upgrade to a newer version on SUN anyway.

Sylvain

Sylvain Fauvel (fau...@vogon.INRS-Telecom.UQuebec.CA) wrote:

: Hello,
: My first post was not very detailed.

: Context :
: "Slackware V2.0" version of Linux.
: libc Version 4.7.6

: The problem :
: Cant run NIS client. When i try to start ypbind i get :

: -> # /usr/sbin/ypbind
: -> # ypwhich
: -> can't yp_bind: Reason: RPC failure
: -> #

: Details :
: I also get the following :
: -> # ps -auxww | grep -i yp
: -> root 1461 0.0 0.5 784 360 ? S 16:23 0:00 ypbind (master)
: -> root 1462 0.0 1.5 1940 980 ? S 16:23 0:00 ypbind (slave)
: -> #
: Why is there a master and a slave "ypbind". On my other LINUX machine
: i only have one "ypbind". This seem very odd to me. Master and slaves
: usually apply to servers, not clients.

: "rpcinfo -p localhost" gives:
: -> # rpcinfo -p localhost
: -> program vers proto port
: -> 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
: -> 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
: -> 100005 1 udp 703 mountd
: -> 100005 1 tcp 705 mountd
: -> 100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
: -> 100003 2 tcp 2049 nfs
: -> YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain Shambala
: -> YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain Shambala
: -> 300019 1 udp 737
: -> 100007 2 udp 799 ypbind
: -> 100007 2 tcp 801 ypbind
: -> #
: ->
: "rpcinfo -b ypserv 2" gives :
: -># rpcinfo -b ypserv 2
: ->192.26.211.119 velcro.inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca
: ->192.26.211.113 vogon
: which seems right.

: My domain is set and i know the server is there (it serves the
: other PC running linux). "rpc.portmap" is there.

: I would apreciate any information on what could be wrong or
: missing.

: Thank you in advance.

: Sylvain

: ==============================================================================
: Sylvain Fauvel fau...@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca (514) 761-8647
: INRS Telecommunications, 16 Place du Commerce, Verdun, Quebec, Canada, H3E 1H6
: ==============================================================================
: --
: ==============================================================================
: Sylvain Fauvel fau...@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca (514) 761-8647
: INRS Telecommunications, 16 Place du Commerce, Verdun, Quebec, Canada, H3E 1H6
: ==============================================================================
--
==============================================================================
Sylvain Fauvel fau...@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca (514) 761-8647
INRS Telecommunications, 16 Place du Commerce, Verdun, Quebec, Canada, H3E 1H6
==============================================================================

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From: Andre Oppermann <oppe...@pipeline.ch>
Subject: Re: xDSL support?
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:47:20 +0200

Scott C. Cottrille wrote:
|
| Forgive me if this has already been asked, I haven't been reading this
| group. Is anyone developing drivers for ADSL for linux? If so,
| what's
| the status and what manufacturers' devices are initially being
| supported?
| If not, is anyone intending to, and in what time frame? Thanks,

Most of the xDSL systems have ethernet interfaces. The only thing
you need is a ethernet card in your box and an ethernet cross-cable.

--
Andre Oppermann

CEO / Geschaeftsfuehrer
Internet Business Solutions Ltd. (AG)
Hardstrasse 235, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland
Fon +41 1 277 75 75 / Fax +41 1 277 75 77
http://www.pipeline.ch i...@pipeline.ch

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From: mct <m...@rust.net>
Subject: PnP-Lets get it right!
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:06:06 -0400
Reply-To: m...@rust.net

These poor people and their pnp 3COMS. It won't work, so everyone
screams NO PNP!
I have set up several 509b cards in Linux boxes, and NEVER ONCE DISABLED
the PnP! In fact, unless you should incounter a conflict of sorts, the
most one should need to do is change the address, and IRQ. One situation
I can remember is having to change to 10baseT using the stupid dos
config utility, because Linux would not sniff them out through the big
phone wires. Again, NEVER DISABLING THE PnP!
If you have two cards in the same machine, Linux will find them both if
the address and IRQ settings do not conflict, and LILO.conf is set up
correctly, as the "mini howto" explains:

For most people running a standard Linux distribution, just add this
line to the top of your /etc/lilo.conf file and re-run `lilo':

append = "ether=0,0,eth1"

This will make Linux run two ethernet 3COMS just dandy, and PNP has
nothing to do with it!

Also, "re-enabling the PnP" If for example when you discover that Linux
still won't find it because PnP had nothing to do with it, and all that
was needed in the first place was to change the base address, and
well...since you turned the PnP switch off.... can sometimes be a pain.
Yes, Dos can't find it either!

If the configuration of the card is set correctly, and the Kernel is
burned to run it, getting a single 3COM working should be nothing harder
than plug...I mean putting it in. If I can get them to work, Anyone out
there can to.

Pat Donahue
m...@rust.net

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From: Azunna Anyanwu <any...@fas.harvard.edu>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: 3c905 woes (possibly)
Date: 31 Jul 1997 16:55:00 GMT

In comp.os.linux.networking Matt Spaid <ma...@webpromote.com> wrote:
|Yes, if anyone out there can help me to get my 3COM 3C905-TX card to
|work under linux that would be great. I just instaleld 2.0.30 yesterday
|and the card is not supported. So if you know where I can get drivers
|from or even if they already exsist and I did not see them in my rc.d
|files... <shrug> any/all help is greatly appreciated. Please email me
|back:

Go to http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html and download
3c59x.c from there. Replace /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/3c59x.c with the
newly downloaded file. in /usr/src/linux, do
make config; make dep; make clean; make zImage; make modules; make
modules_install

Reboot with the new image (either via LILO or floppy) and you
should see the card mentioned (you might also see something about unknown
device 10b7:90005 etc; ignore it).

--
Azunna Anyanwu '00 any...@fas.harvard.edu
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~anyanwu/
"That which doen't Kill you, only makes you Stronger!"

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From: Gilles Boccon-Gibod <b...@bok.net>
Crossposted-To: ba.internet,alt.bbs.internet,alt.internet,alt.internet.providers.america,alt.internet.services
Subject: Server Collocation for $300/month
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 18:05:02 -0700

We are looking for people interested in sharing a fast connection to the
net. We are setting up a full T1 link in Menlo Park, CA, and are
offering to share the cost of the connection with whoever would like to
put his/her machine on the network at our location.
Price is $300/month for a machine if you manage the machine, or $500 if
you want us to manage it (setting up and maintaining the OS, email, web
server, etc...)
Take a look at http://www.milou.net for a list of what we offer.
We will start the service as soon as there are enough 'customers' to
cover the cost of the T-1, and we will upgrade bandwidth if more
machines want to hook up (we do not intend to make mone from this, we
just want to share the cost of the link).

We are 100% flexible, and any configuration is possible (if you want to
be beind the firewall, or before, if you want 10baseT or thin-net, if
you want a private phone line to your machine, etc... anything can be
worked out).

Drop me a line if you're interested.

--
##### # ### -------------------------------------------------+
##### ### ##### Gilles Boccon-Gibod b...@bok.net |
##### ##### ##### Milou Internet Services |
##### ####### ### -------------------------------------------------+

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From: Marcus Thielmann <thie...@11.kblz1.telekom400.dbp.de>
Subject: Problem with EEPRO
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:13:36 +0200

Hello folks,
I have installed LINUX (2.0.30) on a computer with a network card
'Intel Ethernet Express Pro 10+'.
I have choosen the EEPRO (V.0.09 7/31/96) driver. I have tested it with
the module and the build in driver.
The driver is loaded, the MAC address is shown and all network
configuration is done without any problem.
But if I try to ping the default gateway, it is not successful.
I have traced the net with an network analyzer, so I saw that the
computer sent out the ARP request that was correctly answered from the
gateway. But the entry was not shown with arp -a.
The card sent all some seconds an arp request till I stopped the ping.
After that I tried to add the MAC address to the arp table with arp -s.
If I tried then to ping, the network card correctly sends no arp
request, but an ICMP packet to the gateway (since it knows the MAC
address now). The ICMP was answered from the Gateway but not recognized
from the Linux machine.

Any suggestions??

Thanks

Marcus

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From: an...@hippo.proxyon.imp.com (Andreas Gutzwiller)
Subject: Re: Finger problem
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:19:09 GMT

Evan G. Wolenzik <wole...@radish.interlink-bbs.com> wrote:
|
|For some reason, everytime I finger someone on my site it says
|"Never logged in". Strangely enough, it _does_ display their
|current (and correct) mail situation. My guess is that this is
|a directory or file permissions problem.
|
|Does anyone know enough about "finger" to help me on this?
|

That's the normal behavior. When I finger a person at the university
I use finger [name]@ifi.unizh.ch.
They are never logged in but I can see the mail situation. The peoble
can't login to ifi.unizh.ch they need a "real" computer. For example
claude.ifi.unizh.ch. So you need to know the machine name where
they are logged in and not only the domain of the mail address.
--
Andreas Gutzwiller FIDO: 2:301/707.13
SWITZERLAND CIS: 100072,130
PGP-key: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/agutzwil/pgp.htm
Fingerprint: A3 2D 1D B1 BA 1E 36 B6 A2 AB 54 90 46 86 01 85

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From: Mogens Kjaer <m...@crc.dk>
Subject: Solved (I hope): NFS server only works for 5 minutes????
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:33:08 +0200

Mogens Kjaer wrote:
|
| I wrote:
| >
| > I hope someone can help me with this:
| ........
|
| Hm, I managed to get test printing running from mountd and nfsd.
|
| Sometimes, it is mountd that hangs, other times it is nfsd.
|
| The last action before/during hanging is gethostbyaddr
|
| I don't have any trouble with name servers in other cases! Everything
| else on the machine works, telnet, X11, netscape, rlogin, nslookup, etc. etc.
|
| When the process hangs I can take the IP number listed in the log file
| that mountd/nfsd passed on to gethostbyaddr, and look it up using nslookup
| without problems.
|

After having recompiled libc with debug information etc. etc. I found
out that gethostbyaddr hangs during some yp_ whatever calls.

We don't use nis for nameserver lookups (we use dns), so I simply removed nis
and nisplus
from the hosts entry in nsswitch.conf - this seems to have cured the problem!

Mogens

--
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Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark
Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08
Email: m...@crc.dk Homepage: http://www.crc.dk

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From: xsco...@wwa.com (Scott W. Petersen)
Subject: Re: IPMasq modules problems
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 02:10:25 GMT

On 24 Jul 1997 01:39:42 GMT, sat...@prairienet.org (Steve Atwell)
wrote:

|I have compiled my 2.0.30 kernel for IP Masquerading support, and
|everything works fine, except when I try to install any of the
|ip_masq modules except ftp or irc, they tell me
|
|Segmentation fault (core dumped)
|
|When I was using a 2.0.27 kernel with the IP Masquerading patches
|all of the modules would work just fine. Note that I got no errors
|while compiling. Any ideas?
|
|
|--
|=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
|Steve Atwell - sat...@prairienet.org or sat...@ix.netcom.com
|Web Page - http://www.prairienet.org/~satwell
|=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
I might be interested in IP Masquerading to share the internet with
some other workstations connected to my linux box.

Do you always have to recompile the kernel to have IP Masquerading?

Scott

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Scott W. Petersen - N9SLA
Web Page: www.wwa.com/~scooter
Elgin, IL - USA
Packet E-mail:
N9...@W9ZMR.EN52VA.IL.USA.NOAM
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If there is a leading x on my e-mail address please remove it if you want to e-mail me directly.
I do this because of the abundance of junk mail I receive.

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From: ke...@klyda.faxinter.com (Kevin Lyda)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: can normal user run server software?
Date: 24 Jul 1997 17:50:57 GMT
Reply-To: ke...@unifi.com

douglas (g5ra...@cdf.toronto.edu) wrote:
: I'm currently playing with sockets and wonder if an ordinary user can
: run the server software? I've written a simple chat server and it runs
: fine with the client program in the same login session. However, when
: I run both programs on different machines, the client program cannot make
: a connection to the server program. What is the problem here? Does the
: server program have to be run by root to function properly?

it does if it's listening on a port below 1024. another issue to consider
is that you need make sure the port is in network byte order. a good
way to see if your server is running is to run it in the background and
then do a netstat -an | grep <port number> to see if it's listening on
the port you think it's listening on.

kevin
--
nothing to see here. just keep typing. nothing to see...

sSuPcAkMs@localhost ke...@unifi.com

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From: "Bruce H. McIntosh" <bru...@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu>
Subject: Re: Madge Token Ring Card Driver
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 10:58:54 -0400

I thought that one of the selling points of the Madge cards was their
absolute, true-Blue register level IBM TROPIC compatibility. Given that,
you *should* be able to use the drivers for the IBM token ring card with
no problem.

======================================================================
Bruce H. McIntosh bru...@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu
Senior Engineer http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~brucem
UF/Northeast Regional Data Center 352-392-2061

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From: xsco...@wwa.com (Scott W. Petersen)
Subject: Re: :( Don't know how to install NE2000 compatible card on Linux
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 02:48:01 GMT

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997 23:41:23 -0400, "Paul D. Farber II"
<far...@voicenet.com> wrote:

|Min Xie wrote:
|>
|> Hi, everybody,
|>
|> I am pretty new in Linux. Can any ony tell me how to install the NE2000 in
|> Linux 3.2 environment and make it running?
|>
|> Thanks
|> Min
|
|First, Read the HOWTO's, they do work and will get you going... believe
|me. Specifically look at NET-2/3, Kernel, and Hardware HOWTO's. Its
|about 50 pages for all of them.
|
|The general outline is as follows:
|
|Pick a NE2000 card, configure it using the utility (for PnP or set the
|jumpers on the card.
|Compile a kernel that has either IP or IPX or Appletalk and support for
|the NE2000 card (its better to compile the support rather than use a
|module.. less files to track and saves a step).
|Boot the machine and look for a line *NE2000 with the IO and IRQ listed.
|Its best to use 320 through 360 as a base addr becaus ethe code will
|automatically probe these locations.
On Slackware I did not have to compile a kernel to include support for
NE2000, I am not sure about Red Hat though.

I setup networking with the setup command in Slackware and it did
detect the NE2000 but I needed to tell it what address it was at.
During the boot up it told me what file to edit.

I Think the NE2000 cards must be the easiest cards to configure.

Scott

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From: l...@ece.ucdavis.edu (Michael Q. Le)
Subject: problem with client using nfs root
Date: 28 Jul 1997 17:35:34 GMT

Hello,

I am booting a diskless client using nfs root. The client boots fine
and I get a login prompt. However, when I try to login it fails
with "unable to open tty1, bad file number". The /dev directory
for the tftpboot client looks like:

drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 1024 Jul 25 16:40 ../
crw--w--w- 1 root tty 4, 0 Jul 28 10:11 console
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jul 28 10:12 tty0 -> console
crw------- 1 root root 4, 1 Jul 28 10:13 tty1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 18432 Jul 28 10:13 ./
crw------- 1 root root 4, 2 Jul 28 10:13 tty2

Why can't I open a console during login?

Thanks for any help,

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Subject: Linux-Networking Digest #320

Linux-Networking Digest #320, Volume #6 Sun, 3 Aug 97 06:13:37 EDT

Contents:
Re: Cable Modem - What are the problems that come with it? (Ed Clarke)
Re: Which 56K modem to buy? (Mason Wright)
networking over an null-modem with windows 3.1 (Christopher Mitchell)
Re: @Home Network and Linux Networking (Todd Graham Lewis)
Re: 3C900 Netword card problems (Todd Graham Lewis)
STT-Mailgate: comp.os.linux.networking (Daniele Carbonetti)
Re: Need REAL VT emmulator (Robert Kiesling)
Re: demand-dial PPP? (Andreas Gutzwiller)
Re: How can I check if a card is operating at 100Mbits (Scott W. Petersen)
8bit clean ISP and PPP (rse...@ibm.net)
Anyone recommend a telnetd? (ms)
Re: Opinions Wanted: Which OS? (Tom Elsesser)
PPP still not working..Please help... (Herry Tedja)
SPX - Tests/Testers sought (Jim Freeman)
Re: Cable Modem - What are the problems that come with it? (Chung Chiew Farn)
Re: Netscape hangs during startup - kernel BUG ? (Ramiro Estrugo)
Cable Modem (mct)
Re: Puzzle, How to dump a drive through parallel port to another computer? (Urs Thuermann)
Re: Setting up Linux as a Print Server (How?) (Vladimir Vuksan)
Diald with Zyxel 2864I (Guenther Angerbauer)
Invalid ipfwadm accounting figures (?) ("Leander M. Berwers")

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From: cla...@acheron.cilia.org (Ed Clarke)
Subject: Re: Cable Modem - What are the problems that come with it?
Date: 3 Aug 1997 02:01:30 GMT

On Thu, 31 Jul 1997 02:17:35 GMT, Chung Chiew Farn
<cfc...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
|>BTW, it was well worth the trouble. The modem is blazing.
|What about security-wise problems? Judging by the layout of the connection
|to your ISP (token ring form), how much more unsafe would it be compared
|to connecting with a phone line? Since all your packets are sent around
|for anyone to read....
|Also, (I'm not sure about this), if you initiate a telnet connection,
|everything is sent in cleartext right? (includes my password). That'd
|be a pretty bad thing since there is apparently no form of encryption
|whatsoever in the packets. Please correct me if I am wrong.

That's what ssh was designed for. I use slogin/ssh from my unix machine
at work to home, and F-Secure/SSH from my home Win/95 to my linux box.
I'm also going to get a switch someday ... I want to run 100baseT on
the local network but need to feed the cable modem at 10mb.

You MUST assume that your worst enemy is reading your every command. On
several of our servers we have disabled the 'r' commands and telnet. I
don't want anyone to forget and login as root on a network as open as
this one.

------------------------------

From: Mason Wright <mas...@qnet.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Which 56K modem to buy?
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 19:27:50 -0700

My US Robotics x2 external works without a flaw.

Mason

------------------------------

From: Christopher Mitchell <rea...@lightstream.net>
Subject: networking over an null-modem with windows 3.1
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 22:44:13 -0400

I just switch over to linux about two months ago. I heard that you can
network two computer with a null-modem. My wife computer was windows
3.1 and also wants to go on the internet at the same time I on the
internet. Is there away to net her computer to my computer that her
have access to the internet too. If so, please tell me how....

Christopher Mittchell (rea...@lightstream.net)

------------------------------

From: Todd Graham Lewis <tle...@mindspring.net>

Subject: Re: @Home Network and Linux Networking

Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 02:52:43 -0400

It sounds as if your setup would be no different than a normal LAN setup,
which jives with what I've heard of @home's and others' cable-modem
setups.

1) Make sure that all your info is correct.
2) Do a "tcpdump -n -i eth0" and make sure that the traffic passing your
wire is of the same network as your config info would indicate.
3) Post the following to this newsgroup:

PROGRAM OUTPUT
==============
# ifconfig -a
# netstat -in
# netstat -rn
# arp -an

FILES
=====
/etc/resolv.conf

Your problem should be easily soluble given some effort.

--
Todd Graham Lewis Manager of Web Engineering MindSpring Enterprises
(800) 719-4664, x2804 Linux! tle...@mindspring.net

------------------------------

From: Todd Graham Lewis <tle...@mindspring.net>

Subject: Re: 3C900 Netword card problems
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 02:56:18 -0400

On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Marc Jourdeuil wrote:

| Linux is unable to select the port on my network card the network is
| connected to (AUI 10BASE5). It tries 10BASET, then 2, then stops.
(...)
| I have seen something that may help:
(...)
| Solution: The 3c503 AUI port can be selected at boot-time with 0.99pl12
| and later. The selection is overloaded onto the low bit of the
| currently- unused dev->rmem_start variable, so a boot-time parameter of:
|
| LILO: linux ether=0,0,0,1,eth0
(...)
| With kernels 1.3.42 and newer, you can specify the AUI port when loading
| as a module as well. Just append xcvr=1 to the insmod command line along
| with your i/o and irq values.
|
| If anyone has a solution, it would be much appreciated.

Dude, you answered your own question here. What's the problem? Does
adding the above-cited parameter to {lilo,loadlin,insmod} not work? Have
you tried?

--
Todd Graham Lewis Manager of Web Engineering MindSpring Enterprises
(800) 719-4664, x2804 Linux! tle...@mindspring.net

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From: dani...@linux.stt.it (Daniele Carbonetti)
Subject: STT-Mailgate: comp.os.linux.networking
Date: 1 Aug 1997 00:10:17 +0200

All the newsgroups of the *.linux.* hierarchy are now reachable via
mailing-list (news<->mail gateway).
It is also available a newsgroups' archive on ftp://linux.stt.it

For more info about these gateways, (un)subscription and use, please
send an email to dani...@linux.stt.it with "mailgate-en" as Subject.

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dani...@linux.stt.it - STT - Sviluppo Tecnologie Telematiche Avanzate
http://linux.stt.it - For more info: finger dani...@linux.stt.it

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From: kies...@terracom.net (Robert Kiesling)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Need REAL VT emmulator
Date: 31 Jul 1997 23:42:26 GMT

In article <5rkv9c$dvo$1...@Nntp1.mcs.net>, James W. Barr
<jb...@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> wrote:

| I have recently plunged into the Linux world, and so far, it is GREAT. My
| only stumbling block is the apparent lack of a good VT terminal emmulator.
| What I am looking for is an X Windows-based terminal program that offers
| both 80 column as well as 132 column display (switchable using the
| standard VAX "$SET TERMINAL /WIDTH=132" command. This means that when you
| go into 132 column mode, the font gets narrower. In addition, I cannot
| figure out how to map DEC's famous "DO" key. Obviously, the PC keyboard
| is layed out differently, but "Reflections" has the option of displaying a
| small graphical keyboard that you can use to access the more esoteric
| keys. I can't believe that I am the only one who is trying to make a
| Linux X-based system act like a real VT terminal, and as such, there is
| probably a man page or a FAQ out there somewhere that has all I am looking
| for (I hope!). So, please don't flame me for asking, just point me in
| the right direction!
|

Kermit inside an xterm does a credible job of vt100 emulation. You can
even get it to recognize the VAX control sequence, and switch to a
narrower font if you really need it to. It also comes with some sample
config files which emulate various vtxxx modes.

and, it's free.

HTH,

Robert

Robert_A....@macline.com
kies...@terracom.net

...No writing gig too small...

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From: an...@hippo.proxyon.imp.com (Andreas Gutzwiller)
Subject: Re: demand-dial PPP?
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:10:50 GMT

Pablo Halpern <phal...@truffle.ma.ultranet.com> wrote:
|Is there any way to configure Linux ppp to dial-up when an client
|application tries to connect and then hang-up if there are no open

I think "diald" can do this. You shoud find it on every Linux-site

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From: xsco...@wwa.com (Scott W. Petersen)
Subject: Re: How can I check if a card is operating at 100Mbits
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 02:54:46 GMT

On Mon, 28 Jul 1997 14:18:42 -0700, Zafer Kadi <kg...@imap1.asu.edu>
wrote:

|
|Hello,
|
|I just installed LINUX (RedHat4.2) on my 2 PC (PentiumPro), that are
|coinnected through a switch that allows 100Mbits Full Duplex .
|
|I used RedHat's "Boomerang" driver to initalize my 3COM
|PCI EtherLink XL Base-TX 905 card .
|
|When I type : ifconfig
|
|It replies as 10Mbits nethowrk .
|
|How can I test if I am connected at 100Mbits/s and full duplex.
|
|ping -s 40000
|
|Gives me about 15 ms time , which is almost 20Mbits/s
|How can make sure that driver or the kernel is also not getting on the
|way in communicating at top speed : 100Mbits/s full-duplex?
|[root@pentium4 /]# ping -s 40000 pentium2
|PING pentium2.emissary (172.22.22.12): 40000 data bytes
|40008 bytes from 172.22.22.12: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=15.1 ms
|40008 bytes from 172.22.22.12: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=14.6 ms
|40008 bytes from 172.22.22.12: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=14.6 ms
|40008 bytes from 172.22.22.12: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=14.9 ms
|40008 bytes from 172.22.22.12: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=14.6 ms
|
|--- pentium2.emissary ping statistics ---
|5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
|round-trip min/avg/max = 14.6/14.7/15.1 ms
|[root@pentium4 /]#
|
|Any simple utility that can tell me what my connection is :
|
|Here is dump form ifconfig
|
|eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:0A:32:0C
| inet addr:172.22.22.14 Bcast:172.22.22.31 Mask:255.255.255.224

| UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

| RX packets:2114 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
| TX packets:4380 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
| Interrupt:10 Base address:0xff00
|
|Thank You!
|
|------------------------------------------------------------------
| Zafer Kadi
| ka...@asu.edu Computing Commons, 3S74, ASU
| (602) 965-5626 Tempe, AZ 85287-0101
|------------------------------------------------------------------
|
I thought that card had 2 lights on the back. One for 10 and one for
100.

Scott - N9SLA

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 22:34:49 -0700
From: rse...@ibm.net
Reply-To: rse...@ibm.net
Subject: 8bit clean ISP and PPP

I just changed ISP (to IBM WorldNet) and am trying to get PPP
and CHAT to work again. The dial up and login seems to go OK
but then pppd terminates because the "serial line is not 8bit
clean" (bit 7 always zero)... taken from /var/log/messages.

I've tried a few things with stty and setserial... no luck.

Is there anything I can do to wash away the sins of an unclean
IBM ISP ? Is this in the hands of a higher power ?

Help... and thanks in advance... Randy

------------------------------

From: ms <msch...@sherbtel.net>
Subject: Anyone recommend a telnetd?
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 23:30:37 -0500

Hi folks. I've got a background in Unix, but this is my first
time setting up Linux dial-up networking. I'm actually a subnet
of my own connecting my ethernet to the 'net using amateur packet
radio, but I've got antenna problems at the moment so I'm dialing
in at the moment.

Here's my problem (and it happens both on dial-up and on packet).
My telnet daemon slams shut the connection when (it appears) I
attempt to connect from a site that does not have a published
name on DNS.

This is very irritating because I work at a site that does not
firewall and does not publish domain names for internal addresses.

I have Slackware 3.2 and I can't seem to find the source code for
the telnet daemon. Can anyone confirm if this is in fact why the
connection slams shut from certain machines and not others. Can
anyone recommend an alternate or best telnet daemon? Failing that
can anyone direct me to the source code! ;-)

Thanks in advance. Please post to the group or e-mail me at
msch...@sherbtel.net

(I apologize -- I'm using Netscape for news reader right now - ugh!)

------------------------------

From: Tom Elsesser <tels...@gatecom.com>
Subject: Re: Opinions Wanted: Which OS?

Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 00:42:09 -0400

cbbr...@hex.net wrote:
|
| So in short, money is a non-issue here.
|
| I've got a few links to Linux-based financial and manufacturing
| software; see:
| <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/finances.html>
|
| You may find it more rewarding to move to a new package (e.g.
| options 2-4); the move may get you functionality you don't have
| now. It certainly makes it feel better to pay $20K to actually
| get something you don't already have.
|
| More importantly, that $20K to "fix" the Y2K problem may miss a
| few bugs; there's always some complexity in these systems that
| gets missed.
|
| If you find Linux-based software that I *haven't* listed, please
| let me know. No doubt there's some SCO-based software that has
| been ported to Linux, but the port not heavily publicized.

| --
| Christopher B. Browne, cbbr...@hex.net, chris_...@sdt.com
| PGP Fingerprint: 10 5A 20 3C 39 5A D3 12 D9 54 26 22 FF 1F E9 16
| URL: <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/>
| Q: What does the CE in Windows CE stand for? A: Caveat Emptor...

Christopher,
It's not that money is a non-issue, as much as I have found that to
be how much I'm going to have to spend to do exactly what I'm doing
now. So yes, if I have to spend the bucks, I'm going to get a package
that can do more than we can now. The only software we have now that
will be missed is our accounting software, SBT, which is a very slick
program. It does have an upgrade, but not for Unix.

I found a company on your site that does manufacturing software (shop
floor control, costing, etc.) for Unix, possibly linux. Thanks a bunch
for the tip.

--
Tom Elsesser

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:07:37 -0700
From: Herry Tedja <hte...@geocities.com>
Subject: PPP still not working..Please help...

Hi I've been trying for the past 3 days on setting up my PPP connection, with no
success. I know I'm getting close though. The modem dials and after several
second I lost the connection.

This is the /var/log/messages I am getting:
Jul 31 20:38:52 cliff kernel: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation)
Jul 31 20:38:52 cliff kernel: PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995
Caldera, Inc.
Jul 31 20:38:52 cliff kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
Jul 31 20:38:58 cliff kernel: registered device ppp0
Jul 31 20:38:58 cliff pppd[2278]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Jul 31 20:38:58 cliff pppd[2278]: Using interface ppp0
Jul 31 20:38:58 cliff pppd[2278]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
Jul 31 20:38:59 cliff pppd[2278]: Serial line is looped back.
Jul 31 20:38:59 cliff pppd[2278]: Connection terminated.
Jul 31 20:38:59 cliff pppd[2278]: Exit.
Jul 31 20:40:52 cliff kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline successfully unregistered

Please help

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From: jf...@caldera.com (Jim Freeman)
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.ipx
Subject: SPX - Tests/Testers sought
Date: 1 Aug 1997 02:03:56 -0600

An SPX driver for Linux 2.0.29 is available for testing from
ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/stuff/spx-2.0.29.tgz

This software implements the (SPP-derived) Sequenced Packet
eXchange (SPX) protocol as specified in
NetWare SPX Services
Specification, Semantics and API
Revision: 1.00
Date: February 9, 1993

which was obtained from the public archive
ftp://ftp.novell.com/pub/updates/napi/cltsdk1e/spxspc.exe

SPX is the connection-oriented counterpart to IPX's datagram service.
Novell printing, remote console, and other sundry services utilize SPX.

Caveat emptor - this is not ready for prime-time. It needs real-world
experience to help it grow up. It needs plenty of code clean-up, bullet-
proofing, debugging, and tightening up. If you'd like to help out, here's
what to do:

1) Download it.
2) Un-tar it - there will be 2 patch files:
ipx.patch - patches IPX to accomodate SPX
spx.patch - SPX proper
cd /usr/src/linux, patch -p1 < [wherever.you.put.it]/ipx.patch
patch -p1 < [wherever.you.put.it]/spx.patch
3) Config and compile your 2.0.29 kernel. Answer Y to modules support,
Y or M to IPX, M to SPX.
4) insmod spx.o

Repeat, this is alpha code as it hasn't been tested much, so take
appropriate precautions. The code is very blabby (keeps syslog busy).

Anyone is invited to comment, critique, debug, develop any aspect of
this software (design, coding, docs, tests, applications, ...).

jf...@caldera.com
--
Jim Freeman
jf...@caldera.com

------------------------------

From: cfc...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Chung Chiew Farn)
Subject: Re: Cable Modem - What are the problems that come with it?
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 02:17:35 GMT

In article <33dddc4d...@news.up.net>,
Jeff Volckaert <b...@voyager.net> wrote:
|The main problems I had were gettings IP Masq working. Mostly it was
|forgetting how the old kernel compiles worked (i.e. make zlilo) and
|following the redhat instructions. I did have to install a second
|ethernet card and download/compile dhcpcd from sunsite.
|
|BTW, it was well worth the trouble. The modem is blazing.
What about security-wise problems? Judging by the layout of the connection
to your ISP (token ring form), how much more unsafe would it be compared
to connecting with a phone line? Since all your packets are sent around
for anyone to read....

Also, (I'm not sure about this), if you initiate a telnet connection,
everything is sent in cleartext right? (includes my password). That'd
be a pretty bad thing since there is apparently no form of encryption
whatsoever in the packets. Please correct me if I am wrong.

regards,
CF

------------------------------

From: Ramiro Estrugo <rest...@rem.fateware.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,linux.dev.kernel
Subject: Re: Netscape hangs during startup - kernel BUG ?
Date: 03 Aug 1997 01:21:57 -0700

ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.02/4.02b7/english/unix/linux20/

-re

"Micheal D.Ales" <ma...@micro.ti.com> writes:

| Where you folks pickup netscape from. I was searching last
| night and couldn't find what I needed.
|
| I have the slackware 3.2 release.

------------------------------

From: mct <m...@rust.net>
Subject: Cable Modem
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 23:37:47 -0400
Reply-To: m...@rust.net

When Cable Modem becomes avaliable in my area (within the next couple of
months) I would like to configure my Linux network to use this, and take
the place of my ISDN. I'm a cheepskate, so I use IP_MASQUERADING to
route packets to all the other machines.
This may be casting stones, but would I be able to achieve this with
cable modem...?, -->TCP/IP<-- If so, the throughput I herd was
<=1.5Mbps? is this true.
Has anyone tryed this yet? Or have any Ideas?
Thanks
Pat Donahue
m...@rust.net

------------------------------

From: Urs Thuermann <u...@isnogud.escape.de>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.dev.admin
Subject: Re: Puzzle, How to dump a drive through parallel port to another computer?
Date: 29 Jul 1997 23:14:17 +0200

Jason Uhlenkott <jaso...@usa.net> writes:

| I'm not sure if this will work or not, because the hard drive devices
| are block devices instead of regular files. But it's worth a try.

It will work that way.

| If nothing else, then maybe you could export it via nfs and do
| something like this:
|
| destination-machine# mount source-machine:/ /mnt
| destination-machine# cat /mnt/dev/hda1 >/dev/hda1

This won't work, however. You have to read /dev/hda-whatever on that
machine the disk is installed in. Otherwise the destination machine
sees the special block device's major/minor number and tries to talk
to a driver in it's own kernel.

urs

------------------------------

From: vuk...@vuksan.ne.mediaone.net (Vladimir Vuksan)
Subject: Re: Setting up Linux as a Print Server (How?)
Date: 3 Aug 1997 05:26:43 GMT

In article <5rvq1r$q...@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com>, Jennifer Evans wrote:
| I'm running version 2.0 of Slackware 96 LINUX in a production environment as a BOOTP server.
|I'd like to make it into a Print Server as well.
|
| What steps do I need to take to make this happen? (I am familiar with networking, subnet
|masks, etc, so the answer can be fairly technical). Thanks!!

You could try looking into Samba, http://samba.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba

Vladimir

------------------------------

From: Guenther Angerbauer <g.ange...@techcom.co.at>
Subject: Diald with Zyxel 2864I
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:56:09 +0200
Reply-To: g.ange...@techcom.co.at

We have one installation with
a Linux Red Hat 3.03 and a 2.0.18 Kernel.

A diald is configured to make the ppp-connection to the ISP.

Now we want to change the V.34 modem which worked fine for
a long time to an ISDN-Modem which is a zyxel elite 2864I.

The problem is that the chat-Script now fails just when starting it.
The logged message lines are as follows:

diald: Running connect.
diald: connect script failed
chat: Cant get terminal parameters: Not a typewriter.

Does anybody can provide some hints for us.

We dont think its a problem of initialization or the speed on
the async line. There must be a problem with the modem before.

setserial /dev/cua1 spd_vhi
setserial /dev/cua1 normal

has also no effect in the behavior of the error messages.

If we use the minicom program the communication with the modem is ok
and we can adjust every speed we like.

Thank you very much.

Ing. Guenther Angerbauer

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A-4020 Linz/Austria, Europaplatz 6
TEL: ++43 732 600610 18
FAX: ++43 732 600610 9
E-MAIL: g.ange...@techcom.co.at
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From: "Leander M. Berwers" <lea...@glasshouse.be>
Subject: Invalid ipfwadm accounting figures (?)
Date: 25 Jul 1997 08:28:39 GMT

Hello group

Please help me aout with this. How is it possible that a complete subnet
has less traffic than some workstations within that subnet? One example
(the subnet .0/28 has 399.7 MB traffic, while the sum of the workstations
is over 420.0 MB).

IP accounting rules
pkts bytes dir prot source destination
ports
1062340 399716115 i/o all ***.***.***.0/28 0.0.0.0/0 n/a
94788 7392004 i/o all ***.***.***.1 0.0.0.0/0 n/a
26461 2902454 i/o all ***.***.***.8 0.0.0.0/0 n/a
198197 63715659 i/o all ***.***.***.9 0.0.0.0/0 n/a
20492 12442154 i/o all ***.***.***.10 0.0.0.0/0 n/a
378223 133839307 i/o all ***.***.***.11 0.0.0.0/0 n/a
157084 111045043 i/o all ***.***.***.12 0.0.0.0/0 n/a
321074 122854363 i/o all ***.***.***.13 0.0.0.0/0 n/a

And these are the rules:

ipfwadm -A -f
ipfwadm -A -a -b -S 194.119.230.0/28
ipfwadm -A -a -b -S 194.119.230.1
ipfwadm -A -a -b -S 194.119.230.8
ipfwadm -A -a -b -S 194.119.230.9
ipfwadm -A -a -b -S 194.119.230.10
ipfwadm -A -a -b -S 194.119.230.11
ipfwadm -A -a -b -S 194.119.230.12
ipfwadm -A -a -b -S 194.119.230.13
ipfwadm -A -a -b -S 194.119.230.28

Regards
Leander

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Subject: Linux-Networking Digest #321

Linux-Networking Digest #321, Volume #6 Sun, 3 Aug 97 10:13:25 EDT

Contents:
Re: Ethernet Hardware Addresses (Todd Graham Lewis)
Re: Anyone recommend a telnetd? (rod)
Automatic PPP connect with modem call? ("John W. Terrell")
Routing LINUX > WINDOWS3.11 > INTERNET (Joachim Schulz)
Masquerading as who you really are? (Rich Paul)
Perl on Linux net access to Oracle...? (Darrell Berry)
Re: @Home Network and Linux Networking (Joe Brooks)
Re: autodialing ppp (Eric Schenk)
Re: POP3d lock error (rod)
Re: MacGate, LocalTalk to IP GateWay for Linux (Linas Vepstas)
Networking ("Mark Edwards")
Re: UUCP & Serial ports (Robert Kiesling)
Re: ipfwadm and local net (Bernard M. Piller)
Disconnect from foreign machine!!! (Terrance K W Lai)
Connecting Linux to Windows NT 4.0 via PPP ("Dale S.Laushman")
Re: How to mount the vfat32 (Goofy)
Help - Linux to Win 95 connexion ("Steve Pratt")
sendmail (Rob Drummond)
Learn the SECRET to Attract Women Easily (Want More Dates???)

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From: Todd Graham Lewis <tle...@mindspring.net>

Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Ethernet Hardware Addresses

Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 02:59:40 -0400

On 2 Aug 1997, Keith Burdis wrote:

| Zack Williams (z...@u.arizona.edu) wrote:
| : How do I find the hardware address of my Ethernet Card?
| : Is it written on the card? Hidden somewhere in the /proc fs?
|
| You should be able to see your hardware address in all the blurb that
| scrolls past when you boot up linux. Once you have booted, you can type :
|
| dmesg

There's a great program called "ifconfig" which will show this as well:

# ifconfig -a
(...)
eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:33:24:F7:AE
(...)

--
Todd Graham Lewis Manager of Web Engineering MindSpring Enterprises
(800) 719-4664, x2804 Linux! tle...@mindspring.net

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From: ser...@net47.ont.com (rod)
Subject: Re: Anyone recommend a telnetd?
Date: 3 Aug 1997 07:08:14 GMT
Reply-To: dav...@davids.psyberlink.net

ms, msch...@sherbtel.net journeyed into
another dimension with:
>

>Here's my problem (and it happens both on dial-up and on packet).
>My telnet daemon slams shut the connection when (it appears) I
>attempt to connect from a site that does not have a published
>name on DNS.
>
>This is very irritating because I work at a site that does not
>firewall and does not publish domain names for internal addresses.
>
>I have Slackware 3.2 and I can't seem to find the source code for
>the telnet daemon. Can anyone confirm if this is in fact why the

My opinion's concerning slow death for companies with half-assed
dns aside, the problem isn't telnetd. Most likely, you have telnetd
wrapped with the tcpwrappers. Check /etc/inetd.conf and see if
it looks like:

telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd

If so, edit /etc/hosts.allow and add the line:

in.telnetd:mydumb.co.ip.addr:ALLOW

in.telnetd:mydumb.co.net.:ALLOW

as in 192.168.1. for example, to cover the whole thing.

killall -HUP inetd

that's it.

You can also do subnets or cidr blocks with something like:

in.telnetd:192.168.1.0/255.255.224.0:ALLOW

see hosts_access(5).

drs
--
Would you put the worlds best wooden
wagon wheels on your car? Then why
buy 56k anti-technology?

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From: "John W. Terrell" <jter...@metatools.com>
Subject: Automatic PPP connect with modem call?
Date: 25 Jul 1997 18:34:40 GMT

I've seen this explained somewhere but I can't find the source. Basically
I want to be able to call my modem, have the modem detect the incoming
call, then start an PPP connection shortly after the call is attempted. I
want to be able to get my system connected remotely in this way by just
dialing the line my modem is on, then hanging up after the modem answers.
Where can I get info on this procedure??

Thanks...

John W. Terrell
jter...@pacbell.net

------------------------------

From: Joachim Schulz <achi...@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: Routing LINUX > WINDOWS3.11 > INTERNET
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 21:03:31 +0200

Hello!

I want to send packages from my LINUX machine (486 ISA, 3Com, ethernet
card) to my provider via a router which runs under MSDOS WfW 3.11. I
have a dialout connection (ISDN) to my provider.

Is it possible to use a MSDOS machine as a router while working under
LINUX?

The connect on the MSDOS machine itself are provided via wispa - paket
driver for windows and trumpet winsock as the tcp/IP stack.

I like to trigger a connection to the provider, if there are requests,
which can't besolved locally!

I know, or at least i believe that this should be possible in principal
since we are living in a heterogen computer world :)

Both computer have an ethernet card (3Com 3c509 isa) and they are
connected with a BNC cabel!

Please reply by email, if possible.
Thanks

Joachim

------------------------------

From: Rich Paul <rich...@hotmail.com>
Subject: Masquerading as who you really are?
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 09:32:54 -0400

I've got a LAN at home, with two WindBlows 95 boxes attached to a Linux
box, and the Linux box connected to an ISDN modem and an ISP, in that
order.

The ISP was kind enough to allocate three static ISP for my three boxes,
but neither one of us can figure out how to get packets to them.

I had them set up for masquerading before, and it worked OK, except for
the general limitations of ip_masquerading ... any suggestions?

Regards,
Rich

P.S. Please cc me with responses ... I tend to miss things in the group
at times.

------------------------------

From: darr...@hhcl.com (Darrell Berry)
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.lang.perl.modules
Subject: Perl on Linux net access to Oracle...?
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 11:24:20 +0000

Our Oracle 7 servers run on Solaris 2.5+ and NT...I want to connect to
them using Perl 5 on a Linux Slackware 3 machine...

Looking thru the CPAN database driver and interface modules, it seems
these will only work if there's a prekxisting Oracle install on the client
machine (with SQL*Net etc already installed)...given that there's no
Oracle release for Linux ;-) is there any way to do what I want to do?

thanks!

------------------------------

From: Joe Brooks <JBr...@Home.com>
Subject: Re: @Home Network and Linux Networking

Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 22:48:46 -0700
Reply-To: JBr...@Home.com

I have the exact same problem as yours...:-(

I was hoping you have figured out what was wrong or better yet how do
you fix it... :-)

Please let me know, thanking you in advance

JBr...@Home.net

Matt Hall wrote:

------------------------------

From: er...@rekk.dna.lth.se (Eric Schenk)
Subject: Re: autodialing ppp
Date: 1 Aug 1997 16:49:45 GMT

Huh? Diald works fine with either static IP's or dynamic IP's.
You do have to do a bit more work to configure it, but it works.
That's why I gave diald the "dynamic" configuration option!

--
Eric Schenk www: http://www.dna.lth.se/~erics
Dept. of Comp. Sci., Lund University email: Eric....@dna.lth.se
Box 118, S-221 00 LUND, Sweden fax: +46-46 13 10 21 ph: +46-46 222 96 38

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From: ser...@net47.ont.com (rod)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: POP3d lock error

Date: 3 Aug 1997 07:37:44 GMT
Reply-To: dav...@davids.psyberlink.net

Edward Sargisson, esa...@pobox.com journeyed into
another dimension with:

>On one account after the pass command POP3 returns something like:

>-ERR Already being read /var/spool/mail/dom
>

>From examining the source code this error messages seems to be caused by
>the open() call for /var/spool/mail/dom failing.

Something like:

find / -user username

find / -name '.pop*'

might help solve the problem.

drs
--
Would you put the worlds best wooden
wagon wheels on your car? Then why
buy 56k anti-technology?

------------------------------

From: Linas Vepstas <li...@fc.net.just.say.no.to.spam>
Subject: Re: MacGate, LocalTalk to IP GateWay for Linux
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 02:57:32 -0500

Jay Schulist wrote:
Hi Jay,
Please excuse the stupid question, but ... what in the world is this?
whats it good for? And why would I need it?

I have a mac on an ethernet network, and a bunch of linux boxes. I
have a laser printer on the net. I am PO'ed that the mac cannot talk
tcpip to a stupid laser printer. Will your gateway help with this?

I'm PO'ed that I can't find an NFS server for the mac (I want to
automatically back up it's file system). Will the gate help with that?

Can I suggest that you write a gentle tutorial for the non-programmer as
to what I need a localtalk-to-tcp gateway for, and "what it does".

--linas

| I am pleased to announce that MacGate is ready for testing.
|
| MacGate is a LocalTalk to IP gateway which works entirely in userspace.
| One also does not need any other LocalTalk/AppleTalk routers to use
| MacGate. Simply start MacGate up and then your LocalTalk Macs are reachable
| through your IP network.
|
| MacGate can be picked up at
| ftp://ftp.coredcs.com/users/onyx/MacGate-0.01.tar.gz
|
| Or I have a web page with a bunch of information about MacGate and the
| program at http://www.coredcs.com/~onyx/MacGate.html

--
Linas Vepstas -- li...@fc.net.no.spam.please -- http://linas.org/

------------------------------

From: "Mark Edwards" <medw...@greenside.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Networking
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 23:44:48 GMT

I am attempting to set up internet access for a small network at a youth
group
close to my home. We will probably use a linux box as an internet
gateway/firewall. I need to lay my hands on some ip blocking software that
can
block access to certain sites from inside the gateway. This is to stop the
young kiddies getting their minds warped by all the nasty internet sites
with
dodgy material that is far beyond their understanding... Is there any such
software available and if so - what and where. The blocking software would
probably need to be self-refreshing from a particular source site (i.e. the

list of no-no sites would be updated from this particular site and
downloaded
to client machines periodically.) I am keen not to block at browser level,
for
various reasons, which is why I want to go for a gateway solution.

I am familiar with ipfwadm, and already have a masquerading firewall set up

here at home. I have had a few suggestions about using a squid cache,
though
I suppose the biggest missing jigsaw piece is the list of dodgy sites...

If anyone cares to suggest or comment, I'd be most grateful.

Regards,

Mark Edwards.

------------------------------

From: Robert Kiesling <kies...@terracom.net>
Subject: Re: UUCP & Serial ports
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 02:47:05 -0500

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Lance Togar quoth:

| I've just installed Debian 3.1 (2.0.30 kernel). I use a UUCP dialup
| connection for mail but would like to use the same serial port for
| logins. This *should* be simple but hasn't proved to be. Currently, I
| have no /etc/inittab processes connected to the serial port that I'm
| using for UUCP dialup (ttyS0). What I want is:
|
| Some getty like program that will leave the port alone until CD is
| true from the modem. That's it.... I've tried uugetty & mgetty with no
| luck.
|

Why would you want to use the same serial port? The standard method is to
have getty(1) respawn a login process until a call comes in. I believe
there's no standard way to spawn a login process simply when CD is
asserted. It would require an IRQ to be generated, which can result in a
general protection fault. If you could find someone to write a device
driver for your hardware you might be able to do it.

| Any suggestions are welcome.
|
| BTW, Debian 1.3 is *great*. Installation was a breeze & it's very
| comfortable to use. However, each of the 2 times I've tried to upgrade
| a Debian installation in place, I've ended up doing a reinstall. The
| upgrades resulted in trashed configuration files and the last one (1.2
| > 3.1) broke Samba (nmbd specifically).

LSL has just released a new Debian upgrade, 1.3.1, which is supposed to
do that. Talk to them at sa...@lsl.com. But you did back up your /etc
subdir, didn't you?

HTH

Robert (Bob)

| ..
| ..
|
|

------------------------------

From: ho...@rrr.net_NOSPAM (Bernard M. Piller)

Subject: Re: ipfwadm and local net
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 13:35:15 +0200

Dave Platt <dpl...@tvsoft.com> wrote:

| I'd guess that one, or both of your machines are attempting to use
| DNS, in order to identify the other. This is causing packets to be
| sent to an off-site DNS server (either your ISP's, or the DNS root
| servers).

I knew the problem with DNS. My machines on the Ethernet are Macs
192.168.1,x), they just should be able to access the Linux box
(192.168.1.1) without triggering an Internet connection.
I have the proxy connection turned off at the WWW clients.

Bernard

--
* bmp System Support Vienna, Austria *
* http://www.rrr.net/hoss Power is Macintosh *
* remove "_NOSPAM" from e-mail address for replies *

------------------------------

From: kw...@sclpinet.clp.com.hk (Terrance K W Lai)
Subject: Disconnect from foreign machine!!!
Date: 3 Aug 1997 11:45:37 GMT

Dear Linux guru,
I have Redhat 4.0 with kernel upgraded to 2.0.30. I found that whenever

I telnet to other machines and do a 'cat <a several 10k file>'. The

connection will cease and the message "Disconnect from foreign machine"
prints. This happens whatever the machine I telneted to. My machine is
a 486DX33 with network card 3COM 3c509. Another machine Pentinum 75 with
network card 3c590 running Redhat 4.0 with kernel 2.0.18 without the
problem.
Would anyone give me a clue so that I can fix it?

Thanks in advance
Best rgds,
Terrance

------------------------------

From: "Dale S.Laushman" <dsc...@viaservices.com>
Subject: Connecting Linux to Windows NT 4.0 via PPP
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 15:44:16 -0500

Why is this so difficult? I call into the TCP/IP enable, non MS-CHAP RAS
modem on my NT server with Linux PPP and
no negotiation happens over the modem. I have tried CHAP, PAP, and +ua on
pppd but all have failed. Any words of
wisdom??

Dale

dsc...@viaservices.com

------------------------------

From: bsam...@elvis.UCCS.edu (Goofy)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How to mount the vfat32
Date: 1 Aug 1997 04:06:26 GMT

Steve Brague (brag...@jhuapl.edu) wrote:
: > think that it still deals with long file names the same way though.

No. Vfat was a hack...pure and simple...fat32 does deal w/ the file
system in a fairly different way.

: > If
: > you have OSR2 (4.00.950b) then you might need a patch to deal with
: > fat32.

Only if you created your Win95 partition w/ the 4.00.950b fdisk.
Otherwise, you've got it installed on vfat. (and even then, you have to
select the option in fdisk to support fat32)

: correct way to mount the partition? The last thing I want to do is blow
: up my Win95b file system.

Hell...NT can't even read the fat32 stuff...but LINUX can...

*chuckle* One point for the hackers out there behind that one...

4.00.950b was an improvement for Winblows95...but until there is better
support for fat32...don't sweat it.

From the non-vanilla network world,

bryan

--
======================================================================
Bryan S. Sampsel Semper Fi!
Tact is for Weenies!!!

"640K ought to be enough for anybody" Bill Gates, 1981.
======================================================================
if (op_sys=="Win95") { | "Real programmers don't die--
free(op_sys); | they just GOSUB without RETURN"
op_sys="linux";} |
=============================(http://www.uccs.edu/~bsampsel/)=========
"And I would do anything for love, I'd run right into hell and back"

------------------------------

From: "Steve Pratt" <steve....@virgin.net>
Subject: Help - Linux to Win 95 connexion
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 14:20:15 +0100

I am trying to connect together via thin-ethernet, a P90 running linux, and
a P166 running Win95. The reason is to set up apache server on linux to
test and develop cgi scripts with Internet explorer, and netscape. I am
using slackware linux, and the book "Running linux" by Matt Welsh & Lar
Kaufman.
My problem seems to be that on boot to linux, the network shows
unreachable, I have tried a couple of linux kernels that show support for
my buslogic scsi, and ethernet cards (a 3-com).
Can anyone say if I'm trying to do something not allowed?
Any comments would be gratefully received.

Thanks
Steve Pratt

------------------------------

From: Rob Drummond <the...@worldlynx.net>
Subject: sendmail
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 19:38:44 -0400

I am having a provlem with sendmail, i can send internet email out ok,
but any incoming internet email gets intercepted by send mail and never
get routed, also, local messaging doesn't work, i am sitting behind a
firewall/ip router/masquerading box if that is any help. if anyone can
help email me at the...@worldlynx.net

Rob

------------------------------

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Subject: Linux-Networking Digest #322

Linux-Networking Digest #322, Volume #6 Sun, 3 Aug 97 15:13:35 EDT

Contents:
Re: Netscape hangs during startup - kernel BUG ? ("Micheal D.Ales")
Re: Cable Modem (Ed Clarke)
Re: ZMODEM errors under multi user mode (Manolo Soft)
Re: Need REAL VT emmulator (James Youngman)
Driver for IBM pcmcia token ring card (Johnny Tan)
Re: MicroImages X Server MI/X with Linux & Win95 (Charles R. Anderson)
not able to ping computer on my lan (Matt Dorre)
Re: Driver for IBM pcmcia token ring card (Helmut Griehl)
3c689 card problems (Helmut Griehl)
3c509b X 2? (Dug Birdzell)
Re: Redhat Network setup problems (Maarten van Rossen)
NAT goofiness with Netrek (JL Gomez)
Re: Disconnect from foreign machine!!! (Charles R. Anderson)
Satan patch (Mohammad Rizal Othman)
Re: Linux router HowTo (Joel Becker)
Re: Help - Linux to Win 95 connexion ("William R. Mattil")
Re: Which 56K modem to buy? (Steve Meisner)
Re: httpd setup is killing me! (James Lee)
Re: No more NFS mounting :-( (Mats Liljegren)
Re: ipfwadm and local net ("Mark Edwards")
DHCP Client Problem ("Brian F. Madigan")
Re: Which 56K modem to buy? (Andre Mermegas)
ppp & local network routing (wal...@pacbell.net.nospam)

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From: "Micheal D.Ales" <ma...@micro.ti.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,linux.dev.kernel
Subject: Re: Netscape hangs during startup - kernel BUG ?
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 08:21:58 -0500
Reply-To: ma...@micro.ti.com

Where you folks pickup netscape from. I was searching last
night and couldn't find what I needed.

I have the slackware 3.2 release.

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From: cla...@acheron.cilia.org (Ed Clarke)
Subject: Re: Cable Modem
Date: 3 Aug 1997 11:37:56 GMT

On Sat, 02 Aug 1997 23:37:47 -0400, mct <m...@rust.net> wrote:
|cable modem...?, -->TCP/IP<-- If so, the throughput I herd was
|<=1.5Mbps? is this true.
|Has anyone tryed this yet? Or have any Ideas?

Depends upon the modem. If it's asymetric it could be 43 megabits down
and 300 baud acoustic coupler phone line back. The Zenith modems are
500 kbs symetric or 4MBS symetric. Lan City is 10MBS symetric. Intel
is 43MBS asymetric (ISDN or telephone modem back). Don't know what
the Motorola modems do. The 1.5MBS sounds like a T1 line. That could
be the line from your cable company to the internet.

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From: Manolo Soft <con...@arrakis.es>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ZMODEM errors under multi user mode
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 17:05:34 +0200

I had EXACTLY the same problem. I think it's something about the
IDE drive or the IRQ's. The problem would be that in multi-user
mode the hard disk is accessed more times than in single user.
Sometimes, the IDE driver takes too much time to answer a request
and it blocks all other requests (among them the serial ports).
That would cause the problems.

There are two possible solutions to your problem

a) There is a way to avoid the IDE driver block the other IRG's.
It's by using 'hdparm' with the '-u1' parameter. But before doing
anything else READ ALL THE DOCUMENTATION. IT'S A VERY RISKY
OPERATION THAT MAY CAUSE SEVERE FILESYSTEM CORRUPTION. Some drives
and controllers have problems with this. Read the hdparm manual page
for details.

b) Using 'irqtune' to change priorities of IRQ's. I've not used it
and don't know the results.

Good luck

Manuel Constantino - MANOLO SOFT
Email: con...@arrakis.es

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From: James Youngman <JYou...@vggas.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Need REAL VT emmulator

Date: 30 Jul 1997 14:21:55 +0100

James W. Barr <jb...@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> writes:

| What I am looking for is an X Windows-based terminal program that offers
| both 80 column as well as 132 column display (switchable using the
| standard VAX "$SET TERMINAL /WIDTH=132" command. This means that
| when you

That's what Control-Mouse-2 is for in xterm (and there is a resource
for it so you can set this permanently, see the manpage).

| go into 132 column mode, the font gets narrower. In addition, I
| cannot

...except the font doesn't get narrower. The user could always use
Control-Mouse-3...

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From: Johnny Tan <ta...@pacific.net.sg>
Subject: Driver for IBM pcmcia token ring card
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 11:33:22 +0800

Anyone know where can I get the driver? Thanks!

Regards,

Johnny

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From: c...@angus.ind.WPI.EDU (Charles R. Anderson)
Subject: Re: MicroImages X Server MI/X with Linux & Win95
Date: 3 Aug 1997 16:30:56 GMT

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997 16:57:07 -0700, Ismet Kursunoglu <i...@loop.com> wrote:
|Hello,

[snip network description]

|It installed with no problem on Win95,and when I run it a large blue
|window comes up (Microimages X Server 800x600x24bit Build date :19 Mar
|1997) but I haven't a clue as to how to get the linux application to run
|on MI/X. I can telnet from Win95 to Linux no problem. The doucumentation
|says,
|
|"Once connected to the UNIX host, the TELNET session can be used to set
|the DISPLAY environment variable to the name of the Windows computer.
|(The Windows computer is assigned a name in the Network
|control panel.) The UNIX shell command to set this variable usually
|looks like this:
|
|
| setenv DISPLAY <Windows machine name>:0.0
|
|Once the DISPLAY environment variable is set, you can then launch your
|favorite X Window System client applications such as xterm or xclock.
|Then you will need to switch applications from your TELNET
|session to the MI/X Server and place the X Window System clients on the
|display. "
|
|When I do this from the Win95 box I get
|
|bash:setenv:command not found>
|I tried set DISPLAY=hostname:0.0
|
|and their was no complaint , but I still can't figure out what to do to
|display an X application in the Win95 X "program". And how and where do
|I "launch your favorite X Window System client applications " and
|"switch applications from your TELNET session to the MI/X Server and
|place the X Window System clients on the display" ?

The command "setenv" that they describe only works for csh or tcsh style
shells. Bash is a Bourne-style shell, so the equivalent command is:

export DISPLAY=hostname:0.0

After this, type "xterm &" or whatever at the bash prompt to start your X
programs. They should popup on the MI/X screen as a window outline (if
you are using the default TWM setup). Then just move the mouse to where
you want the window, and click to place it there. The window contents
will then appear and you can begin using the program.

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From: Matt Dorre <ge...@primenet.com>
Subject: not able to ping computer on my lan
Date: 3 Aug 1997 07:18:01 -0700

I am working on getting ip masquerading set up, and so far I seem to have
made a good deal of progress, the one part where I am stuck though, is the
actual communication between my computer, and the one I am trying to
masquerade.. here is my setup..

both computers have d-link isa ethernet cards (which I can load and
ifconfig just fine.) they are connected through a 3com 8 port hub. after
I run ifconfig on both machines, and set up the routing table on both
machines, I can have them ping themselves just fine. (my machine is
192.168.1.1, the other is 192.168.1.2) but they are not able to ping each
other.. here is my routing table:

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface

ts05.phx.primen * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 1 ppp0
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 3 eth0
localnet * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 4 lo
default ts05.phx.primen 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 40 ppp0

this is the table off of my computer (which will later be ther server for
ip masquerading) the one thing that does bother me is that I get the
feeling I should be declaring my machine as the gateway, however I always
seem to get an error when I try this on either machine. (If that is the
case maybe my syntax is just wrong, although on 192.168.1.2 /etc/gateways
does contain 192.168.1.1)

Anyway, any help is appreciated. :)

ge...@primenet.com

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From: Helmut Griehl <g...@sth.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject: Re: Driver for IBM pcmcia token ring card
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 18:55:53 +0000

Hi,

you can get the package at:
http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/home.html

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From: Helmut Griehl <g...@sth.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: 3c689 card problems
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 19:18:42 +0000

I have a linux laptop (Toshiba T2150CDS) with a 3C689 Token Link III
card from 3Com.
From the pcmcia howto I know that the card needs the address 0xa0-0xa27.
Does anybody have any idea how to find out which program is using the
address
needed by the card?
Everything else work fine: 3com 3c589D and a serial card

Every time I put in the card my laptop says:

Aug 3 18:12:52 laptop cardmgr[401]: initializing socket 1
Aug 3 18:12:52 laptop cardmgr[401]: socket 1: IBM Token Ring Adapter
Aug 3 18:12:52 laptop cardmgr[401]:
executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.0.18/pcmcia/ibmtr_cs.o'
Aug 3 18:12:52 laptop kernel: ibmtr_cs: RequestIO: Resource in use
Aug 3 18:12:52 laptop cardmgr[401]: get dev info on socket 1 failed: No
such device

But a cat on /proc/ioports says:
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0080-009f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : npu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0300-030f : 3c589_cs
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03e0-03e1 : i82365
03f0-03f5 : floppy
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)

Thanks and bye
Helmut

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From: Dug Birdzell <d...@ape.org>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: 3c509b X 2?
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 23:38:15 +0000

Hey everyone:

I am wondering if anyone has successfully gotten REd Hat to see 2 3c509b
ether cards. I've got ver 4.2 (probably kerne 2.0.30). When I set
conf.modules to:

alias eth0 3c509
alias eth1 3c509
options 3c509 io=0x300,0x340 irq=5,3

and lilo.conf:

append="reserve=0x300,32,0x340,32 ether=0,-1,eth0 ether=5,0x300,eth0
ether=3,0x340,eth1"

The OS fails to see either card, reporting insmod() errors. If I remove
the last line of conf.modules, the OS will see eth0 only. Has anyone
had this problem? I see in the how-to that
ether=0,0,eth0 and ether=0,0,eth1 in lilo.conf would help. also,
turning of PnP in the 3com config utility.
Finally, the how-to says that the card with the lower MAC address will
always end up being eht0. so, I guess if made sure the lower
MAC-addressed card was for eth0, that would help.

I am interested to hear from other users who have built this kind of
configuration. thanks!

Dug Birdzell
d...@ape.org

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From: m...@vr.xs4all.nl (Maarten van Rossen)
Subject: Re: Redhat Network setup problems
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 09:31:37 GMT
Reply-To: m...@vr.xs4all.nl

On Tue, 22 Jul 1997 15:18:55 GMT, net...@best.com (Mike Arya) wrote:

|Hi to all the gurus out there. I am very newto this Unix game, just
|started 2 -3 weeks ago.
|
|I have a simple network of two machines connected together in an
|Ethernet LAN via a hub and to the outside world
|thru a router and a CSU/DSU. The two machines are: a Redhat 4.2/Intel
|and a Windows for Workgroup 3.11.
|
|I can ping to and from between unix box and windows box. I can also
|ping to my router z.z.z.225, (z.z.z.??? is my network address) but I
|can't get to outside networks from the unix box. I can go out from the
|window box and cruise the "Net", read mail, ftp, ... NO problem!.
|
|Following is the snapshot of various files:
You left the most important thing out. What is the output of the route
command. (I think you will have to type route -n because dns resolving
isn't working)
Anyway i think there is a 80% change your default route is wrong or
doesn't exist.
Try this:
route del default
route add gw gateway_IP dev eth?

|message.
|
|Please tell me what is wrong. i am tearing my hair out.
|
|BTW, I am running Redhat 4.2 (just upgrade from 4.1). I also notice
|during booting that
|/dev/sda1, /sda5,6 and 8 have this message - "was not cleanly
|unmounted, forced check".
|and it takes a while to do whatever it is doing.
That means that your computer was reset without running shutdown
first. You should never use your power button or you reset button
while linux is running it can damage your file system!! You should run
the "shutdown -h now" or the "halt" command before turning your
computer off or the "shutdown -r now" or the "reboot" command to
reboot. Pressing alt-ctrl-del will also start the a reboot.

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From: j...@a-ko.enteract.com (JL Gomez)
Crossposted-To: rec.games.netrek
Subject: NAT goofiness with Netrek
Date: 3 Aug 1997 18:00:21 GMT
Reply-To: j...@enteract.com

I currently dual-boot between Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
and Debian Linux 1.3.1

I use an ISDN router which does Network Address Translation (NAT).
So that means I use the 192.168.1.0 subnet for my network. The router
gets a dynamic IP address everytime it connects.

The COW client under Linux bombs with a ghostbusting error. However,
the COW-lite client under NT works!

Anyone have any tips on getting the Linux client to work? And no,
turning off NAT is not an option.

Thanks for replying.

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From: c...@angus.ind.WPI.EDU (Charles R. Anderson)
Subject: Re: Disconnect from foreign machine!!!
Date: 3 Aug 1997 16:18:52 GMT

On 3 Aug 1997 11:45:37 GMT, Terrance K W Lai <kw...@sclpinet.clp.com.hk> wrote:

|Dear Linux guru,
| I have Redhat 4.0 with kernel upgraded to 2.0.30. I found that whenever
|I telnet to other machines and do a 'cat <a several 10k file>'. The
|connection will cease and the message "Disconnect from foreign machine"
|prints. This happens whatever the machine I telneted to. My machine is
|a 486DX33 with network card 3COM 3c509. Another machine Pentinum 75 with
|network card 3c590 running Redhat 4.0 with kernel 2.0.18 without the
|problem.
| Would anyone give me a clue so that I can fix it?
|
| Thanks in advance
| Best rgds,
| Terrance

I used to have the same problem under Slackware 3.0 and RedHat 4.0. When
I recently upgraded to RedHat 4.2, the problem went away. Here's what I
did to troubleshoot the problem:

|telnet localhost
login: blah
Password:

|ls -lR /

[lots of directory listings scroll by]

Before the upgrade, this used to dump me out of the telnet connection with
a "Connection closed by foreign host" message. The strange thing is, it
usually only happened from xterm's or my dumb terminal on ttyS1, not from
the linux console. This proved that it wasn't my ethernet that was the
problem, though. It also couldn't be telnetd, since the same thing
happened when telnetting to other (non-linux and linux) hosts. I was
puzzled about this for the longest time, since no one else I knew seemed
to be having this problem. Then, when I upgraded to RedHat 4.2, the
problem went away. After some investigation into the NetKit-B-0.9 SRPM
distributed with the new RedHat, I noticed that they had included the OLD
telnet source from NetKit 0.6! Something must be causing this problem in
the new telnet source from 0.9. I leave it to others to figure out what.

------------------------------

From: ri...@ew.mimos.my (Mohammad Rizal Othman)
Subject: Satan patch
Date: 2 Aug 1997 07:11:05 GMT

Can somebody help me with finding a Linux patch for Satan. I tried to
search it at sunsite under pub/Linux/system/security, but it was not
there. Can somebody give me the location that I can download this.

Thanks very much.

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From: Joel Becker <jl...@ocala.cs.miami.edu>
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 97 14:12:10 -0400
Subject: Re: Linux router HowTo

| > Would someone please point me to information on exactly how to set up Linux
| > to route packets from Ethernet out the PPP. I have tried about everything
| > with the route tables. The win95 machine pings the Ethernet card on the
| > Linux but nothing else.

Do you have IPFORWARDING compiled into the kernel? If not, the routing
tables can be fine, but the IP stack will not be allowed to pass packets
from one route to the other. They will die right there.

Joel

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From: "William R. Mattil" <wrma...@ix.netcom.com>

Subject: Re: Help - Linux to Win 95 connexion
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 09:38:19 -0500

Steve Pratt wrote:
|
| I am trying to connect together via thin-ethernet, a P90 running linux, and
| a P166 running Win95. The reason is to set up apache server on linux to
| test and develop cgi scripts with Internet explorer, and netscape. I am
| using slackware linux, and the book "Running linux" by Matt Welsh & Lar
| Kaufman.
| My problem seems to be that on boot to linux, the network shows
| unreachable, I have tried a couple of linux kernels that show support for
| my buslogic scsi, and ethernet cards (a 3-com).
| Can anyone say if I'm trying to do something not allowed?
| Any comments would be gratefully received.
|
| Thanks
| Steve Pratt

Hi Steve,

From what you have described, the problem is your linux box doesn't like
your NIC . You really didn't provide any info. What kind of NIC ?? 3Com
? yes, but 3Com what ??? It is bloody important. If you want help, you
have to be much more specific. Does dmesg tell you the NIC is found ??
Does infconfig confirm this ? Are there route(s) set up ??? Maybe you
could search dejanews with keywords: Linux, 3CXXX (whatever your NIC is)
and you would get an idea of what other people have done......

Bill
--
William R. Mattil .....| Fred Astaire wasn't so great......
wrma...@ix.netcom.com | Ginger had to do it all backwards
(972) 256-3219 ........| and in high heels

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From: Steve Meisner <smei...@cris.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Which 56K modem to buy?
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 22:20:41 -0400

Chris Warren wrote:
|
| I have given up getting my PnP version 1.0 modem to work.
| It was relatively slow anyway.
|
| I have decided to buy a 56kFlex modem. But I want to be sure
| the modem I get will be LINUX friendly. Please make
| suggestion if you believe you can help me decide.
|
| Reply by email or on the newsgroup.
|
| Thanks. And thanks for the suggestions on the PnP modem.

I tried a Motorola ModemSURFR 56K for a short time in my system. When
it worked, it was outstanding for performance. It is PnP and I set it
up to run on /dev/cua1 (COM2), but that caused conflicts resulting in
system hangs. Since returning it, I have spoken to Motorola tech
support. They said in non-PnP systems, their PnP BIOS causes conflicts
when set to use COM1 or COM2. Strange? Bottom line, with isapnptools
and set to use COM3 or COM4, the Motorola is a better value than USR.
--
"Don't steal, the Government hates competition!"
smei...@cris.com | http://www.cris.com/~Smeisner
Courtesy of Netscape and Linux 2.0 [running 2.0.30]

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From: James Lee <j...@c118618-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com>
Subject: Re: httpd setup is killing me!
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 11:21:01 -0700

You don't say which linux and httpd versions you are running. If your
not running a 2.0.xx (pref 30) linux kernal and httpd 1.5 or greater
your in trouble since the older linux kernals did not have some ipc
support required by httpd.

-- James

--
-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.. . -. .---- -.. -.. -.- -..-. .-- -....
James M. Lee j...@c118618-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com
Verilog Instructor
Author "Verilog Quickstart" ISBN 0-7923-9927-7
-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.. . -. .---- -.. -.. -.- -..-. .-- -....

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From: Mats Liljegren <mats.li...@ebc.ericsson.se>
Subject: Re: No more NFS mounting :-(
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 09:02:26 +0200

Nihad Mujkanovic wrote:
|
| Hello !
|
| I have hier two PCs running SuSE linux with kernel 2.0.25. At the beginning, I
| was able to mount volumes from one on another (per NFS), but since I once
| rebooted without unmounting the volume, it won't work any more. I tried to
| find a kind of lock-file, but there was nothing like that. Now, the remote PC
| reports simply "not allowed", although I (except rebooting without unmounting)
| didn't change ANYTHING in the configuration. Besides, smbmount won't work
| either on the remote PC.

This is strange. I once configured a low-end PC to act as a network
computer, and therefore had all its files either on RAM-disk (when
writing was needed) or on a NFS mount. We constantly used the Big Red
button without any mercy. Even used it just to provoke, and tested to
pull out the network cable at different occasions. Nothing caused any
errors, not even any hiccups. The server just waited until we
reconnected the network cable and continued.

At some occasions we used write permissions on the NFS mount, but we
didn't use Big Red at those times. Maybe your problem only occurs when
you have write permission enabled?

I'm sorry that I cannot answer your question, just wanted to say that a
read-only NFS mount is rock solid. We used kernel 2.0.x, where x is a
number I've forgotten...

/Mats

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From: "Mark Edwards" <medw...@greenside.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: ipfwadm and local net

Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 23:41:03 GMT

Is it ipfwadm that is starting the link,. or are you using something like
diald?

Mark

Bernard M. Piller <ho...@rrr.net_NOSPAM> wrote in article
<1997080118523817135@[192.168.1.2]>...

| I have a basic IP masquerading setup on my Linux box. What bothers me is
| that a connection to the Internet is triggered, even when the machines
| on the local network are talking to each other. How do I set up a rule,
| that ipfwadm only starts the connection when an address outside
| 192.168.1.x is accessed?
|

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From: "Brian F. Madigan" <bri...@cais.com>
Subject: DHCP Client Problem
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 19:31:45 -0400
Reply-To: bri...@cais.com

I have compiled and installed the dhcpcd-0.65 client on Linux.
Executing dhcpcd, however, produces only a "NO DHCPOFFER"
message in the system log. No files appear in /etc/dhcp, and ifconfig
doesn't show eth0.

With the same box running under Windows 95, a dhcp session is
automatically and successfully established, so I'm convinced the problem

is not in the hardware. The connection is through an Ethernet card
(3c509), then through an ADSL transceiver, then over the telephone line
to Bell Atlantic. The ethernet card has plug-and-play disabled. During

the Linux boot process, the 3c509 is recognized, and the IRQ, memory
address, and port are recognized properly. Networking is configured
into the kernel.

So it sounds like a software configuration issue. Any suggestions on
things to try would be greatly appreciated. I may be missing something
obvious.

Brian

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From: Andre Mermegas <amer...@monmouth.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Which 56K modem to buy?
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 20:05:11 -0400

Chris Warren wrote:

| I have given up getting my PnP version 1.0 modem to work.
| It was relatively slow anyway.
|
| I have decided to buy a 56kFlex modem. But I want to be sure
| the modem I get will be LINUX friendly. Please make
| suggestion if you believe you can help me decide.
|
| Reply by email or on the newsgroup.
|
| Thanks. And thanks for the suggestions on the PnP modem.

The Cardinal 56k modem works well in linux...i just
got one and had no
problems setting it up....its got jumpers on the card thats what you
should look for in
any modem you might be interested in for linux

------------------------------

From: wal...@pacbell.net.nospam
Subject: ppp & local network routing
Date: 3 Aug 1997 17:20:31 GMT
Reply-To: wal...@pacbell.net.nospam

I'm just about at my wits end, and need some help.

I just received an allocation of IP addresses for my local network from my ISP.
I have a dedicated dialup ppp connection to them, and several boxes on my own
LAN. My ppp connection dials in just fine and can see internet hosts. Based on
the information my ISP gave me, my internal LAN can see each other just fine.
However, the ppp connection and the LAN can't see each other.

Information my ISP gave me:
NETWORK=206.14.225.32
NETMASK=255.255.255.240
BROADCAST=206.14.225.47
my PPP IP=206.14.225.33

My ppp starts up with:
pppd /dev/modem 57600 crtscts defaultroute 206.14.225.33:206.14.225.47 netmask 255.255.255.240

After it starts up, my route looks fine (I believe)
Destination GW Genmask Flags MSS Window Use Iface
206.14.225.47 * 255.255.255.255 UH 296 0 0 ppp0
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 20 lo
default 206.14.225.47 * UG 296 0 280 ppp0

At this point, I'd like to startup my ethernet card. I've been manually typing in:
ifconfig eth0 206.14.225.34 broadcast 206.14.225.47 netmask 255.255.255.240

Then I come to the routing issue. If I do:

route add -net 206.14.225.32 netmask 255.255.255.240

I can see my internal network/LAN just fine and can ping on my linux box to the
eth0. However, I can't see my ppp connection or ping it.

If I do:

route add 206.14.225.34

Then my ppp and eth0 can see each other, but can't see any machines on the local
network LAN.

I came to the conclusion that possibly the problem is that ppp0 needs to be
routed with the "-net 206.14.225.32" option in the defaultroute, but have no
clue as to if this is true or not. It just made sense to me.

Anyone have any clues? Suggestions? Hints? Margarita? *grin*

Thanks in advance.

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Subject: Linux-Networking Digest #317

Linux-Networking Digest #317, Volume #6 Sat, 2 Aug 97 12:13:36 EDT

Contents:
Re: autodialing ppp (Tracy Perry)
identd + masquerading (Douglas Gilbert)
Re: On demand Dial up to ISP with Masquerade (Bob Hauck)
RPC for Linux (Steve Buchanan)
Re: How to turnoff modem sound? ("coke")
diald and SparcLinux (Thomas Risse)
Re: Multiple IP's on single adaptor ("Stan A. Rogge")
HELP: (Liaw Yong Shyang)
Re: NFS export only to nodes listed in /etc/hosts. (Lene Adamczewski and Mogens Kjaer)
Re: identd + masquerading (K. Spoon)
Problems with a NE2000 clone ("Jeszs Berian")
Re: Ethernet Hardware Addresses (Keith Burdis)
Re: PPP disconnect after 5 minutes (Dirk Foersterling)
rusers: CORE DUMP (Monty)
Re: PPP routing problem (Mark Lentczner)
Re: Win95 as a router for Linux ("Kim A. Knoblauch")
Re: Using IPX to connect to IP masquerade possible? ("Kim A. Knoblauch")
Re: does masquerading work w/ 2.0.30? (Bryan Bartone)
Re: Opinions Wanted: Which OS? ("Kim A. Knoblauch")
Re: How to turnoff modem sound? (Henry H Lu)
Re: sendmail over a nondedicated PPP link (Daniel Beckham)

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From: Tracy Perry <nos...@dal.cleaf.com>
Subject: Re: autodialing ppp
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 05:42:06 -0500

Stefan Pommerening wrote:

| Attention: Diald is for use with static IP numbers only. If you are
| dialling up to a provider with uses dynamic IPs you won't be lucky
| without
| setting up a more complicated environment...

took me about 5 minutes... and my ISP uses dynamic IP numbers.

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From: Douglas Gilbert <do...@triode.net.au>
Subject: identd + masquerading
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 12:03:54 +0200

I am using a web browser behind a masquerading firewall and have
noticed lines like the following in the log of my masquerading
machine:

... identd: Connection from 217.17.123.47
identd: Returned: 64776,25: NO-USER

Sometimes the logging of these messages coincides with a denial
of service.

Is there a version of identd that works with masquerading or is
it important that it returns "NO-USER" for security reasons. If so,
what if the other end objects?

==================================================================
Douglas Gilbert Email: do...@triode.net.au
2b Berowra Road [now at: Strandgaten 207, 5004 Bergen Norway]
Mt Colah, 2079, Australia Tel (in Norway): +47 55900260

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From: bo...@wasatch.com (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: On demand Dial up to ISP with Masquerade
Date: 30 Jul 1997 14:39:58 GMT

In article <33DDF1D8...@nomura.co.uk>,
Paul Medcalf <Paul.M...@nomura.co.uk> writes:

| Is it possible to do on demand connection to an ISP as an extension of
| Masquerading ?.

Yes. Get diald.

| Does anybody have this working ? I've had a look through the Masquerade
| Faq's and cant see anything obvious about this. Seems like most stuff

Yes, but on analog dialup, not ISDN. Get diald. There's an rpm
for it at Red Hat, should also be on sunsite and mirrors.

---
Bob Hauck bo...@wasatch.com
Wasatch Communications Group http://www.wasatch.com

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From: Steve Buchanan <ste...@wwisp.com>
Subject: RPC for Linux
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 21:13:56 -0500

I am looking for a way to compile and run RPC code on my Linux boxes.
Does anyone know where I can get my hands on a relatively stable version
of RPC for Linux? Does such a beast even exist?

Steve Buchanan

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From: "coke" <salo...@inter.net.il>
Subject: Re: How to turnoff modem sound?
Date: 2 Aug 1997 08:15:03 GMT

BBS user <blas...@blast.dyn.ml.org > wrote in article
<qlr8r5...@blast.dyn.ml.org>...
|
|
| Modem sound is very annoying, How can I turn the sound off? (ppp
connection)
| My modem is USR 33.6 fax/data modem
| --
sure .. just send it the AT-command - ATM0 ..
to turn it back on use ATM1.
Enjoy..

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From: Thomas...@frankfurt.netsurf.de (Thomas Risse)
Subject: diald and SparcLinux
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 09:12:56 GMT

I have a Sparc10-kompatibel Workstation (AXIL HWS 310) with
RedHat-Linux 4.2 installed. It works very well. I can manually connect
to my internet provider but not automatically with diald.
First I tried the version 0.16.3. After starting the program I get the
SLIP interface with the default route to it. Then when the first
packet is routed to this interface and diald should make the
connection it terminates without a message.
Then I tried the version 0.16.4. With this version it also didn't work
but diald doesn't terminates. Instead it wrotes to the log-file
something about a 'Stray signal 10'. The message is repeated about
50000 times and more.
Does anybody have experience with diald on SparcLinux ??

Thomas

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From: "Stan A. Rogge" <sro...@telsarpc.harmonic.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple IP's on single adaptor
Date: 21 Jul 1997 04:55:26 GMT

You will need aliasing support in the kernel and then you run a couple of
commands to setup your additional ip addresses on the ethernet:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.1 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask
255.255.255.0
/sbin/route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0:1

for the next one:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0:2 192.168.2.1 broadcast 192.168.2.255 netmask
255.255.255.0
/sbin/route add -net 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0:2

for the next one:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0:3 192.168.3.1 broadcast 192.168.3.255 netmask
255.255.255.0
/sbin/route add -net 192.168.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0:3

I think this is right, but maybe I am off a bit.

--
Stan A. Rogge (Systems Analyst) sro...@telsarpc.harmonic.com
Harmonic System Incorporated, 701 Fourth Avenue South, Suite 320,
Minneapolis MN 55415
Telephone: 612-321-4060 Fax- 612-672-3549
Web: http://www.telsarpc.harmonic.com FTP: ftp://telsarpc.harmonic.com

mitch <asv...@bellatlantic.net> wrote in article
<33d2d7bf.199451482@localhost>...
|
| I'm trying to get multiple IP's on a single adapter. I thought
| updating the /etc/hosts file would do it but it doesnt seem to.
|
| I'm using:
|
| Red Hat Linux release 4.1 (Vanderbilt)
| Kernel 2.0.27 on an i586
|
| Attached is my /etc/hosts file
|
| Do I need to have anything else done?
|

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From: Liaw Yong Shyang <cwc...@leonis.nus.sg>
Subject: HELP:
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:39:19 +0800

Hi,

I would really appreciate for your help / suggestion for the following
problem:

I have a user process /deamon running on top of TCP/IP. When a SYN
packet is received by the TCP, I would like to pass the IP address and
port number of the destination to my user daemon, which will do some
processing base on the destination IP and port number. How can I pass
this information from the TCP to my user daemon??

I'm trying to look at how getsockopt() works, but can't find where the
sock->ops->getsocckopt() is. I really appreciate any help/pointer very
much . Thank you.

------------------------------

From: Lene Adamczewski and Mogens Kjaer <dko...@vip.cybercity.dk>
Subject: Re: NFS export only to nodes listed in /etc/hosts.
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 11:13:05 +0200

Joseph Kotran wrote:
|
| Hello,
|
| I am having trouble with my Red Hat 4.2 installation. For some unknown
| reason, only nodes that are listed in the server's /etc/hosts file may
| mount NFS exports from the Linux server. This problem has started for
| no apparent reason and as far as I can tell the problem is not with the
| clients.
|

I had great trouble in getting the Linux NFS server to work, until I
edited
/etc/nsswitch.conf and removed nis and nisplus from the hosts line. The
only
two entries left now is "dns" and "files".

Hope this helps,

Mogens

--
Lene Adamczewski and Mogens Kjfr
C.F. Richs Vej 101C, 3.tv., 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
EMail: dko...@vip.cybercity.dk
Homepage: http://www2.dk-online.dk/users/lene_adamczewski

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From: ksp...@nosale.com (K. Spoon)
Subject: Re: identd + masquerading
Date: 2 Aug 1997 10:38:24 GMT

Douglas Gilbert <do...@triode.net.au> once queried:

|Is there a version of identd that works with masquerading or is
|it important that it returns "NO-USER" for security reasons. If so,
|what if the other end objects?

Look for midentd. It's basic premise is that you list a username for
each machine on your LAN, and if the "gateway" gets a request for one
of the masq'd machines, it sends back the username.

Unfortunately, I've managed to forget the URL for midentd. However,
you should be able to find it on the IP Masq homepage, which in turn,
you can get to from the Linux Links page at http://www.linuxhq.com/

As to whether the other end objects or not... when a machine gets
a request to connect from a remote site, if that machine insists on
doing an ident lookup it's pretty much relying on the honesty and
competence of the remote admin to get an accurate answer.

Best of luck,

-K. Spoon ( keep the username, and send mail to mindless.com )
--
Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom:
No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats --
approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.

------------------------------

From: "Jeszs Berian" <jbe...@balearkom.es>
Subject: Problems with a NE2000 clone
Date: 27 Jul 1997 13:37:39 GMT

I've some problems with my Ethernet card. I've got a 16 bit NE2000 clone.
I've been reading some FAQs like Ethernet-HOWTO , etc... but they don't
help me. It's quite odd because when I boot the system, Linux detects 3
cards and I uninstalled it some days ago. I uninstalled it because it
started having some problems with its IRQ since I installed Linux. It says
it has problems in any IRQ but 3. I don't know why but I have two cards and
both say the same thing. Linux detects 3 cards at 2e0, 360 and 3c0. It says
they are registered at those addresses. Do I have to unregister them? ;-?.
Please help me. My computer is a Pentium 133 with 24 Mb.
My kernel is a 1.2.13 one and I used to have my NE2000 at adrs 280 irq 9.

==========================================================

Saludos / Greetings, e-mail: jbe...@balearkom.es
Jeszs Berian.

------------------------------

From: ke...@rucus.ru.ac.za (Keith Burdis )
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Ethernet Hardware Addresses
Date: 2 Aug 1997 13:12:04 GMT

Zack Williams (z...@u.arizona.edu) wrote:
: How do I find the hardware address of my Ethernet Card?
: Is it written on the card? Hidden somewhere in the /proc fs?

You should be able to see your hardware address in all the blurb that
scrolls past when you boot up linux. Once you have booted, you can type :

dmesg

to see it again. Here's what my networking stuff looks like :

wd.c: Presently autoprobing (not recommended) for a single card.
loading device 'eth0'...
wd.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (bec...@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
eth0: WD80x3 at 0x280, 00 00 C0 D6 FA 5A WD8013, IRQ 3, shared memory at 0xd0
0-0xd3fff.

The 00 00 C0 D6 FA 5A is your hardware address. Yours should be somewhere
around "loading device 'eth0'..." too.

Hope this helps.

: Zack Williams
: z...@u.arizona.edu

- Keith
--
Keith Burdis - BSc Honours (Com Sci) - Rhodes University
Email : ke...@rucus.ru.ac.za
WWW : http://www.rucus.ru.ac.za/~keith/
IRC : Panthras JAPH

Standard disclaimer.
---

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From: mill...@DeathsDoor.com (Dirk Foersterling)
Subject: Re: PPP disconnect after 5 minutes
Date: 25 Jul 1997 21:31:53 +0200
Reply-To: mill...@DeathsDoor.com

On 24 Jul 1997 19:25:16 GMT, Tim Meals <tam...@rebis.com> wrote:
|I just installed Slackware 3.2 at home onto a 486/66, 16M memory.
|Kernel is 2.0.29 and pppd is 2.2.0 (or whatever comes with the
|standard Slackware discs).
|
|I dial into my ISP with an external USR 28.8k Sportster. After 5
|minutes, I cease to receive packets from link. I try pinging the

[snip]

Humm. Only thing I can tell may not be very helpful...
(I don't have a USR)

My "ISP" (uni-frankfurt.de) told me that such problem comes from
telephone lines with "too high quality". This means, that the lines are
very low-noise. The analog modems are designed to be able to transmit
data over noisy lines and thus, the output level is adjusted to a
relatively high level (about -10dB). That is too much, said my ISP. The
high level would cause distortions on the line, making the ISP's modems
believe my modem not being connected correctly anymore. I should look up
my modem's manual and lower the output level to something like -15dB.

Rockwell technical support told me this is crap.
Other people connected with uni-frankfurt.de told me, that they could
stop the disconnection problem with the output-level setting....

I found out another two things to examine:

- I switched from ITU-T to BELL transmission mode. With this setting,
the disconnections after 5 Minutes were less than before.
- Cooling of the modem (By placing it on a free place) reduced the
problem further. It seems, that the problem has gone.

-dirk

--
D i r k F "o r s t e r l i n g
mill...@DeathsDoor.com - http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~dirk
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From: Monty <mo...@mnl.sequel.net>
Subject: rusers: CORE DUMP
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 19:09:51 +0800
Reply-To: mo...@mnl.sequel.net

Hello All,

I am always getting a core dump when I tried
calling rusers without hostname or "rusers -a".

I am previously using slackware96 kernel 2.0.0 then
upgraded my system to kernel 2.0.30 just thought that
core dump will go a way... but... :(

I am looking for the source code of the rusers maybe
recompiling it would be better... coz this is also
what I did when I got the same problem with "umount".

Send replies to mo...@mnl.sequel.net

Thanks

------------------------------

From: ma...@glyphic.com (Mark Lentczner)
Subject: Re: PPP routing problem
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 09:44:33 -0700

Did you route? If pppd has 'defaultroute' in it's options, it probably
did. Otherwise try something like:

/sbin/route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 192.147.147.9

Did you enable the forwarding of packets with ipfwadm? Try something like:

/sbin/ipfwadm -F -f
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -a accept -S 206.183.13.80/28
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -a accept -D 206.183.13.80/28

This: (1) Clears the forwarding firewall, (2) denys that which isn't
specified, (3) allows forwarding of packets from your net, (4) allow
forwarding of packets to your net.

For anti-spoofing protection, you'll want to add:

/sbin/ipfwadm -I -f
/sbin/ipfwadm -I -p accpet
/sbin/ipfwadm -I -a deny -S 206.183.13.80/28 -V 206.183.13.81
/sbin/ipfwadm -O -f
/sbin/ipfwadm -O -p deny
/sbin/ipfwadm -O -a accept -S 206.183.13.80/28 -V 206.183.13.81
/sbin/ipfwadm -O -a accept -V 206.183.13.85

This: (1) Clears the incoming firewall, (2) allows that which isn't
specified, (3) denys incoming packtes claiming to be from your network on
the external interface, (4) Clears the outgoing firewall, (5) denys that
which isn't specified, (6) allows outgoing packets from your network on
the external interface, (7) allows all outgoing packets on the internal
interface

With these in place, you could probably be more liberal with the
forwarding rules (assuming you're worried about processing speed....
though I'm sure the bottle neck is the ISDN line.):

/sbin/ipfwadm -F -f
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -p accept

Of course, your milage may vary...

===================
Mark Lentczner
Glyphic Technology
444 Castro Street
Suite 811
Mtn. View, CA 94041
ma...@glyphic.com
http://www.glyphic.com/
415/964-5311 voice
415/967-4379 fax

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From: "Kim A. Knoblauch" <k...@dpmc.com>
Subject: Re: Win95 as a router for Linux
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 16:16:46 GMT

David Conlan wrote:
|
| fr...@pineaus.com.nospam (Frank Pineau) writes:
|
| >I have a W95 computer connected via dial-up PPP to my ISP. I also have an
| >ethernet adapter to connect to my TCP/IP LAN. When I attach my Linux box
| >to my LAN, I can ping my W95 ethernet IP address, and I can ping the W95
| >modem's IP address, but I can't ping anything past the modem. Can Win95
| >act as a router to pass the packets from the ethernet card to the modem and
| >then beyond? If so, how? It seems to me that if I can ping the modem, I
| >should be able to at least ping my ISP's router.
|
| >TIA
| >FP Can't you set up the Win95 router table with a default gateway to
the outside world AND then point the other machines to the Win95 box as
a gateway ? I seem to recall that there is a feature (undocumented bug)
in Win95 that allows this to work.

Kim

--
Kim A. Knoblauch | Database Systems that solve Business ......
DPMC, Inc. | ...................................Problems
k...@dpmc.com |______________________________________________
Voice: 908-638-4784 | Visit our Web Site -> <http://www.dpmc.com>
Fax: 908-638-4299
__________________________________________________________________________

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From: "Kim A. Knoblauch" <k...@dpmc.com>
Subject: Re: Using IPX to connect to IP masquerade possible?
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 16:22:29 GMT

Sorry but I don't under stand why you cannot run IP on your
Novell network ? Does this mean that you have Novell 2.2 or lower ?
Novell IP will run from V3.11 up! You may have trouble finding it if you
have later versions of the 3.11 disks BUT it was on the early 3.11 disk
set. It is I am fairly certain on the 3.12 disks.

Kim

Ben Neil Gerdemann wrote:
|
| Hello,
|
| We have an IPX Novell network that cannot pass IP packets. We would like
| to connect the IPX machines (mostly Windows 95 and Win 3.x) to the
| Internet. Is it possible to send IPX packets to a Linux box running IP
| Masquerade to connect them to the Internet? Would this require a TCP
| tunnel over IPX? If IP masquerade can't do this, is there another way?
|
| We are currently do this through a Novell server with a product called
| NOVIX, which we are very unhappy with, and would like to switch to Linux
| which we *are* happy with. :)
|
| Thanks,
| Ben Gerdemann

------------------------------

From: Bryan Bartone <bbar...@edgenet.net>
Subject: Re: does masquerading work w/ 2.0.30?

Date: 02 Aug 1997 09:26:35 -0400

Chuck --

Make sure you get the latest patch to bring the version number up to
0.16.4 with kernel 2.0.30. Before I did this th deamon would die for
no apparent reason.

|>>>> "CC" == Chuck Campbell <camp...@neosoft.com> writes:

CC> I'm about to embark on setting up diald and masquerading, but
CC> I just found in the dial on demand howto a note that said
CC> masquerading (or transparent proxying) doesn't work with
CC> 2.0.30 or above.

CC> Is this still the case? If not, what patches do I need?

CC> thanks, -chuck

CC> "Integration means more than having all the maps at the
CC> same scale!"

------------------------------

From: "Kim A. Knoblauch" <k...@dpmc.com>
Subject: Re: Opinions Wanted: Which OS?

Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 15:30:49 GMT

Tom Elsesser wrote:
As a Foxbase/Foxpro programmer (albeit on non-unix systems), I am
not exactly certain why you feel you have a Y2K problem. Is SCO Fox 2.1.1
one of the Fox flavors that does not have the SET CENTURY ON feature ?

There was at least one release of Foxpro for Unix that should
have this feature and still run under SCO. Please give more details.

Kim

|
| Hi,
| I run a small (20 person) manufacturing shop. Currently, we have 5
| Wyse60 terminals connected to a SCO unix 3.2 4.2 box. Our database, job
| write-up, and quoting software were custom written in SCO Foxbase 2.1.1,
| which means we have a Y2K problem. I got quotes to get the Y2K bug fixed
| from a local developer, but found that it would be very expensive,
| partly because our accounting software (SBT) is Foxbase driven. The way
| I see it, I have 4 options:
| 1. Keep the SCO unix and Foxbase, get it fixed...cost: $20K
| 2. Buy a manufacturing software package(to replace Foxbase software),
| get 4 windows desktops, and a server w/Win NT or Novell. cost : $20K
| 3. Keep SCO Unix, buy manufacturing software package,4 Win95
| desktops, get software for SCO to network Win95. ... cost : $20K
| 4. Buy a manufacturing package, 4 win95 desktops, server w/Linux or
| FreeBSD ... cost : $18K
|
| As you can see, everything is fairly comparable, but a new
| manufacturing package would compliment our business nicely. The SCO runs
| beautifully right now, no problems in 7 years. While not a unix guru, I
| have maintained the system for 4 years, adding users & printers; easy
| stuff like that. Any opinions, suggestions, guidance, and comments would
| be greatly appreciated.

| --
| Tom Elsesser

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From: hon...@rt66.com (Henry H Lu)
Subject: Re: How to turnoff modem sound?
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 05:52:57 -0600

BBS user (blas...@blast.dyn.ml.org) wrote:

: Modem sound is very annoying, How can I turn the sound off? (ppp connection)
: My modem is USR 33.6 fax/data modem
: --
: blast email : bla...@usa.net

: http://hiv-web.lanl.gov/~hlu/

I meant the modem sound from speaker. I usually turn the speak on all day
long and also at night because I also use computer as alarm clock and it
will wake me up with music playing in the morning. The modem sound in
speaker is annoying.

--
****************************
Henry H Lu

http://hiv-web.lanl.gov/~hlu/
New Mexico sandland Chinese BBS
telnet blast.dyn.ml.org

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From: dan...@scott.net (Daniel Beckham)
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: sendmail over a nondedicated PPP link
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 19:36:14 GMT

Look at the linux PPP-HOWTO. It goes into some detail about just this
subject. (near the end of the document)

Daniel

Mail Delivery Subsystem

unread,

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From: Linux-Ne...@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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To: Linux-Ne...@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu

Subject: Linux-Networking Digest #342

Linux-Networking Digest #342, Volume #6 Wed, 6 Aug 97 23:13:34 EDT

Contents:
Re: Mail routing to transitory LINUX systems. (Frank Sweetser)
Re: networking over an null-modem with windows 3.1 (Roderick Groesbeek)
terminal setup (Scott Calonico)
help! courier i-modems? ("Nate Dutra")
kerberos 4 binaries or source (John Riccardi)
wu-ftpd and /etc/shells (shadow passwords) (Christopher Wong)
Re: demand-dial PPP? (Balgera Diego)
Re: Linux Web server problem (Nikolai Bakschies)
How to forward TELNET to other machine? ("Donar Alofs")
HELP: How to write a socket call ... (Liaw Yong Shyang)
rpc.rstatd compile help (Chris Gatenby)
Re: Using one /usr and /home partition on network (Pat Thoyts)
Re: web server over home network? ("Shane Coffman")
Re: Etherworks 3 problem... (Christopher J. Burke)
Re: Perl on Linux net access to Oracle...? (georget)
Re: minicom (Scott Jones)
MASQ Checksum Error (Paul Bennett)
ISDN w/ getty: HELP (Sam Phillips)
Linux Networking and IP Masquerading (Mike Carpentier)

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From: Frank Sweetser <rasm...@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Mail routing to transitory LINUX systems.
Date: 06 Aug 1997 16:08:45 -0400

jal...@andante-systems.com writes:

| I am looking for suggestions as to the best method of spooling and
| sending mail to Linux systems that are not on a LAN all the time.
|
| We have a dedicated mail server that is setup with smail 3.2 and
| configured to route mail via a UUCP connection. This is all working
| fine.
|
| Now we have 3 machines that are dual boot Linux - Windoze NT systems.
| These machines are all on a local TCP/IP LAN. The are either booted
| as Linux (when we are doing real work), booted as NT (when we need to
| use office or are developing under Visual Cafe) or off. I am looking
| for an easy way to message the mail server when the machines are
| booted as Linux so it can send mail to the various user accounts on
| the Linux systems but have that mail server queue the mail for later
| retrieval if that particular user does not have his system booted as
| Linux. When Linux is up I would like mail to be delivered without
| having to invoke something like Pop3 to retrieve it. Otherwise I need
| a standard smail/unix mail delivery system to function when the Linux
| systems are on line. When they are not on line, I need the mail
| server to queue the mail for latter pick up when they are back on
| line.
|

Have the mail server always queue up the mail. You can then use fetchmail
in daemon mode to get the mail when it's in linux.

--
Windows: I can play Doom! |RedHat Linux 2.0.31pre-2 i486
Linux: I can be a file server, be a Web|Because reboots are for upgrades!
server, run the accounting package with|http://www.wpi.edu/~rasmusin/pgp.html
twelve terminals AND play Doom! |for pgp key. frank sweetser

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From: rgr...@irc.powerwing.nl (Roderick Groesbeek)
Subject: Re: networking over an null-modem with windows 3.1
Date: 6 Aug 1997 01:12:05 GMT
Reply-To: rgroesb...@cs.vu_garbage.nl

On Sat, 02 Aug 1997 22:44:13 -0400, Christopher Mitchell
<rea...@lightstream.net> wrote:
|I just switch over to linux about two months ago. I heard that you can
|network two computer with a null-modem. My wife computer was windows
|3.1 and also wants to go on the internet at the same time I on the
|internet. Is there away to net her computer to my computer that her
|have access to the internet too. If so, please tell me how....
|
|Christopher Mittchell (rea...@lightstream.net)

If you don't wanna use, I would suggest PLIP.
Take a look at the PLIP howto's.

Check out PLIP.gz, IP-Masquerade.gz !! [Howto's]

Btw PLIP is not a null-modem connection.. but a paralles connection.
A lot faster... :-)

So let me restate that:
1) Get trumpet winsocket (Win3.11) (Get that plip.com driver too!)
2) Fix a PLIP kernel (Linux)
3) Read docs about PLIP + IP-Masquerading..
4) Get a PLIP cable (Lap-Link cable..)

Hope this helps..

Roderick
---
Alkmaar Linux Promoter

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From: fl...@jumpnet.com (Scott Calonico)
Subject: terminal setup
Date: 6 Aug 1997 16:49:59 GMT

Howdy,

Trying to setup an old 286 as a terminal connected to my Linux box.
I've read the HOWTOs (serial one was pretty helpful) and will deal
with that part myself. I'm going to run Procomm on the 286 to
do the terminal emulation. My question is this...what exactly should
I do on the 286 end to initiate the connection? When everything is
configured correctly and I fire up Procomm do I just tap on the
return key a few times to get a login prompt? Is that it?

Thanks,

scott
fl...@jump.net

------------------------------

From: "Nate Dutra" <ndu...@epicsys.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: help! courier i-modems?
Date: 6 Aug 1997 20:03:08 GMT
Reply-To: "Nate Dutra" <du...@cs.wisc.edu>

Sorry to post this again, but it narrows the scope of my question a little.

I'm about to buy an internal USR courier-I modem, basically an internal
courier ISDN adapter.

Has anyone heard anything good or bad about this with Linux? Will this
work? I'm about to spend a good amount of money on this and would GREATLY
appreciate any replies.

please cc: replies to du...@cs.wisc.edu
--
* Nate Dutra - Epic Systems Corp - PC Systems Team
* Any views that I express in this post do not reflect the
* views of Epic Systems Corporation. (Why would you
* think that they would?)
* Reply to: du...@cs.wisc.edu

------------------------------

From: John Riccardi <john.r...@vanderbilt.edu>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: kerberos 4 binaries or source
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 18:37:58 -0500

Does anyone know where I could get a copy of the source of Cygnus's
Kerb4 package, or the compiled binaries for Linux? I have found Kerb5
everywhere, but no one seems to have Kerb4, and our realm is still K4.
All the other machines are solaris boxes.

TIA
John

------------------------------

From: cjw...@NOSPAMistep.com (Christopher Wong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: wu-ftpd and /etc/shells (shadow passwords)
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 22:56:16 GMT

I'm using debian linux 2.0.30 kernel and just recompiled wu-ftpd
2.4-27 to support shadow passwords and virtual hosts.

I read in the wu-ftpd beta13 notes (I couldn't get beta 13 to work so
I went back to 2.4-27) and says that the users have to have a valid
login shell that is listed in /etc/shells.

My /etc/shells says:
/bin/lshells/ash
/bin/lshells/bash
/bin/lshells/csh
/bin/lshells/sh
/usr/bin/lshells/es
/usr/bin/lshells/ksh
/usr/bin/lshells/rc
/usr/bin/lshells/tcsh
/usr/bin/lshells/zsh

When I do "adduser" to add new users the default shell that shows up
for each user in /etc/password says: /bin/bash

When I diff the /bin/bash and /bin/lshells/bash they show up as
different.

My questions are:

1) what's the difference between the 2 bash's?

2) which bash should I use?

3) If I should use /bin/bash should I just add a line that says
/bin/bash to the /etc/shells file?

4) what other programs use the /etc/ shells file? what created the
file?

Misc. questions:

1) How do I check which version of wu-ftpd am I running? it says
(wu-2.4(14). I thought I was running level 27?

Thanks for any help. I've been struggling with wu-ftpd for the past
48 hours and it's been a real pain to get shadow passwords working.
until I figured out that kill -1 is not the right command to restart
xinetd. Oh well, life goes on.

-Chris
If replying by email please delete the "NOSPAM" from the address.

------------------------------

From: Balgera Diego <abal...@tin.it>
Subject: Re: demand-dial PPP?

Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 09:36:03 +0000

Pablo Halpern wrote:

| Is there any way to configure Linux ppp to dial-up when an client
| application tries to connect and then hang-up if there are no open

| connections during a specified time-out period?

Yep, there is. Try to install the diald tool, available
fromhttp://www.dna.lth.se/~erics/diald.htmlBye.

Balgera Diego
abal...@tin.it

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Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 00:56:39 -0400
From: Nikolai Bakschies <ni...@ibm.net>
Reply-To: ni...@ibm.net

Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,uc.linuxusers
Subject: Re: Linux Web server problem

Hi,

when migratHenrik Carlqvist wrote:
|
| Erik Pfingsten wrote:
| > It SEEMS to be set up correctly, however network access TO the machine
| > is very spotty. If I'm at the machine itself, I can telnet out, use
| > the web, ftp etc, etc. with no problem. But if anyone tries to
| > connect to the server (telnet session, web pages, etc) it seems to go
| > up and down constantly for no reason
|
| Have you tried to ping to and from your machine to see if the network
| seems fine. Have you checked /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog to
| see if there are any error messages? You could also try with another
| network adapter, the best would be another brand with another driver.
|
| regards Henrik
|
| --
| spammer strikeback:
| nobody@localhost postmaster@localhost
| root@localhost operator@localhost

Hi,
when migrating to kernel 2.0.30 I experienced Web server problems, too.
But on my LAN telnetting TO the machine is OK. Even if I access the web
server with the local Netscape I have performance problems. with kernel
2.0.25 everything was OK.
Any comments ???
--
Bye,
Niko ;-)

------------------------------

From: "Donar Alofs" <do...@ig.net>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,de.comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: How to forward TELNET to other machine?
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 22:41:36 +0200

Hi,

I like to forward a telnet connection to another machine, what is the
easiest way to do this? So if I do TELNET MACHINE1.TEST.NET it should make
a telnet connection to MACHINE2.TEST.COM.

I am using ip aliases on the Linux machine and I only want to forward 1 ip
alias to the other machine, on the standart port 23, the real ip adres of
the computer still has to be the own computers (machine1) telnet deamon.

Has anyone done this? Can you tell me how to do this, please email me on:
d o n a r @ i g . n e t

Or answere via news ofcourse (please also email it to me directly :)

Donar

--
Email: do...@nospam.net
Watch out: Change the "nospam" to "ig" if you
want to email me.

------------------------------

From: Liaw Yong Shyang <cwc...@leonis.nus.sg>

Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: HELP: How to write a socket call ...
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 19:26:21 +0800
Reply-To: Liaw Yong Shyang <cwc...@leonis.nus.sg>

Hi,

What I would like to do is to provide a new socket API call (i.e.
send_acksyn) inadditional to the existing one (such as socket(), bind(),
etc). This new function send_acksyn() will send out a SYN/ACK. This is for
my own purpuse, as I need it in my project.

I understand that socketcall() will be called when a socket API function
is called. What I don't understand is that when a socket API function is
called, how does the system knows that it has to call socketcall() and
pass the right parameters?? Correct me if I'm wrong.

In short, how can I write a new socket API function in Linux?? Any
comments or suggestions are welcomed.

Thank you.

------------------------------

From: gat...@boreas.spammenot.med.yale.edu (Chris Gatenby)
Subject: rpc.rstatd compile help
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 17:59:12 -0400

Hi,

I'm trying to compile rpc.rstatd without success. I have got the 3.03
version, with the patch as provided by Adam Migus (ami...@cs.mun.ca).
However it will not compile (2.0.27, gcc-2.7.2.1-2) on my system. The
distribution looks to be quite old - references to 1.2.x and 1.3.x
kernels. Does anyone know of a. a more recent version, and/or b. how to
successfully compile the version that I have?

Thanks in advance,

------------------------------

From: Pat Thoyts <Pat.T...@anti-spam.bbsrc.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Using one /usr and /home partition on network
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 11:20:23 +0100

Jarrod Lowe wrote:
[snip]
|
| What I would like to do is have one machine _not_ have a /usr or /home
| partition on it, but to mount (presumably by NFS) the others. I don't
| think there will be any problem with the /home partition, but I am
| worried about running into problems with sharing /usr?
|
| Also, are there any other partitions I could share? I'm guessing I
| can't share /dev, /boot, /etc, /lost+found, /proc or /var. But what
| about /bin, /lib, /mnt, /root, /sbin and /tmp?
|

With the kernels NFS-root functionality you can share everything. I boot
a bunch of PC's here ranging from 386 to Pentiums and none of them
require any disk space for linux. I use a floppy with a copy of the
correct kernel and loadlin.exe and a DOS bat file. As all these run
DOS/Win3.1 normally, users can boot them up - type 'linux' and any they
go.

We export a root filesystem for each PC under /home/PCname which
contains enough stuff to boot, mount the other partitions and has the
/var location for each. This is exported rw for that PC only.
Here's a paraphrased /etc/exports.

/home/PCname PCname(rw,no_root_squash)
/usr *.lars.bbsrc.ac.uk(ro,root_squash)
/opt *.lars.bbsrc.ac.uk(ro,root_squash)
/home PCname(rw,root_squash)

There is a HOWTO or mini-HOWTO on root-nfs.

--
Pat Thoyts Remove anti-spam from address to reply.
Tel: +44-(0)-1275-549414 http://pc0652.lars.bbsrc.ac.uk/~pat/home.shtml

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From: "Shane Coffman" <fis...@usit.net>
Subject: Re: web server over home network?
Date: 6 Aug 1997 22:37:21 GMT

You can do either of these, provided the machines are networked:
1. mount the directory containing the html docs from PC#1 on PC#2, then
access them via the web browser by entering //mountdir/subdir/doc.html as
the address.

2. install and run a web server on PC#1.
| Conection refused. Network may be down or does not accept connections.

You can't just type the IP address of the PC containing the html docs
because there is no web server listening on port 8080. Your FTP and Mail
works after a fresh install because most distributions of Linux come
running a FTP & Mail server upon installation. Not true for a web server!

If you go this route, try looking at the apache web server. It's fairly
easy to set up and maintain. www.apache.org

------------------------------

From: wy...@swath.engin.umich.edu (Christopher J. Burke)
Subject: Re: Etherworks 3 problem...
Date: 7 Aug 1997 00:40:30 GMT

: > Anyway, I have my routing tables set up, and I believe I have all other
: > configuration files proper. When I try to access the network, i get the
: > error message 'cannot find route to host'.
: Well, what are you routing tables? specifically, what does 'route -nr'
: show?

destination gateway genmask flags MSS Window irtt iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0 eth0

That's it. Thanks in advance.
Chris Burke

------------------------------

From: georget <geo...@genesyslab.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.lang.perl.modules
Subject: Re: Perl on Linux net access to Oracle...?
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 16:34:45 -0700

Please:

http://www.wmd.de/wmd/staff/pauck/misc/oracle_on_linux.html

AND
What Bob Eisner is writing:

spe...@mail.ue.com.au.kludge.to.stop.spammers wrote:
|
| Hello All,
|
| I'm running a (currently) small internal web server on Apache 1.2 and would like
| to access data stored in our Oracle servers. Is this possible?
|
| The Web server is a P90 running Linux 2.0.27 and Apache 1.2. The Oracle servers
| are RS/6000's running AIX.
|
| Any suggestions?
|
| Steven P.

Hi Steven,

You may want to take a look at VORTEXjava, VORTEXjdbc and
VORTEXperl products from Trifox.

A JAVA applet can only connect back to a machine that the applet was
download from. This restriction is in place for security reason.

However, it you use the VORTEXjava or VORTEXjdbc products from Trifox,
you can get around this restriction. We have the ability to relay calls
from the backend server (where the applet came from) to another backend
server on another machine.

Client <-----> Liunx Host <-----> AIX Host

NETSCAPE HTTPD Oracle
or JAVA Applet
MS IE VORTEXserver VORTEXserver
Perl Program

In the example above the Browser, can reference an HTML page which
has an JAVA APPLET which gets download to the client machine an
connects to the VORTEX server on the AIX Host. The URL specified
in APPLET foo tells the VORTEX server on Server the Linux Host to
connect to the VORTEX server on Server of the AIX Host. The
VORTEX server on the AIX host then connects to Oracle.

We're currently using this type of access to allow users on the
Internet to gain access to a Oracle RDBMS running on a Solairs
Sparc host inside our Firewall. We're running an Apache 1.2 WEB
Server on Liunx 2.x.

If you want a demonstation of this, you can down evaulation copies
of VORTEXserver at http://www.trifox.com/products/eval_server.html

You can obtain an evaluation copy of VORTEXjdbc from our WEB site
at http://www.trifox.com/vortex/vtxjdbc.html

You can obtain an evaluation copy of VORTEXjava from our WEB site
at http://www.trifox.com/vortex/vtxjava.html

You can also access the VORTEXserver on AIX from the the Linux host
with a Perl program. VORTEXperl talks to multiple RDBMS and
supports Oracle on AIX. It uses Perl Sockets so there is no need

to re-build the Perl runtime.

You can obtain an evaluation copy of VORTEXperl from our WEB site
at http://www.trifox.com/j/vortex/vtxperl.html

Hope this Helps

Bob Eisner
408 369-2392

Steven Whatley wrote:
|
| In comp.databases.oracle.misc Darrell Berry <darr...@hhcl.com> wrote:

| : Our Oracle 7 servers run on Solaris 2.5+ and NT...I want to connect to

| : them using Perl 5 on a Linux Slackware 3 machine...
|
| : Looking thru the CPAN database driver and interface modules, it seems
| : these will only work if there's a prekxisting Oracle install on the client
| : machine (with SQL*Net etc already installed)...given that there's no
| : Oracle release for Linux ;-) is there any way to do what I want to do?
|

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Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 20:12:59 -0400
From: Scott Jones <sco...@hom.net>
Subject: Re: minicom

Yitzhac Casapu wrote:
|
| Yasumatsu (mur...@hgea.org) wrote:
| : I'm new to linux and trying to use minicom to test a PPP connection, I get
| : into MINICOM logged on as root without any switches, it says it is
| : initializing modem, then of course I have no clue what I'm doing, it says to
| : press ctrl- A Z for help, but this never works. Neither does man minicom i

Have you tried ctrl-A (lift fingers) then Z?

------------------------------

From: Paul Bennett <pa...@enainc.com>
Subject: MASQ Checksum Error
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 10:53:32 -0400

I am recieving the following errors from the kernel loggging service:

Aug 5 09:32:47 chief kernel: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from
<ipaddr>
Aug 5 09:32:47 chief kernel: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from
Aug 5 09:32:48 chief kernel: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from
Aug 5 09:32:48 chief kernel: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from
Aug 5 09:32:49 chief last message repeated 4 times
Aug 5 09:33:01 chief kernel: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from
Aug 5 09:33:34 chief kernel: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from
Aug 5 09:33:35 chief kernel: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from
Aug 5 09:36:38 chief kernel: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from
Aug 5 09:36:38 chief kernel: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from
Aug 5 09:42:48 chief kernel: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from

Where <ipaddr> are address that have been connected to via this machie

I have masqurading turned on, and it is working.

-- Paul

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 09:02:03 -0700
From: Sam Phillips <sphi...@inetworld.com>
Reply-To: sphi...@inetworld.com
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: ISDN w/ getty: HELP

Does anyone know how to setup a Motorola BitSurfr w/ getty-ps or
mgetty? If possible could you e-mail to the group/me. We're having
problems setting it up here and any config files would be appreciated.

Thanks
Sam

============================
Sam Phillips
Technical Support
sphi...@inetworld.com

INETworld Inc.
http://www.inetworld.com/support
(702) 324-1211
(702) 887-8871

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From: Mike Carpentier <ah...@osfn.org>
Subject: Linux Networking and IP Masquerading
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 20:31:46 +0000

Greetings all,
I'm not a newbie to Linux, but I am very stupid when it comes to
networking with it. I have Redhat ver 4.2 installed in a pentium 100,
and a 486 sx. I got both versions of Linux to detect / talk with my
network cards. How can I get each machine to share files?
I'd also like to find out how I can dial up to my ISP using one
machine, and use ip masquerading to be able to use ppp on both
machines. I know it's possible, but it's all too confusing. If someone
could, could you direct me to somewhere that I can get straight out
help, or try to explain it to me yourself.

Thanks a lot!
-Mike

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Subject: Linux-Networking Digest #325

Linux-Networking Digest #325, Volume #6 Mon, 4 Aug 97 07:13:32 EDT

Contents:
rsh through the firewall? (Martijn Lasthuizen)
Re: Linux For An ISP Experiment. (Rick Ellis)
Re: Win95 as a router for Linux (Luis V Espinoza)
How can I install my Microdyne NE5500+ PCI Network card? (Michael Zwisler)
Re: Linux PPP question (Chris Menzel)
Win95 PAP -> Linux PPPd before grey hair? ("James L. McGill")
RAID-Controller (Reinhard Simkovics)
Re: The "sock" program by Stevens (Bob Hauck)
3com 509b networkproblem (Michael Schdffler)
Re: httpd setup is killing me! (Erik Williamson)
Re: PPP problem (Chris McCrackin)
Re: networking 2 puters (Chris McCrackin)
Re: DE500-AA Ethercard Trouble (Harald Krake)
Re: generic SSL gateway? ("wong man fai")
Re: ppp-2.3.1 won4t compile ... (Gurj Bahia)
Re: Linux For An ISP Experiment. (Robert Matter)
NO DIALTONE problem (Arso Savanovic)
Re: limiting telnet connections (Frank Sweetser)
Re: Port 146 (Frank Sweetser)
Re: NO DIALTONE problem (Heiko Schlittermann)
Re: TERM: does it work under ELF? (ramki)
Re: Quake play through IP-Masq (Don Peruski)

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From: mar...@dutepp13.et.tudelft.nl (Martijn Lasthuizen)
Subject: rsh through the firewall?
Date: 4 Aug 1997 06:50:36 GMT

While trying to setup the ability to use rsh to a specific machine through the
firewall I discovered that rsh can use any port form 512 to 1023. This won't
fit in the ipfwadm rules becuase it only allowes the use of ten ports.
I don't like the idea of opening up the complete system by allowing access to
all 512 ports.
Any suggestions?

L.o.t.a.

Martijn

------------------------------

From: el...@ftel.net (Rick Ellis)
Crossposted-To: linux.admin.isp
Subject: Re: Linux For An ISP Experiment.
Date: 4 Aug 1997 08:49:26 GMT

In article <33E584...@internetmci.com>,
Robert Matter <rjma...@internetmci.com> wrote:

|BSD

Why?

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From: Luis V Espinoza <laf...@techie.com>
Subject: Re: Win95 as a router for Linux
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 01:37:46 -0700

I got a comment on this: DON'T

Setting up Linux with IP-MASQUERADING for a small network hooking up to
the internet is far easier on all your client machines.

Such as FTP, E-MAIL, IRC etc etc

As you see Wingate and many other products like it are Proxy servers.
So it will not be very uncoming that you will be setting up lots of port
mappings and other dohickeys in Win95.... Even tho you can get the
product up in 30 Minutes.... You'll have to configure all of your client
machines software for proxy server use.... I had it running for
months.... Until I installed linux a few days ago. And Everytime I
installed an application I would drudge trying to find a good
combination for Wingate and the newly installed software....

With Linux..... Set Up Ip_MASQUERADE..... Set Up Cacheing DNS server...
and Dial On Demand...
On your client machines..... Set up your ethernet card to use your linux
Box DNS server.... And POOF!!! Your Done!

------------------------------

From: zwis...@zwisler.vol.at (Michael Zwisler)
Subject: How can I install my Microdyne NE5500+ PCI Network card?
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 15:32:16 GMT
Reply-To: zwis...@zwisler.vol.at

I have installed Linux on my PC, but I have troubles to install my
networkcard! I have found a driver under
ftp://ftp.microdyne.com/NE_Ethernet/5500-uw.zip
But I don't know if it is a correct dirver and how I have to install
it!

I would be very grateful for receiving help soon!!!

------------------------------

From: cme...@philebus.tamu.edu (Chris Menzel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux PPP question
Date: 22 Jul 1997 10:10:14 -0500

In <8679453...@dejanews.com> jo...@superlink.net writes:

|After considerable RTFM, FAQ reading, newsgroup browsing, etc,
|I am unable to find the answer to my question, which is:
|
|Is there any way to manually enter modem commands, receive
|command prompts from the remote host on the network,and respond
|to them in real time interactively and then,
|when login is successful, start ppp with a command?

Use minicom to dial in. Respond to modem prompts as desired. Exit
minicom w/o resetting the modem (CTRL-A Q, I think). Start pppd from
the command line. I think this is discussed in the PPP-HOWTO.

-chris
cme...@tamu.edu

------------------------------

From: "James L. McGill" <fish...@fotd.netcomi.com>
Subject: Win95 PAP -> Linux PPPd before grey hair?
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 08:44:39 -0500
Reply-To: fish...@netcomi.com

Dear all,

I wish to setup my Linux box to function as a terminal server for
a Windows 95 box.

I want to configure it with mgetty (and /AutoPPP/) so that I do
not have to use a manual login or a script.

First, let me explain that I have my networking all worked out so
that it works fine, and that I have PPPd working. I can currently
dialup using "Dial Up Networking" from Win95 and connect, and as
long as I am willing to login using a terminal window and run pppd,
all is well. Furthermore, I am already certain that mgetty is
running pppd.

When Windows says:

Error 691: The computer you're dialing in to cannot establish a Dial-Up
Networking connection.
Check your password, and then try again.

The pppd log reads:

pppd[936]: pppd 2.2.0 started by a_ppp, uid 0
pppd[936]: Using interface ppp0
pppd[936]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
pppd[936]: PAP login failure for fishbowl
pppd[936]: Connection terminated.
pppd[936]: Exit.

(When I do connect, manually, I get:)

pppd[987]: pppd 2.2.0 started by fishbowl, uid 701
pppd[987]: Using interface ppp0
pppd[987]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
pppd[987]: local IP address 192.168.2.61
pppd[987]: remote IP address 192.168.2.62
pppd[987]: ppp not replacing existing default route to eth0[192.168.2.1]
pppd[987]: found interface eth0 for proxy arp
pppd[987]: CCP terminated at peer's request
pppd[987]: Compression disabled by peer.

(which is just dandy).

My /etc/mgetty/login.config has:
/AutoPPP/ - a_ppp /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap -detach login kdebug 7 debug

/etc/ppp/options:
lock
proxyarp
debug
modem
passive
-detach
crtscts
defaultroute
192.168.2.61:192.168.2.62
netmask 255.255.255.0

/etc/ppp/pap-secrets: (permission 0600)
* * ""

For the login and password in the W95 DUN config, I use
a valid name and password, that is is my passwd and shadow files.
I have also tried a pap-secrets with a user and password like:
fishbowl * password

With the same results.

I have tried checking on and off, the "Logon to Network" checkbox
(makes no difference).

I am pretty sure the configuration problem lies in the way I have
the server setup.

When I login manually, I start pppd with:
exec /usr/sbin/pppd passive modem crtscts 192.168.2.61:192.168.2.62
(and that uses the same options file as above)

|From everything I've read, this is setup correctly. But it does not work, and
I believe the piece that is not working is !@#$% PAP. This is one of the most
frustrating things I've ever tried to do.

Please help me. Let me re-state, my problem is not with setting up PPP.
I am connected just fine. And I believe that I have mgetty working the
way it is supposed to. My problem is that I cannot make Win95 negotiate
a login with it.

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From: Reinhard Simkovics <reinhard....@jk.uni-linz.ac.at>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.limux.hardware
Subject: RAID-Controller
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 08:47:20 +0200

Which RAID-Controllers are supported by Linux.
Are there any special drivers necessary and where can I get them.

Regards

Reinhard

Department for Electrical Measurement Technology
Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Dipl.-Ing. Reinhard Simkovics
Altenbergerstr. 69
A-4040 Linz
Tel.: +43/732/2468-9210
Fax.: +43/732/2468-9233
email: reinhard....@jk.uni-linz.ac.at

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From: bo...@wasatch.com (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: The "sock" program by Stevens
Date: 22 Jul 1997 15:11:24 GMT

In article <1997Jul17.0...@nosc.mil>,
ji...@peka.nosc.mil (jimmy S.Y. Lam) writes:

| Does anyone know where I can get the "SOCK" program for LINUX
| by Richard Stevens. I'm reading his "TCP/IP Illustrated"

Type it in and compile it? Sorry...smart ass answer...

---
Bob Hauck bo...@wasatch.com
Wasatch Communications Group http://www.wasatch.com

------------------------------

From: Michael Schdffler <msch...@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: 3com 509b networkproblem
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 11:40:10 +0200

Who can help me??
I'm new in working with linux and i try to get started a network with
one linux box and 2 win95.
My 3com 509B isa card is making problems. It is detected when I boot
linux and ifconfig shows it also. Route shows the eth0 route. But I
can't ping with the network, though I can do it if i run that (linux)box
with win95.

I tried to disable the pnp of the card, but doesn't helped anything.

If there is anybody who can help me, I would be very happy...

Michael

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 01:01:15 -0600
From: Erik Williamson <er...@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>

Subject: Re: httpd setup is killing me!

| You don't say which linux and httpd versions you are running. If your
| not running a 2.0.xx (pref 30) linux kernal and httpd 1.5 or greater
| your in trouble since the older linux kernals did not have some ipc
| support required by httpd.
|
| -- James
|

Hi,

I am currently using linux 2.0.30, and httpd 1.5.2a - Sorry that I didn't
mention that - hope that it helps!

thanks,
Erik.

------------------------------

From: Chris McCrackin <exp...@mail.cottagesoft.com>
Subject: Re: PPP problem
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 00:45:35 -0500

Brian Hart wrote:
|
| hello all-
|
| I've been trying to set up a PPP connection to my ISP for the past week or
| so, but to no avail. :(
| (in case you're wondering how i'm posting this message, I'm on my NT
| partition.)
|
| anways, I tried EZPPP, minicom, pppsetup script, but nothing works.
| I know I have PPP compiled into the kernel (2.0.29) but for some reason
| minicom won't dial out.
| I can't get a script working,..arghh..
|
| i've also read the ISP-HOokuP howto and the PPP=howto but nothing helps.
| I'm probably doing something stupid but I'm not sure.
| I have my modem configured as /dev/cua0 (com1 under DOS) which seems to be
| what is should be.
| I'm puzzled and am begging for some form of help.
|
| Please, if you have any suggestions that would be great.
|
| by the way, it would be appreciated if any responses be mailed to me at
| mis...@thenet.net because I don't check this newsgroup often.
|
| thanks again for any help you can give me! ;)
|
| --brian .8.3.97.

Does you modem initialize? DO you get a dialtone? Do the modems mesh?
are you doing a pppd /dev/cua0 38400 defaultroute once they mesh? Do you
have your resolv.conf set up correctly?

Just a few things to check. Hope this helps some =)

------------------------------

From: Chris McCrackin <exp...@mail.cottagesoft.com>
Subject: Re: networking 2 puters
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 00:42:54 -0500

sch...@dhc.net wrote:
|
| Hello!
|
| I have a quick question. I have two computers; one running Linux
| (RedHat), one running Win95. I am trying to get these two connected
| to each other, so that I can dial-up to my provider with Linux and be
| able to access this through the Win95 computer as well. Kind of a
| modem sharing thing, I guess. I have a working connection with a
| serial cable, being able to bring up HyperTerminal or DOS-Kermit on
| the Win95 puter and connecting the serial ports with the cable and
| getting a working login prompt. I can get access through the Linux
| puter's modem on the Win95 machine, however, it is *excruciatingly*
| slow! As long as my connection isn't up, the connection between the
| two is great...moves along with virtually no delay. As soon as I
| start the modem up, though, it slows to less than a crawl. I have a
| parallel cable as well, but have not tried to set that up yet. Will a
| parallel cable work better? If so, how do I need to go about setting
| up the same kind of connection I had with the serial cable, just
| faster with this parallel cable? Or are there any other
| good/semi-easy ways to do this? I'm not even sure how to go about the
| parallel thing. Each computer only has one parallel port...those
| being the printer ports.
|
| Thanks!
| Brian

Get 2 net cards and network them that way. Much faster plus you can use
a firewall/proxy to "modem share".

------------------------------

From: Harald Krake <har...@krake.de>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: DE500-AA Ethercard Trouble
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 09:35:14 +0200

Zack Williams wrote:
| I would like to set it
| to 10BaseT. When I boot, alternating messages appear from eth0 saying

| that it is using 10BaseT or 100BaseTX.

Try turning off automatic media-detection:

edit drivers/net/CONFIG: change the line (near EOF) to
TULIP_OPTS = -DTULIP_PORT=2
(for 10BaseT) and make zImage.

--
========================================================================
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Krake Softwaretechnik Web: http://www.krake.de
Bergstr. 48, 78098 Triberg, Germany Tel: +49 7722 9508-0 Fax: -30

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From: "wong man fai" <won...@confer.net.hk>
Subject: Re: generic SSL gateway?
Date: 4 Aug 1997 05:53:55 GMT

Hello,
Can anybody tell me what is Sysadmin please? I know that there is a package
called swIPe which can encrypt the ip package on host basis, it can run on
netBSD(?) and sunOS but don't know if it can run on linux. You can find it
at ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/crypherpunks/swIPe.
Regards
Wong

Frank Sweetser <rasm...@wpi.WPI.EDU> &8<g$J(l%DCD
<wvyg1sz...@wpi.WPI.EDU>...
| har...@krake.de writes:
|
| > I'm looking for a simple method to turn a standard gateway (e.g. Linux)
| > into a generic ciphering/deciphering router. There should be a way
| > to add some ciphering-layer just like adding TCP-compression to PPP.
| > The authentication should be host-specific (just like SSL does it
during
| > the early connection phase).
| > Although it's possible with SSL to setup a secure channel for a
| > dedicated TCP-port (and user), I'm still looking for a more generic way
| > that doesn't expect authentication on the user-level.
| > Any idea?
|
| Take a look at this month's issue of SysAdmin, they describe how to set
up
| an encrypted VPN. I think that the method they describe might do what
| you're looking for.

------------------------------

From: Gurj Bahia <ja...@kenwood-europe.co.uk>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ppp-2.3.1 won4t compile ...
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 08:48:03 +0100
Reply-To: G.B...@kenwood-europe.co.uk

Same problem,

RedHat 4.2 (Upgraded from 4.1) exact same error.

Wolfgang wrote:
|
| I just installed the new ppp-2.3.1 and it failed to compile (included in
| kernel or as a module).

Please post solution here....thanks.

Gurj.

------------------------------

From: Robert Matter <rjma...@internetmci.com>
Crossposted-To: linux.admin.isp
Subject: Re: Linux For An ISP Experiment.
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 02:27:08 -0500
Reply-To: rjma...@internetmci.com

BSD

| Is the Linux OS,secure enough for an ISP,

Yes.

| (well i know some use it so i guess it must be),can it be used for a web
| server,ftp,telnet,ppp,etc....,

Yes.

| Im doing some research any feedback is appreciated.
|
| Thanks

Your welcome.

-Bob
--
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rjmatter
Don't miss another important call!

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From: Arso Savanovic <ar...@e5.ijs.si>
Subject: NO DIALTONE problem
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 11:16:12 +0200

Hello!

I'm trying to dial-up my ISP, but I cannot get the call through. I keep
getting NO DIALTONE messages, although dialtone can be heard from my
external modem. I used Kermit 6.0 for (manual, I'm at the early stages
of setting up the connection) dialing, with carrier-watch option set to
off, but NO DIALTONE is where I stop. How to proceed?

--
Arso Savanovic
Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks
"Jozef Stefan" Institute
Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

e-mail: ar...@e5.ijs.si
phone: +386 61 177 3733
fax: +386 61 1232 118

------------------------------

From: Frank Sweetser <rasm...@ernie.WPI.EDU>
Subject: Re: limiting telnet connections
Date: 22 Jul 1997 11:24:25 -0400

"D. Chapman" <dcha...@lestat.halcyon.com> writes:

| How do I limit the number of telnet connections to my linux machine?
|
| /etc/inetd.conf file allows you to limit the number of connections in a
| 60 second period, but not the total number of in.telnetd processes.
|
| BTW it's a P5-120 w/ Linux 2.1.21 & 24M of RAM

Removing some of the /dev/tty* files should prevent people from logging in
onto those tty's.

------------------------------

From: Frank Sweetser <rasm...@ernie.WPI.EDU>
Subject: Re: Port 146
Date: 22 Jul 1997 11:34:05 -0400

tba...@xs4all.nl (t. bakker) writes:

| Hi all,
|
| I was wondering. Standard setup of RedHat 4.1 enables the entrance of port 146
| (I believe) which offers a nice intrance for the average hacker who has a
| simple script.
| At the point the hacker enters the computer on this port, NO log whatsoever is
| generated and the hacker just gets a nice root-shell -> rm -r * (???)
| What service exactly is running on this port (remote mount maybe?) and what
| can I do to prevent people from entering?
|

Um.... port 146 is unused on the severl redhat machines I've used.... Can
you actually do 'telnet localhost 146'? If so, that means that someone put
it there. Which means someone else has root.

If so, what does /etc/services say about port 146? and what does
/etc/inetd.conf say about that service?

------------------------------

From: he...@os.inf.tu-dresden.de (Heiko Schlittermann)
Subject: Re: NO DIALTONE problem
Date: 4 Aug 1997 12:36:38 +0200

In article <33E59D...@e5.ijs.si>, Arso Savanovic <ar...@e5.ijs.si> wrote:
|I'm trying to dial-up my ISP, but I cannot get the call through. I keep
|getting NO DIALTONE messages, although dialtone can be heard from my
|external modem. I used Kermit 6.0 for (manual, I'm at the early stages
|of setting up the connection) dialing, with carrier-watch option set to
|off, but NO DIALTONE is where I stop. How to proceed?

Do you need a dial prefix? Most modems can't recognise the internal
dialtone as such. Try ATX3 (or similar, check your modem manual about
suppressing error codes.)

Heiko
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From: ra...@saturn.superlink.net (ramki)
Subject: Re: TERM: does it work under ELF?
Date: 29 Jul 1997 23:30:06 -0400

It does work under ELF . Just needs some minor modification.

1. Makefile changes to handle ELF shared library creation.
2. Some minor code changes to use stdargs/varargs instead of
guessing position of function params on stack.
2. Termify no longer possible.
Alternatively
a. Use port redirection using tredir.
b. If you have source code use the --include approach described
in the docs.
Tried it with Apache(listening to localhost:8080), set Netscape proxy
to localhost:8080) and it works pretty well.
Similary ncftp also works this way (its make auto config has a
term aware support switch).

BTW - I use TERM/SLIRP(much easier to setup and use) if there is no PPP
support at the remote host end.

------------------------------

From: dper...@celerity.com (Don Peruski)
Subject: Re: Quake play through IP-Masq
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:15:56 GMT

In article <5rad7i$5vv$4...@news.usit.net>, dper...@celerity.com (Don Peruski) wrote:
|Ok...I know this is low-priority, but I was playing with IP masq the other
|night. Worked great! I got a little brave and decided to try a Quake game on
|my Win95 machine. It said connected, but looking at my ISDN device, the
|lights were going back and forth pretty slowly. Has anyone been able to do
|this, or am I asking too much of this IP masq deal?

Thanks for the responses all. The quake_masq deal works perfectly! Now,
getting Samba stable and getting that darn Telnet working!

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Subject: Linux-Networking Digest #319

Linux-Networking Digest #319, Volume #6 Sat, 2 Aug 97 23:13:27 EDT

Contents:
RX-OVR and TX-OVR (Gordon Man)
Re: question about kernel 2.0.30. (Matej Pfajfar)
Re: ppp & chat scripts for AT&T's worldnet service??? (Tom)
Re: ppp & chat scripts for AT&T's worldnet service??? (Han Q. Nguyen)
Re: Local Webserver ("Matt Houser")
Re: Setting up Linux as a Print Server (How?) (Robert Kiesling)
Re: help:Soundblaster 16pnp vs NIC card (Bjarne Nygaard)
unsolvable dip error? (Ralph Holm)
Linux and Time Warner's RR Cable modem service ("James Rutter")
Re: Ethernet Hardware Addresses (Mason Wright)
Re: identd + masquerading (Rick Myers)

3C900 Netword card problems (Marc Jourdeuil)

HELP pap-secrets!!! (Monty)
Re: Modules and more than one NIC (Frank Sweetser)
Re: Where to get Netscape for linux ? (VP of Sales to Spammers)
men men where are you? (ju...@timms.uk)
Linux For An ISP Experiment. ("" <conc...@usa.net>)
replace NW3.1x Server w/LINUX? (Dick Erlacher)
Re: Is there still a limit to IP-Aliases? (Maarten van Rossen)
Re: Linux firewall/routing (James Youngman)
Re: Inter EtherExpress Networking Cards ("William T Styne")

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

From: gm...@fireopal.empress.com (Gordon Man)
Subject: RX-OVR and TX-OVR
Date: 2 Aug 1997 03:21:37 GMT

Hi,

I have a 33.6 modem connecting to my office through CSLIP.
The speed is set to 38400 is the dip file.
It works but netstat -i shows this:

Kernel Interface table
Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flags

lo 3584 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BLRU
sl0 2048 0 7537 0 0 2612 7762 0 0 7452 PRU

The ratio between TX-OK and TX-OVR (also RX-OK and RX-OVR) is pretty high.
I don't think that's normal.

Can anyone tell me why and how to fix that?
Please send me email if possible. THank you.

--
Gordon Man
gm...@empress.com

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From: Matej Pfajfar <badb...@writeme.com>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.act.kernel,linux.dev.kernel,list.linux-activists.kernel
Subject: Re: question about kernel 2.0.30.

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:30:38 +0200

Well, you installed the modules but didn't compile .
Do make modules and make modules_install .
That will compile the modules and put them to /lib/modules/2.0.30 .

badbytes

On 30 Jul 1997, Cvrchack wrote:

|
| I'd like to know why I get this error messages after rebooting machine with
| new kernel, compiled with 2.0.30 source package (linux-2.0.30.tar.gz) ?
| I've also installed module package modules-2_0_30_tar.gz.
|
| Can't locate module lp
| /lib/modules/2.0.30/net/slip.o
| /lib/modules/2.0.30/net/ppp.o

------------------------------

From: Tom <rdo...@worldnet.att.net>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.ppp,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ppp & chat scripts for AT&T's worldnet service???
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 12:48:14 -0600

Makis Gaitanidis wrote:
|
| Hi,
|
| I am able to dial up to my ISP (AT&T's worldnet) but I have problems
| starting my ppp & chat scripts. (My kernel is compiled with pppd
| support). I suspect that my login and password pair is not get accepted.
| Note that I can connect fine through NT. I am new to linux so I don't
| really know how to troubleshoot things.
|
| I would greatly appreciate if someone could email me his ppp and chat
| scripts for connecting to AT&T worldnet or any other ISP. Should I exit
| minicom without reseting the modem before I execute the scripts? I am
| using RH linux 4.2.
|
| Thanks a lot,
| Makis Gaitanidis

go to the att worldnet site. They have an excellent linux ppp
connection guide. they are using the chap protocol and the paper
outlines how to set it up.

tom.

------------------------------

From: hng...@mail.att.net (Han Q. Nguyen)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.ppp,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ppp & chat scripts for AT&T's worldnet service???
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 20:31:19 GMT
Reply-To: hng...@mail.att.net

On Sat, 02 Aug 1997 14:41:51 +0100, Makis Gaitanidis
<mak...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

|Hi,
|
|I am able to dial up to my ISP (AT&T's worldnet) but I have problems
|starting my ppp & chat scripts. (My kernel is compiled with pppd
|support). I suspect that my login and password pair is not get accepted.
|Note that I can connect fine through NT. I am new to linux so I don't
|really know how to troubleshoot things.
|
|I would greatly appreciate if someone could email me his ppp and chat
|scripts for connecting to AT&T worldnet or any other ISP. Should I exit
|minicom without reseting the modem before I execute the scripts? I am
|using RH linux 4.2.
|
|Thanks a lot,
|Makis Gaitanidis
|
|

I used to also use dialers such as minicom and seyon to connect up to
WorldNet but have found the Perl script provided at WorldNet User
Reference Desk much more convenient to use. You can find this script
at:
http://204.127.237.208/wurd/software/dialers/linux.html

------------------------------

From: "Matt Houser" <mwho...@interlog.com>
Subject: Re: Local Webserver
Date: 2 Aug 1997 19:43:30 GMT

Check out apache web server... it's free and it's good

www.apache.org

Jules <mind...@cableinet.co.uk> wrote in article
<01bc9f5c$089ac6a0$LocalHost@father-jack>...

| Can anyone point me in the right direction in my quest to setup a local
| webserver.

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From: kies...@terracom.net (Robert Kiesling)
Subject: Re: Setting up Linux as a Print Server (How?)
Date: 2 Aug 1997 21:53:28 GMT

In article <5rvq1r$q...@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com>, Jennifer Evans

<pt...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

| Hello All-

|
| I'm running version 2.0 of Slackware 96 LINUX in a production
environment as a BOOTP server.
| I'd like to make it into a Print Server as well.
|
| What steps do I need to take to make this happen? (I am familiar
with networking, subnet
| masks, etc, so the answer can be fairly technical). Thanks!!
|

| Jennifer Evans
|
| jennife...@lamrc.com
| pt...@ix.netcom.com

I would look at the package "rlpr" at ftp://ftp.sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/
systems/network. That should let you specify both the hostname and the
printer.

Unfortunately, with this setup, a filter program, especially APS-filter is
out of the picture, I'm afraid. They are simply aren'te configured to
cope with network situations.

Alternatively, you can set up a local ppp client-server and use rsh to
spool to a local daemon on the print server. I believe that uux, over a
local uucp connect, would do the same.

HTH

Robert (Bob)

kies...@terracom.net
Robert_A....@macline.com

...No writing gig too small...

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From: Bjarne Nygaard <b...@post4.tele.N.O.S.P.A.M.dk>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: help:Soundblaster 16pnp vs NIC card
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 23:18:31 +0200

Hi..

Tod Glenn wrote:
|
| Greetings,
|
| I'm having a problen setting up redhat linux networking. The installer
| won't recognize the NIC card (3comm 3c509). After some experimentation, I
| tried removing the sound card, and voila, the nic works. Anyone know a
| fix? I tried using the creative config utility, but there doesn't seem to
| be an easy way to disable pnp.

I have not configured your PnP soundcard, I think you have the problem
there. :(

1. Look at the package isapnpXXX or something on sunsite.unc.edu.
2. Compile your kernel for soundsupport and
3. configure it for loadable modules.

This way you may be able to both use the sound card and the NIC.
This spring I bought a SB16-PnP and had to do that stunt. :)
If you want more then ask. :)

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| If you would email me remove NOSPAM in the address |
| ---this space is not intentionally left blank--- |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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From: ra...@cs.mun.ca (Ralph Holm)
Subject: unsolvable dip error?
Date: 2 Aug 1997 21:41:23 GMT

I've seen this dip question posted a few times now, and I've also posted
it with no solution forthcoming..

When I try to invoke dip (with any arguments at all), it always returns:
drunk: Hostname lookup failure
(drunk is my machine name)

Has anyone been able to solve this? I've reinstalled the package, and
recompiled the program from scratch with the same results.

Thanks,
Ralph Holm
ho...@engr.mun.ca

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From: "James Rutter" <jru...@neo.lrun.com>
Subject: Linux and Time Warner's RR Cable modem service
Date: 2 Aug 1997 23:24:18 GMT

I have a problem.

I have Time Warner's Road Runner cable modem service in Akron, Ohio. The
service relies on a windows (or macintosh) session manager to handle all of
the traffic.. so you have to login to RR to use it (no big deal, it's
pretty much transparent after that). Now, there is no current linux
session manager for the Akron area, because they use a Kerberos and some
other type of protection/authenticiation. I've got kerberos working fine,
and can even get tickets.. But the 'something else' still won't allow me to
get packets out or in. So... if I supplied tcpdump logs, would anybody
here be able to look at them and determine what all is required?

Thanks

Jim

jru...@neo.lrun.com

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From: Mason Wright <mas...@qnet.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Ethernet Hardware Addresses

Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 15:48:51 -0700

Zack Williams wrote:
|
| How do I find the hardware address of my Ethernet Card?
| Is it written on the card? Hidden somewhere in the /proc fs?
|

/sbin/ifconfig with now other command line options. Or check your bootup
logs. I believe if it is detected it may be written there.

Mason

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From: Rick Myers <r...@rtfm.ml.org>
Subject: Re: identd + masquerading

Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 19:23:52 -0400

Douglas Gilbert wrote:
|
| Is there a version of identd that works with masquerading or is
| it important that it returns "NO-USER" for security reasons. If so,
| what if the other end objects?
|

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/daemons/identd-masquerade.tgz

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From: Marc Jourdeuil <ma...@nortel.ca>
Subject: 3C900 Netword card problems
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 17:42:12 -0400

I have a PCI 3Com Etherlink XL 3c900 combo
(BNC/AUI/TP) card 10 Mbps

IRQ 11 I/O range D800-D83F

I am using Linux RedHat v4.1a, Kernel 2.0.27

I am using the 3c59x driver (vortex).
and autoprobe

Linux is unable to select the port on my network
card the network is connected to (AUI 10BASE5).
It tries 10BASET, then 2, then stops.

The error I get from Linux is:

eth0: Tramsmitter access conflict
/var/logs/messages:
It autoselected 10baseT interface.
I'm using a microtransceiver on the AUI port.
It says Media 10baseT is has no link beat, 80c0
Media selection failed, now trying 10base2
Media selection timer finished, 10base2
Media selection timer tick happened, 10base2
Media 10base2 is has no indication, 4810
Media selection timer tick happened, 10base2

I am also using Win95, and have no problem accessing
the network via 10BASE5 port.

I have seen something that may help:

Problem: The supplied 3c503 drivers don't use the AUI
(thicknet) port. How does one
choose it over the default thinnet port?

Solution: The 3c503 AUI port can be selected at boot-time
with 0.99pl12 and later. The
selection is overloaded onto the low bit of the currently-
unused dev->rmem_start variable, so
a boot-time parameter of:
LILO: linux ether=0,0,0,1,eth0

should work. A boot line to force IRQ 5, port base 0x300,
and use an external transceiver is:

LILO: linux ether=5,0x300,0,1,eth0

With kernels 1.3.42 and newer, you can specify the AUI port
when loading as a module as
well. Just append xcvr=1 to the insmod command line along
with your i/o and irq values.

If anyone has a solution, it would be much appreciated.

Regards,
Marc
ma...@nortel.ca

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From: Monty <mo...@mnl.sequel.net>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: HELP pap-secrets!!!
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 19:06:55 +0800
Reply-To: mo...@mnl.sequel.net

Hello,

Could anyone help me how to use the pap-secrets when dialing up
to my ISP.

I'm still using "pppd ... +ua <password.file>", I think this is
obseleted by pap-secrets file.

Send replies to mo...@mnl.sequel.net

Thanks

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From: Frank Sweetser <rasm...@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Subject: Re: Modules and more than one NIC
Date: 31 Jul 1997 09:10:38 -0400

Ashley Barnett <bar...@sunrock.tamu.edu> writes:

| I am currently using Linux RedHat 4.2 to route between several networks.
| I am using 3com 3c509 cards and I have built the 3c509 driver into the
| kernel. Has anyone managed to use modules with multiple 3com cards? If
| so, how?

I don't recall the exact syntax, but the redhat setup tries to do something
like

options eth0 irq=xxx io=xxx
options eth1 irq=xxx io=xxx

while the way that works is something like

options 3c509 irq=xxx,xxx io=xxx,xxx

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From: jsj...@netmcr.com (VP of Sales to Spammers)
Subject: Re: Where to get Netscape for linux ?
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 21:05:37 GMT

In article <01bc9e97$31176b80$907ecec2@info.p>,
Prygiel P.M. <ppry...@nordnet.fr> wrote:

|Hello,
|
|Could somedy tell me where i could get Netscape for Linux ?

It is a violation of Netscape's copyright to redistribute their
browsers without a redistribution license. Therefore, get the
browser from Netscape.

ftp://ftp.mcom.com/
pub/navigator/gold/3.01/unix/unsupported/
netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz

My From: line is a parody of a public figure, not a "forgery."
Mr. Jones became a public figure when he decided to sell Internet
access to Cyber Promotions, the net's most prominent sender of
unsolicited commercial email.

The folks in my .sig are full time lobbyists for the spammers.

Cameron Spitzer in San Jose, cls at truffula. sj. ca. us.
http://www.rahul.net/cameron/linux/
--
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Subject: men men where are you?
Date: 27 Jul 1997 13:45:35 GMT

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From: "<-------->" <conc...@usa.net>
Crossposted-To: linux.admin.isp
Subject: Linux For An ISP Experiment.
Date: 31 Jul 1997 09:44:12 GMT

X-No-Archive:yes
Hi,
I need some information about the linux OS.What version of linux is best

suited for An ISP operation.Is the Linux OS,secure enough for an ISP,(well

i know some use it so i guess it must be),can it be used for a web

server,ftp,telnet,ppp,etc....,Im doing some research any feedback is
appreciated.

Thanks

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From: edick_no_...@idcomm.com (Dick Erlacher)
Subject: replace NW3.1x Server w/LINUX?
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 02:04:27 GMT
Reply-To: edick_no_...@idcomm.com

I've heard that there's some new software for LINUX available now, which would
facilitate replacement of a Netware 3.1x server with a LINUX box.

Where can I obtain precise details about what that will and will not
accomplish? Does one have to install different drivers on the attached
workstations? Will it share a modem between stations on the LAN? Can it
function as a proxy server?

Are there other alternatives? Is there a convenient (and no-cost)
TCP/IP-based package for DOS/Windows which allows the LINUX box to serve
files?

Where can precise and complete details be found?

Please reply via email. This requires you remove the spam repellent from the quoted email address. Thanks

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From: m...@vr.xs4all.nl (Maarten van Rossen)

Subject: Re: Is there still a limit to IP-Aliases?
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 09:13:45 GMT
Reply-To: m...@vr.xs4all.nl

|: > Well, what web server are you using? You can bind apache tp several
|: >different interfaces I believe. Just get a second ethernet card.
|
|: Or rely on ``ipless'' virtual servers, as I do. It works find, except
|: for some very old browsers. But it's very easy to convince theses
|: people to use newer ones --- they're almost ever win-user at upgrading
|: is a thing they're familar with ...
|
|This is both true, but does not answer my question.
|I dislike both solutions because on the one hand I believe it is stupid to
|have 2 cards in one machine that are on the same network segment and on
|the other hand I do not want to install ipless websites as long as there
|are still browsers that can not cope with this feature.
|
|
|Doc Holiday
Well that means you will have to hack the kernel.
|
|------------------------------------------------------------
|| MS-DOS: Malformed System - (D)elete (O)verwrite (S)cream |
|------------------------------------------------------------

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From: James Youngman <JYou...@vggas.com>
Subject: Re: Linux firewall/routing
Date: 25 Jul 1997 16:10:27 +0100

Tom Hutton <thu...@sprynet.com> writes:

| I've got a class C network that I need to install a couple of Linux
| firewalls on, along with a router as diagrammed below:
|
| -------- ------------ -------- --------- --------------
| | Inet | | Linux | | News | | Email | | WWW Server |
| | |---| Bridge | -------- --------- --------------
| | | | Firewall |-----------|----------|------------|
| -------- ------------ |
| |
| ------------------------------
| | Linux Bridge / Firewall |
| ------------------------------
| / / | \ \
| / / | \ \
| 30 30 WS 30 WS 30 WS 30 WS
| Workst'ns
|
|
| The first firewall will filter some ports, and the second
| bridge/firewall will filter more extensively, and route traffic to 5
| ethernet networks.
|
| The problem is that I have a single class C network,

The internal machines don't have to have valid Internet addresses, you
can Masquerade them; see RFC 1918.

| and as I understand
| the routed documentation, it looks at the netmask to determine how to
| route a packet.

One generally doesn't run routed (or gated) on a firewall.

Start by reading the Masquerading HOWTO and Cheswick & Bellovin's
"Building Internet Firewalls".

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From: "William T Styne" <wst...@inassau.cv.net>
Subject: Re: Inter EtherExpress Networking Cards
Date: 30 Jul 1997 02:45:23 GMT

Gary,

If you have the 10Mbs ISA EtherExpress Pro 10 like I do, try loading the
module for this card: at the Linux prompt type: insmod eepro irq=<your
irq> io=<your card address>.

If you use LOADLIN (like I do) and have support built in to the kernel, add
this line
to your LOADLIN params file:

ether=10,0x310,eth0

In my case, 10 is the irq, and 0x310 is the address in hex.

Good Luck,

Bill Styne

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