Re: [ilugd] VSNL Broadband working on Linux?

2006-01-13 Thread Nitin Gupta
Hello Abhay, I am using router based VSNL Broadband from past 4 months and it is really awesome. It has a nice speed and 99% uptime. The router works well with FC4, no need of any software or anything for it. I will suggest you to go for it :) -- Kind Regards Nitin Gupta CEO Xaprio Solutions

Re: [ilugd] VSNL Broadband working on Linux?

2006-01-13 Thread Manish Kathuria
Abhay Kedia wrote: Hello Everyone, Today I got a call from VSNL (or Tata Indicom) Broadband people. They have some attractive plans and I wish to get a connection. The executive told me that they will be providing a router for the connection but I have no idea what kind of device it will

[ilugd] NAS idea

2006-01-13 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
I have this brewing in my head for quite sometime and was wondering whether anyone was ready to try it out. I currently cant due to lack of resources but if it works you could probably earn some glory/money whatever. Basically I am looking at a Linux based NAS solution. Unless I am mistaken most

Re: [ilugd] VSNL Broadband working on Linux?

2006-01-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 13 January 2006 16:44, Nitin Gupta wrote: Hello Abhay, I am using router based VSNL Broadband from past 4 months and it is really awesome. It has a nice speed and 99% uptime. The router works well with FC4, no need of any software or anything for it. I will suggest you to go for

Re: [ilugd] VSNL Broadband working on Linux?

2006-01-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 13 January 2006 17:37, Manish Kathuria wrote: As long as your are provided with a DSL Router / Modem having an ethernet interface, you should not have any problem irrespective of the ISP or linux distribution. Yes they said that they will be supplying a DSL Router. Can you please

[ilugd] ILUG-D activity in last 7 days

2006-01-13 Thread nkapoor
Fri 13-Jan-2006 ILUG-D activity in last 7 days: = New/recent events: 0 Total events:48 = New Discussion forum postings: 1 Total postings: 779

Re: [ilugd] VSNL Broadband working on Linux?

2006-01-13 Thread Manish Kathuria
Abhay Kedia wrote: On Friday 13 January 2006 17:37, Manish Kathuria wrote: As long as your are provided with a DSL Router / Modem having an ethernet interface, you should not have any problem irrespective of the ISP or linux distribution. Yes they said that they will be supplying a DSL

Re: [ilugd] VSNL Broadband working on Linux?

2006-01-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 13 January 2006 20:49, Manish Kathuria wrote: You just have to configure the Network Card on your linux system by supplying IP Address, Netmask, Gateway and the DNS servers. This can be either done manually by editing the configuration files or using a front end provided by your

Re: [ilugd] [LIH]NAS idea

2006-01-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 05:00:19AM -0800, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: If my understanding is correct a simple NAS is: 1. A storage space available over the network 2. Fault tolerant 3. Expandable 4. Transparent 5. Compatible across OSes add 1. rack space costs (NAS / SAN devices typically have

Re: [ilugd] NAS idea

2006-01-13 Thread Manoj Kumar Mishra
Hi, The main problem with NFS is that it doesn't have common way to add users manage disk quota. I have tried for hosting automation but it has not worked. And according to Psoft have to use NetApp ( http://www.netapp.com ) for this. Regards, Manoj -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [ilugd] NAS idea

2006-01-13 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
--- Manoj Kumar Mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The main problem with NFS is that it doesn't have common way to add users manage disk quota. I have tried for hosting automation but it has not worked. And according to Psoft have to use NetApp ( http://www.netapp.com ) for this.

Re: [ilugd] NAS idea

2006-01-13 Thread Manoj Kumar Mishra
You can use NFS3 as NFS2 has locking issues while multiple clients accessing the same mnts, other wise no issue as NAS And can be consider of http://www.openfiler.com/ Regards, Manoj -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mithun Bhattacharya

Re: [ilugd] VSNL Broadband working on Linux?

2006-01-13 Thread Manish Kathuria
Abhay Kedia wrote: On Friday 13 January 2006 20:49, Manish Kathuria wrote: You just have to configure the Network Card on your linux system by supplying IP Address, Netmask, Gateway and the DNS servers. This can be either done manually by editing the configuration files or using a front end

Re: [ilugd] NAS idea

2006-01-13 Thread ramana
Mithun Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this brewing in my head for quite sometime and was wondering whether anyone was ready to try it out. I currently cant due to lack of resources but if it works you could probably earn some glory/money whatever. You can always build 'much'

Re: [ilugd] NAS idea

2006-01-13 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
--- ramana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, there is nothing like 'lack of resources' and there is nothing like you can not beat world top b-school bean counters in business systems -- if you have that desire. I am hoping you have been encouraging in in your email :). As for

Re: [ilugd] NAS idea

2006-01-13 Thread ramana
Mithun Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- ramana wrote: By the way, there is nothing like 'lack of resources' and there is nothing like you can not beat world top b-school bean counters in business systems -- if you have that desire. I am hoping you have been encouraging in in

[ilugd] [OT] vernacular (Re: Seeking help for IT initiative for vernacular)

2006-01-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2006-01-05 13:03:47 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The word 'vernacular' is a generic, insulting term, historically used by former colonial masters. It literally means 'languague of the slave or servant' and is derogatory. Vernacular could be applied for any non-English language. Just

Re: [ilugd] NAS idea

2006-01-13 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
--- Manish Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to add few more points while designing a NAS solution 1.writing of data on to HDD should be fast enough, at time when you are mounting central storage on multiple server the concurrent NFS operation makes it very difficult and the