[Duo2400] Re: OT: Maintaining RoadRunner Connection

2001-01-23 Thread Dan Logan
Found the webcam, have a look at http://shrimp.ncl.ac.uk/d.d.k.logan/work/ :note the 2400 mounted on a homemade armchair arm extension... I also use my 2400 for streaming music to my hifi - since shoutcast streams rarely have silence, the 2400's slight noise on the outputs hardly comes through a

[Duo2400] Re: OT: Maintaining RoadRunner Connection

2001-01-23 Thread Dan Logan
I live with one guy studying computer science and another doing networking and something so we like to have as many strange and differently configured machines in the house as possible, as well as messing around with various hardware mods... (I'm a marine biologist)... I might put some pics of t

[Duo2400] Re: OT: Maintaining RoadRunner Connection

2001-01-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Since this is already OT >>How exactly are you doing NAT??? >NAT (aka IP Masquerading) is a peice of cake with Linux (and I'm >sure is easy with Free/Open/Net BSD too). The whole tcp stack in FreeBSD is really QUICK. It's scary. I ran a ddos attack on a freebsd box in my lan across a 100bt s

[Duo2400] Re: OT: Maintaining RoadRunner Connection

2001-01-23 Thread Shaun Krislock
>How exactly are you doing NAT??? NAT (aka IP Masquerading) is a peice of cake with Linux (and I'm sure is easy with Free/Open/Net BSD too). With Linux, IP Masquerading is part of the ipchains firewall package. You just add a few lines to the config file. >I'd love to have full transparent a

[Duo2400] Re: OT: Maintaining RoadRunner Connection

2001-01-23 Thread Dan Logan
How exactly are you doing NAT??? Our house is currently using a slightly hacked NT4 proxy because it's the first thing we had handy to get the internal network up and running, but it's annoying to use and I'm currently having to run everything apart from browsers though the socks 1080 port which

[Duo2400] Re: OT: Maintaining RoadRunner Connection

2001-01-22 Thread Peter Liethen
>Are you *trying* to piss off your ISP? Yep. It was the only way to get them to listen to me. 30 minute worked fine, but it was annoying. they just kept telling me: "No, it a Mac/Unix problem, all of our Windows systems work fine with that DHCP server. Windows is never wrong. Windows is our go

[Duo2400] Re: OT: Maintaining RoadRunner Connection

2001-01-22 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 23/01/01 01:43, chuck goolsbee at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> on 22/01/01 23:48, Peter Liethen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> It >>> requests a lease refresh every 30 seconds. Keep their DHCP server on >>> it toes :-) I kept this up until they asked why I was doing it, about >>> two hours of a

[Duo2400] Re: OT: Maintaining RoadRunner Connection

2001-01-22 Thread chuck goolsbee
>on 22/01/01 23:48, Peter Liethen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >It > > requests a lease refresh every 30 seconds. Keep their DHCP server on > > it toes :-) I kept this up until they asked why I was doing it, about > > two hours of arguing later, I had a static IP :-) > >Peter, > >What firewall box

[Duo2400] Re: OT: Maintaining RoadRunner Connection

2001-01-22 Thread Peter Liethen
>What firewall box are you using? I'm using an Linksys Etherfast Cable / DSL >router. Any chance that I could turn the DHCP lease refresh to 30 seconds >too? It is a Digital Multia Alpha workstation that I have configured to run Red hat Linux 6.2 with ipchains for firewalling, port forwarding a

[Duo2400] Re: OT: Maintaining RoadRunner Connection

2001-01-22 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 22/01/01 23:48, Peter Liethen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I'm accessing the Net through a RoadRunner cable connection. It is >> routed through a MacSense router to a 2400 w/OS8.6 and a Win95 >> laptop. >> >> While the Win95 box maintains its connection without a problem, the >> 2400 will

[Duo2400] Re: OT: Maintaining RoadRunner Connection

2001-01-22 Thread Peter Liethen
>I'm accessing the Net through a RoadRunner cable connection. It is >routed through a MacSense router to a 2400 w/OS8.6 and a Win95 >laptop. > >While the Win95 box maintains its connection without a problem, the >2400 will often act as if the connection is barely awake...or >disconnected. Thi