Re: question connecting fedora to comcast

2005-08-25 Thread Frank DiPrete
sorry for the top-post here's the problem: GATEWAY=192.168.1.98 it should be 192.168.1.1 (default) dns server in /etc/resolv.conf should also be 192.168.1.1 On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 22:28 -0400, Tatara wrote: Frank, my system-config-network screens are shown at the bottom. Scott, my computer is

Re: system excercising/burn-in tests?

2005-08-25 Thread Paul Lussier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark) writes: > It especially tests the drives, just like you orginally asked for. True, and I suppose with smartd enabled, syslog would be a good indicator of drive errors. > BTW, many of the folks I work with use these: > >http://www.thermotron.com/products/ben

802.3ad

2005-08-25 Thread Michael ODonnell
Anybody here got 802.3ad running? If so, which kernel are you running and what switch are you using? I've got an RHAT box (RHEL4AS with a 2.6.9 kernel plus a raft of RHAT patches) trying to dance the LACP dance with an Extreme (brand) switch that seems to work OK with Windows as the 802.3ad clie

Re: system excercising/burn-in tests?

2005-08-25 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Aug 25, 2005, at 11:24, Paul Lussier wrote: One idea that comes to mind is this: (while /bin/true ; do sync ; sleep 3 ; done) & cd /usr/src/linux while /bin/true ; do make clean && make -j 4 all modules ; done This doesn't really test that much though, cpu, disk i/o, maybe some memory, but

Re: system excercising/burn-in tests?

2005-08-25 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Paul Lussier writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark) writes: >> (while /bin/true ; do sync ; sleep 3 ; done) & >> cd /usr/src/linux >> while /bin/true ; do make clean && make -j 4 all modules ; done > > This doesn't really test that much though, cpu, disk i/o, maybe some > memory, but compl

Re: system excercising/burn-in tests?

2005-08-25 Thread Paul Lussier
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I've use memtest86 to exercise RAM, system bus, and, to a lesser >extent, the CPU. For hard disks, I use "badblocks -v -s -w". For Hmmm, I had forgotten about badblocks. Thanks :) Of course, presumably mke2fs -c does essentially the same thin

Re: system excercising/burn-in tests?

2005-08-25 Thread Paul Lussier
Jim Kuzdrall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The military has found thermal cycling as the best way to accelerate > these failures if they are going to happen. Thermal cycling is just as > effective with the power off, greatly reducing the cost. It is also > relatively fast. You can comple

Re: system excercising/burn-in tests?

2005-08-25 Thread Paul Lussier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark) writes: > Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Does anyone here have any experience with creating system burn-in >> suites? > > One idea that comes to mind is this: > > (while /bin/true ; do sync ; sleep 3 ; done) & > cd /usr/src/linux > while /bin/tru

Re: Broadcom (was: Laptop Suggestions)

2005-08-25 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott writes: > And they still haven't figured out how to release a proper Windoze > drivers (one that doesn't have syntax violations for the RIS INF > parser). What's that? (RIS INF parser) Goggling this tells me that it is some sort of Remote Installation Service, but more than that

Re: Stupid bash scripting question

2005-08-25 Thread Michael ODonnell
>> It seems that either will do the job, I'm just wondering (for the >> purpose of my own "betterment" and improved knowledge of shell scripting >> *grin*) about advantages of either approach. The only one I've come >> with so far is that Solution 2 requires a separate process to run. > >So does

Re: connecting fedora, Followup

2005-08-25 Thread Jeff Kinz
Oop, Missed one, on the line : HOSTNAME=redline Instead of "redline" use your PC's Hostname. -- speech recognition software was used in the composition of this e-mail Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ¡Ya no mas! ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing

Re: question connecting fedora to comcast

2005-08-25 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:28:11PM -0400, Tatara wrote: > $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROTO=none > BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 > IPADDR=192.168.1.98 > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > NETWORK=192.168.1.0 > ONBOOT=yes > USERCTL=no > PEERDNS=no > TYPE=Ethernet Hi Eric, Y

DLSLUG: Monthly Meeting - September 1st

2005-08-25 Thread Bill McGonigle
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux Users Group http://www.dlslug.org/ *** The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held: