Re: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets

2001-08-05 Thread Brandon Caudle
Here are some articles Cable modems transmitting Ethernet broadcast packets to every subscriber on the neighborhood are a significant vulnerability, easily exploited by a technically savvy attacker. For example, using a freely available program called arpwatch, I can scan for the ARP packets

Re: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets

2001-08-05 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, 'Glenn Johnson' wrote: On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 01:06:12AM -0400, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: It's unlikely that this is a problem given the relatively ARP low rate you are getting. A normal Cable modem node may have over 10,000 users. The head-end system has to

RE: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets

2001-08-05 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
If you want to REALLY see what's going on, open an Xterm Window and fire up iptraf (which runs in text mode) as the root user. In it's configuration screen turn on PROMISCUOUS mode and Reverse DNS resolution. The go to IP Traffic Monitor for the interface connected to your Cable modem. You'll

Re: [expert] Ext2 - ReiserFS ?

2001-08-05 Thread Lars Roland Kristiansen
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Sevatio wrote: I'm considering a switch from Ext2 to ReiserFS or anything better than Ext2. Currently I'm LM8.0. What's your opinion on the stability of the Reiser File System? Is there an improvement for Ext2 on the horizon? What software would be best at

Re: [expert] BASH

2001-08-05 Thread Thomas Sourmail
Can i make bash ask me - when i use rm -rf. remove the f ! if that doesn't work, try 'unalias rm' Thomas.

Re: [expert] BASH

2001-08-05 Thread Simon
Can i make bash ask me - when i use rm -rf. If you logon a shell, typically the shell will a file called, say, .bashrc, in your home directory. Most of the linux distribution alias rm to rm -i if the user is root. man rm you will see. Yours, Simon.

Re: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets

2001-08-05 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 10:57 AM 08/05/2001 -0400, Pierre Fortin wrote: Glenn Johnson wrote: Why would these arp requests occur as a steady stream, all going to primarily one machine it looks like? This just started today. I usually see an occasional flash of the activity light on the cable modem but the

Re: [expert] How to change IRQ number????

2001-08-05 Thread DM
check if your bios can control the assigning of the IRQ ... some bioses can do that. --- X - A - W - K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have LM 8.0 on my laptop and I have problems with PCMCIA card. It looks like sound card and PCMCIA card bus have the same IRQ numbre (according to the

Re: [expert] Mouse locks up in KDE

2001-08-05 Thread DM
hi Larry i have a similar problem when i first used mdk8... X hangs up as soon as its loaded... and the keyboard is hanged too. cant ctrl-alt-fX to any console. i have verified that even though X is hanged, i can still login thru the network and make a proper shutdown. i figured that on my

Re: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets

2001-08-05 Thread DM
could this be really CODE RED in action? the worm scans the range of ips of an infected machine and verifies if there are MIIS lying around to conquer. i got a lot of those funny default.idaXXX something on my apache logs and they are coming from a variety of ip addresses ... of which when i

Re: [expert] PCI IRQ conflict?

2001-08-05 Thread etharp
what is the output of cat /proc/pci (without the quotes) that might give us a little more info... might be USB? On Friday 03 August 2001 07:44, George Petri wrote: Hello! I am using Mandrake 7.2 After I compiled a 2.4.4 kernel (not from Mandrake, but the official one), I get this

Re: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets

2001-08-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
DM wrote: could this be really CODE RED in action? the worm scans the range of ips of an infected machine and verifies if there are MIIS lying around to conquer. i got a lot of those funny default.idaXXX something on my apache logs and they are coming from a variety of ip addresses

Re: [expert] How to change IRQ number????

2001-08-05 Thread X - A - W - K
It looks like bios doesn' control assigning of irqs. At least there is no any option to do it. - Original Message - From: DM [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 11:08 AM Subject: Re: [expert] How to change IRQ number check if your bios can

[expert] MDK80 on Pentium 200 MMX WITH USB CARD

2001-08-05 Thread pierfrancesco
Hi, I have installed successfully MDK80 on Pentium 200MMX I was thinking to use USB and so inserted a card in the system ( VIA Chipset ) But sometimes it locks completely the system with original kernel distribution 2.4.3 e 2.2.19 .. it was hard to discover until I

Re: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets

2001-08-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 05 August 2001 11:20, DM wrote: could this be really CODE RED in action? the worm scans the range of ips of an infected machine and verifies if there are MIIS lying around to conquer. i got a lot of those funny default.idaXXX

Re: [expert] Ext2 - ReiserFS ?

2001-08-05 Thread Steve Kieu
--- Lars Roland Kristiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Sevatio wrote: I'm considering a switch from Ext2 to ReiserFS or anything better than Ext2. Currently I'm LM8.0. What's your opinion on the stability of the Reiser File System? Is there an improvement for

Re: [expert] Lightweight window managers

2001-08-05 Thread Brian Schroeder
I use FVWM2, and have for quite a few years now. I tried the more recent versions of KDE and Gnome, and have tried Afterstep, Icewm, XFCE, Qvwm, and a few others, but have gone back to fvwm. Fvwm2 is now on version 2.4, and I find it very configurable. I can do whatever I want with it, and can

[expert] Mandrake Control Center broken

2001-08-05 Thread Chuck Lalli
I am having trouble with the Mandrake Control Center, it is not affecting the changes I am making. I had to reinstall LM8.0 freq2 after a few problems. Now I am finding that I cannot set my mouse correctly, I set it to a wheel mouse in MCC and edit the XFConfig-4 file for a wheel mouse,

[expert] BASH

2001-08-05 Thread Lars Roland Kristiansen
Can i make bash ask me - when i use rm -rf. ___ Mvh./Yours sincerely Lars Lars Roland Kristiansen | Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Stud. Scient. Mathematics | TLF(home):39699914 - 116

Re: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets

2001-08-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
Glenn Johnson wrote: Why would these arp requests occur as a steady stream, all going to primarily one machine it looks like? This just started today. I usually see an occasional flash of the activity light on the cable modem but the activity light is almost burning steady now. Here is a

[expert] How to change IRQ number????

2001-08-05 Thread X - A - W - K
Hi, I have LM 8.0 on my laptop and I have problems with PCMCIA card. It looks like sound card and PCMCIA card bus have the same IRQ numbre (according to the dmesg|more). I don't know if it is possible, but it looks like. System does recognize CardBus, but can't detect it o something like that

[expert] Mouse locks up in KDE

2001-08-05 Thread Larry Alkoff
When I click on an icon in KDE it locks up the pointer about 20% of the time. Since ctl-alt-bs or ctl-alt-del doesn't work at all I have to hit reset. It's pretty hard to get very far into an X session without having to hit reset. GPM is not installed on my machine. This is a new Mandrake 8.0