OT Tunning your network

Well sorry for this OT question .. well i have a 100mbps LAN with utp cable & 100mbps switch hubs .. connecting about 60 + pc together. there are all flavours of O/S running Linux , Windows & Unix . the name resolution is done by DNS . there is a local webserver Apache running that provides media

Streaming server for linux

Does debian linux has a streaming server ? i mean like win2000 has windows media server ? so that i can broadcast my mp3,s & video mpg,s on networks with multicast enabled ? also if it is available , is it stable ? easy to configure ? & present on any cd of debian ? thankx = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨

Ot c++ programming in linux

Well i am a newbie learning c++ these days we are being thaught on turbo c 3.0 but as like other things i want to work on c++ in linux .. so i installed gcc on my linux box but i dont have any idea how to install it for example i write a program as follows in turbo c #include #include void main (v

OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....

well sorry fro this but i couldent find any other place to ask this question & i need the salution very badly this will gratly benift me well i have 2 ethernet networks running which i want to connect but the distance between them is above 400 meters .. so this is way beyond the normal lan hardwar

OT network hardware related questions ?

can you guys plz tell me any site where i can ask network hardware related questions ? questions about data transmission lenth, diff network devices ? thanks = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Offic

when is debian 3.0 coming out ?

does anyone knows the release date of debian 3.0 told by the debian people ? = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCR

activating ipchains & ip masqurading ...

i have installed debian 2.2 in my server now i want to activete ipchains & ip masqurading on it ... how should i do this ? thanks in advance Faisal = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partne

installing debian kernal source

i installed debian 2.2 from a cdrom but the installation didnt install kernal source now i want to install some new hardware & it wants kernal source .. how can i install it from the cdrom ? thanks = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __

starting a Debian based company..

Well i wana start a company here in pakistan giving out network salutions to the corporate companies .. mainly because corporate companies mostly uses M$ solutions here .. so i was thinking as pakistan is a developing country & M$ salution are very expensive here .. so companies should benift here

help me with dailing out "never thaught it would be so difficult"

well i am going nuts with this dailing out a ppp connection from command prompt .. i was thinking that tools like wvdial & pppconfig will work like a charme for me but it seems that both these tools are unable to find my modem .. which is located @ /dev/ttyS2 as on the same system i have mandr

Re: how to create a link of another directory in home directory ...2

what is the diffrence between a symbolic & a hard link ?   thanks for the reply     Dayalan Manohar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi,try man ln to read the help.the command isln -s /other/directory /home/faisal/linknameln -s is to create a symbolic link.without s option hard link is created.hth,day

how to create a link of another directory in home directory ...

i want to create a link of another directory in my home directory .. as i dont want to type huge command to reach there .. i do know how to create from gui mode .. but i wana create it in the command mode ..   thanks*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - pla

reposting pppconfig problem ... output of the plog file..

here is to a freind who wanted me to repost .. as he missed this post .. thanks for the help ..   as i told earlier that i cannot dial using pppconfig i>> i type pon & nothing happens >> here is what is present in the plog>> server pppd [255] : Terminating on signal 15> server pppd [255] : Conn

Re: plog messages tell me what does it mean

    ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 25 April 2002 08:22 pm, faisal gillani wrote:> as i told earlier that i cannot dial using pppconfig i>> i type pon & nothing happens >> here is what is present in the plog>> server pppd [255] : Terminating

Re: plog messages tell me what does it mean

  ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 25 April 2002 08:22 pm, faisal gillani wrote:> as i told earlier that i cannot dial using pppconfig i>> i type pon & nothing happens >> here is what is present in the plog>> server pppd [255] : Terminating

Re: plog messages tell me what does it mean

"providers"   thanks for the reply Faisal    ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 25 April 2002 08:22 pm, faisal gillani wrote:> as i told earlier that i cannot dial using pppconfig i>> i type pon & nothing happens >> here is what is present in the plog&g

plog messages tell me what does it mean

as i told earlier that i cannot dial using pppconfig i i type pon &  nothing happens here is what is present in the plog server pppd [255] : Terminating on signal 15server pppd [255] : Connect Script failedserver pppd [255] : Exit can you tell me what does this mean ? thanks      *º¤., ¸¸,.¤

ppp help needed

well i configure my connection by pppconfig & name the entry after i gave all the input in it .. then i use pon to dail like this # pon    but it doesnt seems to work but when i enter # pon  it gives out phone tone but still dont dail ... i think it use the provider file ... i want to know does

Is this enough ?

Well i have a machine which is intel 200 mhz with 32 mb ram sitting in my backward can i use it as a debain + apache web server on my network for small load "30 users to be exact "of users ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings

success story

i am a windows network administrator & about a month ago on one of my network i placed a debian linux server + apache webserver on the other hand i had a windows 2000 server running Ms ISA server the place on which these servers are running have some power outage problems that are beyond my contro

USB Modem On debian

Well i have a USB Modem "Creative Modem blaster" can i use it with debian 2.2 ? is there anyone out there using it ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

OT Any web site that teaches how to make LAN cable connection

is there Any web site that teaches how to make LAN cable connection i mean like cross over & straight wires ? also you can ask question lelated to cabeling ? thanks Faisal __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http:/

Re: ppp newbie question "SOLVED"

THANK YOU ALL FOR SOLVING MY PROBLEM ... --- Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, faisal gillani wrote: > > > Well i am a user of debian potato linux > > i just made my first ppp script by pppconfig .. > > now can

Re: ppp newbie question "SOLVED"

THANK YOU ALL FOR SOLVING MY PROBLEM ... --- Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, faisal gillani wrote: > > > Well i am a user of debian potato linux > > i just made my first ppp script by pppconfig .. > > now can

ppp newbie question

Well i am a user of debian potato linux i just made my first ppp script by pppconfig .. now can you tell me how can i dail my connction & hungup my connection ? also is there a utility to detect your modem ? so that my modem comes in the ifconfig -a command ? thanks Faisal __

Instant messenger service for debian linux

Is there any Instant messenger service for linux ? i wana install a messenger service in my network environment for users to chat within my network thanks Faisal __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.ya

power off again sorry i missed the previous one

Well guys soory i missed the previous post about how to power off your system with the halt command using lilo.conf .. can you repeate it please .. i tried man lilo.conf but couldent find anything thanks Faisal __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports -

package install problem

Can anyone tell me what this mean when i install this package with dpkg ? debian:~# dpkg -i fetchmailconf.deb dpkg-deb: unexpected end of file in version number in fetchmailconf.deb dpkg: error processing fetchmailconf.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 E

removing exim & installing sendmail in debian

Well debian comes with builtin exim mailer deamon which is good but i want to replace it with sendmail mainly cause i have bought its book but i cant remove the package as it keeps giving me dependicies problem .. so how can i remove it & install send mail in it place ? anyone out there ?

Help with PPP Script

I am a Windows Administrator trying to switch to Linux Before i replaced my IIS web server with Apache & liked it very much . Now i want to replace my Windows Firewall/Proxy Server with linux ones . On the first step I got a Linux compatible Modem but am really stuck on this ppp script thing can s

syntax of interfaces file

Thank you all for telling me about the resolv.conf file .. also i want some help on the interfaces file well i added an interface after i install linux .. but now i have to ifconfig manullay everytime i boot .. i want to put its setting in this interface file which @ this time only have entry for

sample resolv.conf

My resolv.conf file is missing .. can anyone give a sample file so i can use ? thanks Faisal __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com

Where to put dns server & default gateway address ?

Hello list i have just installed debian 2.2 on my system ..i was very impress by the simple setup program & configuration ... i only want to know where to put dns server & default gateway address ? thanks Faisal "newbie" __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FR