Re: Boarding SuSE with Debian
On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 15:13, Michael Holzt wrote: [installing Debian from the outside] Yo! I'll be doing exactly this in a while, I have already tested this procedure at home and am just waiting until I can do it for real. Your guidelines seem sensible, however, I feel I did it even easier: 1. create a tar from a fully working Debian system, as described in your posting. 2. Instead of unpacking in a directory, I disabled swap on the target system and unpacked into the swap partition. 3. Recheck you got everything right: kernel, fstab, networking,... 4. install lilo to load the target system from the swap partition 5. boot 6. clean the SuSE away, copy everything from the 'swap' partition to the target partition. 7. change partitions in fstab and lilo.conf, reinstall lilo 8. boot 9. reenable swap, start installing additional packages and services etc. I feel this procedure is 'cleaner' because I really can mkfs in the procedure (changing from ext2 to reiser in the process). If I'm careful I can even fdisk and change pretty much everything I like (Additional reboot after fdisk!). The Debian base system was a 25M tar.bz2 file, sufficiently small to upload through my 64k line. In any case: test on a similar system at home first! Make sure you know wat you are doing! (Hmmm... somebody should write this scripted and spread it as a Code-Red like worm Let the Debian worm install Debian on all infected IIS installations... :-] ) cheers -- vbi -- secure email with gpg http://fortytwo.ch/gpg signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
radiusd-livingston 2.1-6
Hello all, I've recently been charged with migrating a redhat linux server running livingston radius to a new machine running debian 3.0. So far all is well except for radius. We have been unable to get it to authenticate any users when radtest'ing from a remote machine (since for some reason the package doesn't come with radtest). The proxy seems set up right, and the request comes to the machine, but it always gets this error message 'Aug 14 09:02:04 www radius[536]: auth: access-request from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/1650.159 denied for unknown user $user' where $user is a user in the passwd/shadow file and xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP of the remote machine. The startup gives this message in the auth.log Aug 14 09:01:54 www radius[534]: /usr/sbin/radiusd: Livingston RADIUS 2.1 1999/6/23 NDBM NOSHADOW dbm_users is the NOSHADOW a problem? (since shadow passwords are in use), if so how does one change that? I've been using builddbm to build the database. Here is the excerpt from my users file DEFAULT Auth-Type = System, Framed-Protocol = PPP Service-Type = Framed-User, Framed-Protocol = PPP, Framed-IP-Address = 255.255.255.254, Framed-IP-Netmask = 255.255.255.255, Framed-MTU = 1500, Framed-Routing = None, Idle-Timeout = 1200, Session-Timeout = 21600, Framed-Compression = Van-Jacobsen-TCP-IP, Port-Limit = 1 Also, specifically adding a user to the top i.e. Bob Password=blah gives the same error message as well. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Todd
Re: Boarding SuSE with Debian
Hello, a little correction:-) 7. In SuSE's lilo.conf add a section with Debian's boot and set it as default (but still leave SuSE section). Leave suse as default. Run lilo and afterwards lilo -R debianimage. Reboot. Go throu Step 8 till 13. 14. If it doesn't come up -- ask the ISP to go to the console, reset the machine and choose SuSE at lilo prompt. I hope they can do it for free. In Step 14 just ask for a Reset. cu markus
Courier-mta documentation/HOWTOs?
Hi, I've searched this list (i remember something like this popped up some(or a lot of)time ago) , and I haven't found something on $subject. I just need some pointers, where to find some docs how to setup it, what's it's performance,etc. (i'm using courier-imap and it's really good, but courier-mta seems a bit harder to understand)
Bandwidth testing
Hi all, I suspect that our upstream bandwidth providers including AGC (Asia Global Crossing) and that aren't providing us with the maximum possible bandwidth that we should be theoretically getting. We've been looking at informally made MRTG reports (yes, we know it isn't very accurate, which is why we're looking for a better way). And unless we can come up with some hard figures, the upstreams are ignoring us. I was wondering what the best way to determine maximum bandwidth thoughtput is. I've looked at bing, but it doesn't seem very accurate to me. Do you know of a tool or method which can simulate large bandwidth traffic, or can otherwise measure what maximum bandwidth thoughtput is? Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Jason
BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
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Re: Bandwidth testing
- Original Message -
From: Jason Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 6:59 PM
Subject: Bandwidth testing
Hi all,
I suspect that our upstream bandwidth providers including AGC (Asia Global
Crossing) and that aren't providing us with the maximum possible bandwidth
that we should be theoretically getting. We've been looking at informally
made MRTG reports (yes, we know it isn't very accurate, which is why we're
looking for a better way). And unless we can come up with some hard
figures, the upstreams are ignoring us.
I was wondering what the best way to determine maximum bandwidth
thoughtput is. I've looked at bing, but it doesn't seem very accurate to
me.
Do you know of a tool or method which can simulate large bandwidth
traffic, or can otherwise measure what maximum bandwidth thoughtput is?
You should take a look at the package netdiag and especially
tcp{blast,spray}.
--8-
Description: Net-Diagnostics
(trafshow,strobe,netwatch,statnet,tcpspray,tcpblast)
Netdiag contains a collection of small tools to analyze network traffic and
configuration of remote hosts (strobe). It is of invaluable help if your
system is showing strange network behaviour and you want to find out what
your network is doing.
--8-
Re: Bandwidth testing
I'd try tptest. http://www.iis.se/tptest/TPTEST2/tptest.zip (source) tptest is a client - server application for testing IP (tcp/udp) linkspeeds. Yours, Christofer On 14 Aug 2002 18:53 CEST you wrote: Hi all, I suspect that our upstream bandwidth providers including AGC (Asia Global Crossing) and that aren't providing us with the maximum possible bandwidth that we should be theoretically getting. We've been looking at informally made MRTG reports (yes, we know it isn't very accurate, which is why we're looking for a better way). And unless we can come up with some hard figures, the upstreams are ignoring us. I was wondering what the best way to determine maximum bandwidth thoughtput is. I've looked at bing, but it doesn't seem very accurate to me. Do you know of a tool or method which can simulate large bandwidth traffic, or can otherwise measure what maximum bandwidth thoughtput is? Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Databases
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,293,00.asp This URL has an interesting review of databases, which has MySQL winning. From the review it sounds that MySQL has solved the problems previously discussed here. Does anyone know of a similar benchmark test on Linux? -- I do not get viruses because I do not use MS software. If you use Outlook then please do not put my email address in your address-book so that WHEN you get a virus it won't use my address in the From field.
