Re: [leaf-user] Any experience with eMTA Cable Modems and Bering uClibc?

2007-04-18 Thread George Metz
our solution involves a Cisco router instead. Also, if your co-worker is getting drop-outs on calls, he probably has other issues. I've held an hour-long conversation with no hiccups before while downloading at 28 Mbit/sec the entire time. George Metz Ken Gentle wrote: > Thanks, Charles.

Re: [leaf-user] Cable Modem speeds with Bering-uClibc

2007-02-27 Thread George Metz
Andrew Haninger wrote: > On 2/26/07, George Metz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Any number of things could cause that. My concern is, sometimes >> Motorolas don't handle forced duplex settings well, and sometimes >> half-duplex will make things problematic to

Re: [leaf-user] Ok, the Cable Modem discussion has me concerned...

2007-02-26 Thread George Metz
bably not the hub, or if it is then it's probably just the port itself, so try a different port too. George Metz - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and

Re: [leaf-user] Cable Modem speeds with Bering-uClibc

2007-02-26 Thread George Metz
Andrew Haninger wrote: > I half understand duplex (don't bother explaining it - I'll look it up > for myself) but I don't understand how duplex could be negotiated > improperly? Any number of things could cause that. My concern is, sometimes Motorolas don't handle forced duplex settings well, and

Re: [leaf-user] Fwd: Cable Modem speeds with Bering-uClibc

2007-02-25 Thread George Metz
Andrew Haninger wrote: > I don't think I explained the "different IP" well enough. I get > assigned an from a completely different range IP and also a different > gateway: > > Slow LEAF box: > 71.72.x.x/22 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 71.72.x.x > default via 71.72.96.1 dev eth0 >

Re: [leaf-user] 3Com driver

2006-01-23 Thread George Metz
I can confirm 100% that the 3c59x.o module works with the 3c905C 3Com NIC. Said module and NIC are in use as I type this on eth0 on my Bering box. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric, The modules tarball for the kernel 2.4.31 does not include 3c905c. It includes 3c501, 503, 505, 507, 509, 51

Re: [leaf-user] CRC32.o and Tulip in Bering uClibC

2005-09-16 Thread George Metz
orge Arne Bernin wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 23:59 -0400, George Metz wrote: Hi George! That's odd. I actually used that page, but it didn't supply the crc32.o without being manually told to use it. I doublechecked lsmod and tulip is the only thing relying on it. I suppose you u

Re: [leaf-user] CRC32.o and Tulip in Bering uClibC

2005-09-14 Thread George Metz
That's odd. I actually used that page, but it didn't supply the crc32.o without being manually told to use it. I doublechecked lsmod and tulip is the only thing relying on it. Looks like, checking the modules.dep, that the change occurred between 2.4.20 from release 2.0 and 2.4.26 from 2.2.0

[leaf-user] CRC32.o and Tulip in Bering uClibC

2005-09-14 Thread George Metz
Might I make a suggestion here? There should be some form of documentation, either in the installation doc or on the /etc/modules file, stating that tulip.o for Bering uClibC has dependencies within crc32.o. I spent a profitable couple of hours banging my head on that issue with 2.3 rc1, event

Re: [leaf-user] SF Site down?

2005-09-10 Thread George Metz
Thanks Mike, that would explain it. George Mike Noyes wrote: On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 13:49, George Metz wrote: Getting the following as a text line when I try and load either www.leaf-project.org or leaf.sourceforge.net: Unable to load database indicated by configuration file. No errors

[leaf-user] SF Site down?

2005-09-10 Thread George Metz
Getting the following as a text line when I try and load either www.leaf-project.org or leaf.sourceforge.net: Unable to load database indicated by configuration file. No errors, just that one line. Incidentally, whatever's going on, it's been going on long enough that the 4th unique result fr

Re: [leaf-user] multiple static ip address router/firewall

2005-07-13 Thread George Metz
le video streams going through this router/firewall nearly 24/7. (i.e. Lots of bandwidth, very few connections) Do you think I need the extra cpu of a regular computer or will the wrap be able to handle it? Thanks, Andrew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [leaf-user] multiple static ip address router/firewall

2005-07-13 Thread George Metz
None of the over-the-counter router-in-a-boxes are going to be able to handle multiple static IPs, with the possible exception of a Linksys that's had it's firmware replaced with a Linux-based one from the hardware hacking groups. An entry level Cisco is hideously expensive; I found two on Pri

Re: [leaf-user] 3C905CX Network Card

2005-06-30 Thread George Metz
Your problem is that the 3c905C series cards use the 3c59x.o module, not the 3c90x.o one. I've no idea why the architecture was changed that drastically with only a single letter to mark the difference, but it does, and I used a 905C as a main ethernet card for 3 years on the 3c59x module so yo

[leaf-user] Zoom CableModem Model 5001 Support?

2004-09-22 Thread George Metz
Anyone know if there's an already-compiled module out there for Bering or Bering uClibC for the Zoom Model 5001 PCI cablemodem? There's a reference driver up on their website that's distributed under the GPL; I'm just wondering if anyone's grabbed it. I'm looking to buy a new cablemodem, and no

Re: [leaf-user] CISCO 1600 Router Replacment

2004-08-12 Thread George Metz
Chris Lee wrote: As I don't know how to config CISCO, I use Getif to peek the config via SNMP. For Interface, it show: descr. ip address Ethernet0 10.0.108.254/255.255.255.0 203.198.77.78/255.255.240 Ethernet1 172.23.76.154/255.255.255.252 Tunnel5 192.16

Re: [leaf-user] Re: [leaf-devel] ANN: Bering-uClibc 2.2 beta2

2004-05-11 Thread George Metz
Because not everyone uses Linux on anything but their LEAF box. Heck, I DO use Linux, and when I do an upgrade it's usually with WinImage. K.-P. Kirchdörfer wrote: Am Dienstag, 11. Mai 2004 20:04 schrieb Marko Nurmenniemi: K.-P. Kirchdörfer wrote: Due to new linuxrc "backupdisk" is broken and h

Re: [leaf-user] LEAF article

2004-04-30 Thread George Metz
Couple of things to let you know about: Jim Hubbard wrote: 1. What sort of throughput, for instance, could LEAF-Bering theoretically provide on a Pentium 100 system with edo ram and with 10/100 nics, cables, and switch, assuming that all other systems connected have unlimited speed? Check the arc

Re: [leaf-user] Dachstein as border_router? (public ip addresses etc)

2004-04-26 Thread George Metz
Don't know about shorewall (which you would have to configure to allow VPN traffic to pass through to that specific IP address), but what you basically want it to do is substitute for a traditional router. Effectively, you'd simply have to turn off NAT and let DNS and the public IP addresses do

Re: [leaf-user] Re: BGP

2004-04-24 Thread George Metz
This is not entirely correct. There is, in fact, an RFC1918 equivalent for AS routing numbers, for one. Of course, a private AS should only really be used if you're multihoming to two different gateways on the same provider network. Additionally, ARIN only requires that you have a unique routin

Re: [leaf-user] shorewall policy question (lots of hits from fw to loc)

2004-04-15 Thread George Metz
The first thing I'd be doing here is NOT asking how to allow these packets to pass, but trying to figure out why they're being sent in the first place. If you're using a default Bering install without monkeying with the Bering settings, and you're using DHCP, then your gateway should be 192.16

Re: [leaf-user] Is my NIC the bottleneck?

2004-04-15 Thread George Metz
You shouldn't be, because you were right that there's a bottleneck, you just missed what the bottleneck is. A 768k T-1 or Cablemodem line is going to give you around 90-95Kbytes/sec on a download, whereas your DSL is only turning out around 70Kbytes/sec. The reason for this is pretty straightfo

Re: [leaf-user] trouble accessing firewall

2004-04-08 Thread George Metz
Really wouldn't matter, just yet, that ping isn't enabled. If he has no link light from the LEAF box on his switch/hub, and no light on the networking card, then there's an issue that's lower than Layer 3 (IP), and probably an issue at Layer 1 (Physical). After he figures out the reason he does

Re: [leaf-user] trouble accessing firewall

2004-04-07 Thread George Metz
Step 1: Doublecheck your cable. Try swapping the cable on eth1 for the cable on eth0, and vice versa, and see if the lights follow the cables. If they do (eth0 dark, eth1 lit) then replace the bad cable. That's the only thing that leaps to mind, probably because I had the same problem with my o

Re: [leaf-user] ISP and DNS issues

2004-03-31 Thread George Metz
Honestly, you should probably NOT be using the root servers. They're in general designed to provide updates to other DNS servers on the net, and in the case of on-network resources that may not have a publically routable IP address, going to the root server is going to give you an IP address th

Re: [leaf-user] Linux magazine LEAF versus CISCO article?

2004-03-27 Thread George Metz
es the way LEAF handles stuff compared to LRP. George Metz wrote: Looks like Issue 100 (August 2002) of Linux Journal. I'm having a bit of difficulty actually pulling it up on their website, however. That might be just a slow load... ah, there we go. Just give it a little bit and it will com

Re: [leaf-user] Linux magazine LEAF versus CISCO article?

2004-03-27 Thread George Metz
Looks like Issue 100 (August 2002) of Linux Journal. I'm having a bit of difficulty actually pulling it up on their website, however. That might be just a slow load... ah, there we go. Just give it a little bit and it will come up just fine. And frankly, having worked with both LEAF (specifical

Re: [leaf-user] Playing games through Dachstein

2004-03-19 Thread George Metz
If this is a roleplaying game like Everquest, Asheron's Call, Dark Age of Camelot, Horizons, etc. then most likely no configuration will need to be done. Most of the massively-multiplayer RPGs out there work on a single outbound UDP connection, with multiple inbound UDP connections in response.

Re: [leaf-user] Bering-uClibc Weblet

2004-03-13 Thread George Metz
It depends on which of the three traffic light graphics is red. If it's the Firewall light, this means there is probably a bunch of traffic that your firewall has rejected. If you want to see the traffic that is being dropped, click on the "shorewall.log" link on the page that tells you there's

Re: [leaf-user] ICSA certification

2004-03-02 Thread George Metz
If I recall correctly, this was looked at in the past and the cost was prohibitive, to say the least. A quick poke around on Google isn't turning up an amount, but I remember it being significantly more than was worth the effort. Not to mention that ICSA Certification is designed for commercial

Re: [leaf-user] CABLE + WIFI + IPSEC + WINDOWS + BERING = ???

2003-12-19 Thread George Metz
7;re sending to the WAP in the first place. George Mike Noyes wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 10:16, Mike Noyes wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 09:24, George Metz wrote: Yeah, I know. I was more replying to someone else saying that WEP was enough. It's clearly not. George, Is NoCatAuth/NoCat

Re: [leaf-user] CABLE + WIFI + IPSEC + WINDOWS + BERING = ???

2003-12-19 Thread George Metz
tion is so flawed, and no infrastructure to change keys when they have been compromised. That's why IPSEC is so important. Sean On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 12:19, George Metz wrote: The problem with this approach is that WEP, the security protocol that most Wireless points use, is fairly weak and

Re: [leaf-user] CABLE + WIFI + IPSEC + WINDOWS + BERING = ???

2003-12-18 Thread George Metz
The problem with this approach is that WEP, the security protocol that most Wireless points use, is fairly weak and relatively easily broken. If you want to ensure that only authorized users can get in, you kind of want to use both WEP (Wired Equivalent Protocol, even though it's not... :) ) an

Re: [leaf-user] firewall or just router

2003-12-14 Thread George Metz
Couple of things on this. Interspersed where relevant. Brian Kolaci wrote: Hi, I'm looking to setup a box mainly as a routing decision maker. I'll have 2 DSL lines, a primary and backup (to 2 different ISP's). I'd like traffic to go out the primary (faster and static IP's) when its up and have i

Re: [leaf-user] DSL troubleshooting.....

2003-11-25 Thread George Metz
This cannot be a DNS issue. It's like saying, every time a plane flies over my house, the subway train that runs underneath it gets derailed. DSL modem sync is a Layer 2 function, whereas DNS is a Layer 7(?) function. (I'm talking about the OSI Layer Model. Layer 2 is Data Link, Layer 7 is appl

Re: [leaf-user] Dachstein, 2 internal nets routing

2003-09-27 Thread George Metz
Negative, 192.168.0/23 will route 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24 but ignore 192.168.2.0/24. You'd need to do a /22 to do aggregate routing with the specified /24s, and at that you'd have two /24s floating in limbo. Victor McAllister wrote: Dachstein will not route between interfaces unless y

Re: [leaf-user] SpeedStream R1483 + bridging

2003-09-13 Thread George Metz
RFC1483 is simply a means - that is as far as you're concerned, completely and totally transparent - for encapsulating IP traffic for transport over an ATM circuit. The DSL Modem handles all of this, and it has absolutely zilch to do with your IP address or even with anything that actually touc

Re: [leaf-user] WAP

2003-09-07 Thread George Metz
Just as a note, my primary reasoning for thinking to put NAT behind NAT - and it wouldn't be an issue, BTW, since many ISP/MSP/MSSP companies, including the one I work for, provide RFC1918 address space for the WAN side and run NAT behind it on the LAN side, because it's all going out a managed

Re: [leaf-user] D-Link 520+ Bering 1.2 problem with acx100_pci.o

2003-09-06 Thread George Metz
If you didn't compile the module with the kernel that Bering uses running, or with links pointing to the Bering kernel's config and source directories, you will not be able to successfully get the module to work. Sebastian A. Aresca wrote: Hi i buy a D-Link 520+ and I am trying to make it work

Re: [leaf-user] WAP

2003-09-06 Thread George Metz
ugh, in routing mode, you can't play Asheron's Call - one of Microsoft's games - from more than one client at a time. I'm assuming this would be an issue as a router for any online games that use multiple UDP connections. Bering 1.2 and Shorewall handle it out of the box, a

Re: [leaf-user] OT - How many users will a T1 line service?

2003-08-31 Thread George Metz
From experience on the far end of the line, a T-1 can hold anywhere from 2 to 1000 users simultaneously. If this setup is mostly web browsing for research purposes - for example, a school library - where they either won't want to or won't be able to run their own programs on it, then a frac T-1

Re: [leaf-user] Routing 192.168.231.255

2003-08-08 Thread George Metz
- Original Message - From: Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 10:13 am Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Routing 192.168.231.255 > As an aside, from time to time people post questions here about > whether > blocked packets from/to ports 137/139 are attacks. I usuall

Re: [leaf-user] DHCP client

2003-08-04 Thread George Metz
Um. Okay, color me stupid. For some reason, I mixed up pump and DHCPd for some reason. DHCPd is not loaded in there by default, but is on the disk. Sorry for confusing you... George Metz Luis.F.Correia wrote: If you are using Bering, then type 'ip addr'. -Original Message

Re: [leaf-user] DHCP client

2003-08-02 Thread George Metz
To clarify, however... Bering is indeed setup to use pump.lrp by default, and it works extremely well. HOWEVER, since Bering is set up so that you can use DHCP, PPP, or PPPoE with the default image, pump.lrp is NOT loaded by default in syslinux.cfg. So, if you open up syslinux.cfg and add pump

Re: RE: [leaf-user] VPN security issue? Slightly O/T...

2003-07-29 Thread George Metz
or you. That's the real threat. Granted, maybe not the entire net, but a far larger portion than you'd like to think is healthy. George Metz - Original Message - From: Eric B Kiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 7:42 pm Subject: RE: [leaf-user] VPN security

Re: [leaf-user] VPN security issue? Slightly O/T...

2003-07-29 Thread George Metz
anicky. It's certainly a strong likelihood, and AFAIK there's relatively little chance of the hole you're referring to from happening. (IOW, browsing on your public connection while connected via VPN.) George Metz --- This SF.Net em

Re: [leaf-user] followup to interfaces / shorewall assist

2003-07-27 Thread George Metz
Steve Wright wrote: I know Linux and WISP-DIST, but I am not familiar with Bering, per se. Try these things ; boot Bering, and see if pump is running on eth0. It should not be. Start from scratch, with a perfectly clean image and have another go. Write a little script that that restarts the n

Re: [leaf-user] interfaces / shorewall assist please

2003-07-26 Thread George Metz
use their own chipsets have modules that start with "3c" as a designator. George Metz --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Downloa

Re: [leaf-user] Now On-Line but big trouble...

2003-07-24 Thread George Metz
As a start, I'd like to say, please take the politics off this list. Matt did. You can too. Furthermore: I was working for the french gov and I have very good access to some non-public informations... The European had scanned by satelit the Near-East (from Syria to Iran) for Radioactivity...

Re: [leaf-user] Now On-Line but big trouble...

2003-07-20 Thread George Metz
Michelle Konzack wrote: No I have not... because I curently no running SLINK-System (HD crash) and can not build new LRP 2.9.4 Packages... You could try the windows port of it, WinDump. It runs on Win9x/ME/NT/2K/XP, and only requires a (freely available) single file in addition to itself.

Re: [leaf-user] Compression Format for initrd.lrp?

2003-07-20 Thread George Metz
Jeff Newmiller wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, George Metz wrote: I'd like to do it on CD-ROM. And the easiest way for me to make the infamously-missing initrd.cdrom file myself would be to extract initrd on my workstation, make the changes, and close it back up. Unfortunately, things se

[leaf-user] Compression Format for initrd.lrp?

2003-07-20 Thread George Metz
image on floppy and borrowing a computer? Thanks! George Metz --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines

RE: [Leaf-user] LRP behind Cisco Router, FTP?, DMZ?

2002-03-16 Thread George Metz
o > do with computers and I learn by reading only. Believe me, after having worked support for high-speed internet for two years, the very fact that you know there's stuff you don't know puts you ahead of the curve. =) -- George Metz Commercial Routing Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

Re: [Leaf-user] Looking for alternate 3c59x module for 3c905c

2002-03-16 Thread George Metz
t had a conniption fit when I realized that the new card I had with my brand new system didn't want to run under Linux. I thought that the 3c59x module was backported from 2.4.x to 2.2.19 and later, but I can't say for sure. -- George Metz Commercial Routing Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] &q

RE: [Leaf-user] routing more than 1 hop

2002-03-12 Thread George Metz
omehow something got altered by accident routing wise, but it SHOULD show up in the routing tables (something like a 10.10.13.0 255.255.0.0 would REALLY confuse the routing...) in at least some form. This is an interesting problem (for me, at any rate, probably very frustrating to you) so I'll bang my

Re: [Leaf-user] OSPF on LEAF?

2002-03-12 Thread George Metz
OSPF. I personally would rather use default route/weighted route methods rather than OSPF unless there's a pressing need to do so - such as the two routers mentioned happen to be in totally different locations topography-wise. Even then, it could be sticky. Not much help at all, I know, but

Re: [Leaf-user] openssh security hole

2002-03-07 Thread George Metz
thread&tid=128 Note that at present, this is a local root hole, with a possibility for it to be a remote root exploit - think they're still digging on that. -- George Metz Commercial Routing Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We know what deterrence was with 'mutually assured destructio

RE: [Leaf-user] Problem with 3c59x.o on Dachstein disk

2002-03-07 Thread George Metz
e isn't the right one for the kernel you've got running, actually. -- George Metz Commercial Routing Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We know what deterrence was with 'mutually assured destruction' during the Cold War. But what is deterrence in information warfare?" -- Br

Re: [Leaf-user] Martians: please, help track this one down ???

2001-10-30 Thread George Metz
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Simon Bolduc wrote: > Doing a search on http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml for just > the first 3 hex parts of the MAC indicated that it belongs to HP - Ah! There's the issue. Yeah, put it in with spaces. Never mind, I'm stupid today. =)

Re: [Leaf-user] Martians: please, help track this one down ???

2001-10-30 Thread George Metz
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Yes -- it turns out that mac's beginning with: > > 00 30 c1 d8 > > at least in this case (3 specimens), are HP switches. Cool, thanks. -- George Metz Commercial Routing Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We know

Re: [Leaf-user] Martians: please, help track this one down ???

2001-10-30 Thread George Metz
acturer on that NIC card? I did a search for the first three at standards.ieee.org and it came up blank, so I'd be interested in knowing if you've got the info available and easily to hand. -- George Metz Commercial Routing Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We know what deterrence was w

Re: [Leaf-user] wanted: lrp with 2.43 and patched iptables

2001-05-04 Thread George Metz
disk could do the same. > > We're working on it. :) Aye, we are. Would be nice if we had a free floppy-bootable device that worked on hardware totalling about $50 that could do the same job as a Cisco Pix firewall costing a hundred times as much. =) -- George Metz Commercial Routing Engi

Re: [Leaf-user] How to adjust the fw rules to access my ADSL modem

2001-04-20 Thread George Metz
it should be just a matter of adding an ACCEPT rule from 10.0.0.138/32 at the beginning of the IPChains filter list. That should take care of the issue, yet still leave the default Martian rules in place. As for syntax, that I'm not too sure on since I'm weak on IPChains. -- George Metz