[Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD, ipsec rsasigkey ???

2001-12-29 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Why does this *never* complete? ipsec rsasigkey --verbose 2048 mykey Is there some special source for randomness other than /dev/random? I've tried this with various lengths, including the shortest allowable: 16 It appears to hang on two (2) different machines: 486/66

Re: [Leaf-user] portfw to *multiple* hosts ???

2001-12-28 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: ??? Please explain a bit more about exactly what you're trying to accomplish... Large medical images -- some approaching gigabyte sizes. The internal network connects multiple facilities. The images may need to be shared across multiple facilities.

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD: port forward w/dmz proxy_arp ???

2001-12-27 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Doh! Of course -- again, not thinking -- addled by all of this holiday spirit ; Thank you. Charles Steinkuehler wrote: My normal attempts resulted in failed connections. Since this box uses wanpipe for EXTERN_IP, I couldn't troubleshoot with the normal tools (e.g., iptraf, tcpdump,

[Leaf-user] portfw to *multiple* hosts ???

2001-12-27 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Quite simply, what is the simplest, secure way to forward to two (2) hosts? There are probably better ways to accomplish the end goal; but, we have an application whereby we may need to push very large files from the internet to two (or, more) locations behind a Dachstein firewall. What do you

Re: [Leaf-user] portfw to *multiple* hosts ???

2001-12-27 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Quite simply, what is the simplest, secure way to forward to two (2) hosts? There are probably better ways to accomplish the end goal; but, we have an application whereby we may need to push very large files from the internet to two (or, more)

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD: port forward w/dmz proxy_arp ???

2001-12-24 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles == My bad ; Charles Steinkuehler wrote: No ideas? Sorry...been busy w/XMas stuff. Michael D. Schleif wrote: I'm not sure where the problem is. Here are the facts: external interface wan1 a.b.C.157 a.b.C.156/30 -- public

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD V1.0.2 Available

2001-12-23 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Tony wrote: I have a question Charles, how/where is the /dev/cdrom symlink created? I took a stock version of your 1.0.2 image and modified it to fit my needs (i.e. set a root passwd, included some other packages like psentry, setup network config for my net, stuff like that). I then did

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD: port forward w/dmz proxy_arp ???

2001-12-21 Thread Michael D. Schleif
No ideas? Michael D. Schleif wrote: I'm not sure where the problem is. Here are the facts: external interface wan1 a.b.C.157 a.b.C.156/30 -- public proxy_arp=yes internal interface eth0 192.168.1.254 192.168.1.0/24

Re: [Leaf-user] Is this newbie even in the right ballpark with LEAF?

2001-12-20 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Dan Schwartz wrote: Over the past few days I've received some very helpful guidance about assembling LEAF VPN appliances to handle multi-megabit 3DES encryption throughput rates; and I really appreciate the guidance given this Mac NT geek ( linux newbie). However, since

Re: [Leaf-user] Update: ATT Transition Woes

2001-12-19 Thread Michael D. Schleif
gc wrote: It looks like Charles and Dan nailed it. My ISP seemed to be keying off of the MAC address. When I spoofed the router's MAC address (as per Charles' instructions below), it was able to get a good IP address. It still bugs me, though, that the ISP WAS giving me an IP address,

Re: [Leaf-user] Starting from scratch to build a high capacity VPN tunnel appliance, part 2

2001-12-19 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Dan Schwartz wrote: Dear Charles: Thank you *very* much for the offer. Right now they are in the process of getting the T-1 line provisioned (still 30+ days away, courtesy of Verizon); and as they get closer to deciding on whether they want a VPN channel between their

Re: [Leaf-user] Timelag in Dachstein 1.0.2

2001-12-17 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Maxim Heijndijk wrote: I run Dachstein 1.0.2 and the time is one hour earlier than it should be. How can I change this ? I run 'rdate -p -s some.time.server hwclock --systohc', but still one hour earlier. This link contains good timezone information, although much of it no longer applies

Re: [Leaf-user] Timelag in Dachstein 1.0.2

2001-12-17 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Sorry, the link: http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net/dox/ntp.txt Michael D. Schleif wrote: Maxim Heijndijk wrote: I run Dachstein 1.0.2 and the time is one hour earlier than it should be. How can I change this ? I run 'rdate -p -s some.time.server hwclock --systohc', but still one

[Leaf-user] RESOLVED: LEAF development box, 2.2.19 kernel cannot use old ide hdd???

2001-12-16 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Michael D. Schleif wrote: I am building a development box with slink. The system is up and functioning; but, now, I need to implement a 2.2.19 kernel. It builds successfully; but, has problems at bootup. The system: Pentium 150 64MB RAM /dev/sda1 - swap

[Leaf-user] LEAF development box, 2.2.19 kernel cannot use old ide hdd ???

2001-12-14 Thread Michael D. Schleif
I am building a development box with slink. The system is up and functioning; but, now, I need to implement a 2.2.19 kernel. It builds successfully; but, has problems at bootup. The system: Pentium 150 64MB RAM /dev/sda1 - swap /dev/sda2 - / /dev/scd0

Re: [Leaf-user] LEAF development box, 2.2.19 kernel cannotuse old ide hdd ???

2001-12-14 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Ray Olszewski wrote: At 05:37 PM 12/14/01 -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote: ... Interestingly, under the kernel that is functioning properly, there is *NO* /proc/ide !?!? ... So, how is this handling the IDE hdd? Is it using scsi to interpret ide? It would be easier to answer

[Leaf-user] Silent_Deny by destination address ???

2001-12-09 Thread Michael D. Schleif
I want to silently deny all traffic with destination 255.255.255.255, regardless of source. This is in response to: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 12.242.20.34:67 255.255.255.255:68 Is there any protocol or destination port for which these should *not* be denied? Yes, I can write the

Re: [Leaf-user] What is This

2001-12-09 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Matthew Schalit wrote: [ snip ] All these are blocked by rule #42. What is that rule? These log messages are from strange hosts. 80% of them don't resolve to a real hostname. All the packets you listed are tcp packets with no SYN flag, meaning they are theoretically responses to some

Re: [Leaf-user] Silent_Deny by destination address ???

2001-12-09 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Ray Olszewski wrote: At 01:03 PM 12/9/01 -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote: I want to silently deny all traffic with destination 255.255.255.255, regardless of source. This is in response to: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 12.242.20.34:67 255.255.255.255:68 Is there any protocol

Re: [Leaf-user] logging

2001-12-09 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Brian Camp wrote: How can I keep denied packes with the 255.255.255.255 destination address from being logged? If you are using Dachstein, or some other distribution that understands this supplemental file, this entry in /etc/ipchains.input appears to do as you need: $IPCH -I input -j DENY

Re: [Leaf-user] EIGRP (88) protocol ???

2001-12-07 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Regarding silent deny's...you can block the whole 224.0.0.0/4 range (RFC-1112 Class-D multicast) without worry. That catches IGMP, IGRP, EIGRP, and probably others. As you'd expect, this is in the same reduce my log noise section of

Re: [Leaf-user] very large /var/log/wtmp

2001-12-07 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Richard Burt wrote: OK, I took a look at the man pages for last. With no arguments, it should tell me all logins from the wtmp file. Here is what I get: # last USER TTY PID TIMEON FROM reboot ~ 0 48452.2.19 Figuring it has to do with logins, I also

Re: [Leaf-user] Re:

2001-12-06 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Am I the doofus or what? My only excuse is, when my lrpkg.cfg looks like this, it is easy to miss one:

[Leaf-user] dnscache w2k servers ???

2001-12-05 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Normally, we've been setting up all systems with dhcp and assigning dns servers thusly: 192.168.1.254 # firewall, w/dnscache x.y.z.2 # ISP assigned dns server(s) x.y.z.3 ... I suppose, our theory is, if dnscache gets trashed, at least dns

Re: [Leaf-user] Re:

2001-12-05 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Did you see my post about net-snmp? This package requires libdb.so.2 which is not part of the libraries on the Dachstein CD. I found the file on the Debian web site in the libdb++ package. Did you include it in either of your net-snmp packages? If not, what

Re: [Leaf-user] Re:

2001-12-05 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Michael D. Schleif wrote: Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Did you see my post about net-snmp? This package requires libdb.so.2 which is not part of the libraries on the Dachstein CD. I found the file on the Debian web site in the libdb++ package. Did you include it in either of your

Re: [Leaf-user] DMZ considerations ???

2001-12-03 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Just port-forward the service from the public IP of the firewall (the near end IP of the T1 link). The reverse masqerade rules will do the right thing, and everything should work fine. There are also hooks in place to do this already, so no custom

[Leaf-user] Delays in updating wanpipe.lrp

2001-12-02 Thread Michael D. Schleif
We are very sorry for any delays we may incur; but, we are among the unlucky @Home victims. Notwithstanding ATT's six weeks of assurances that we would experience no interruptions, apparently the dear judge judged the case at least one week quicker than ATT anticipated and transition us to the

[Leaf-user] EIGRP (88) protocol ???

2001-11-30 Thread Michael D. Schleif
We just connected Dachstein-CD to a T-1 via Sangoma panpipe pci card. We are receiving a plethora of these: kernel: Packet log: input DENY wan PROTO=88 x.y.z.158:65535 224.0.0.10:65535 L=60 S=0xC0 I=0 F=0x T=2 (#39) Yes, we know that protocol 88 is EIGRP. No, Ethernet

[Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD Sangoma wanpipe

2001-11-30 Thread Michael D. Schleif
There have been several people on this List who have mentioned problems with Sangoma's wanpipe since upgrading to Dachstein. We have worked closely with Sangoma and have a solution, which we will be releasing early next week -- after a long weekend of testing. Suffice it to say, existing

[Leaf-user] DMZ considerations ???

2001-11-30 Thread Michael D. Schleif
We have a couple sites connected by T-1 to the Internet and the ISP's have allocated /26 and /28 public networks for our customers' domains. As you know, typically T-1's use a public /30 network to connect the external wan port to its peer address on the ISP side. This network belongs to the

Re: [Leaf-user] EIGRP (88) protocol ???

2001-11-30 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles, thank you! Charles Steinkuehler wrote: kernel: Packet log: input DENY wan PROTO=88 x.y.z.158:65535 224.0.0.10:65535 L=60 S=0xC0 I=0 F=0x T=2 (#39) Yes, we know that protocol 88 is EIGRP. No, Ethernet http://www.echogent.com/cgi-bin/fwlog.pl does not recognize this.

Re: [Leaf-user] DMZ considerations ???

2001-11-30 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: We have a couple sites connected by T-1 to the Internet and the ISP's have allocated /26 and /28 public networks for our customers' domains. As you know, typically T-1's use a public /30 network to connect the external wan port to its peer address on the

Re: [Leaf-user] DMZ considerations ???

2001-11-30 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: So, in Dachstein, we do something like this: wan1_IP_EXTRA_ADDRS=x.y.z.64/26 This is not what you really want to do...see below Yes, but what about the NAT'ed internal network? Does it need a public ip address on the customer's domain? Or,

Re: [Leaf-user] EIGRP (88) protocol ???

2001-11-30 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Scott C. Best wrote: Heya. Thanks for the packet log, am updating fwlog.pl to include an awareness of protocol 88. It knew about regular IGRP (IP protocol 9) but not this one. :) Regarding silent deny's...you can block the whole 224.0.0.0/4 range (RFC-1112 Class-D

[Leaf-user] IPTraf vs. wan ???

2001-11-30 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Is there away to get IPTraf to show ip traffic over a wan link? Is this something related to *not* using an interface of the form ??? ethnum -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely

Re: [Leaf-user] wanpipe

2001-11-25 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Any luck on this? I've spent much of the last two days trying to get this to work -- without success ; As Eddie said, everything appears to work, except there is *no* interface . . . Eddie Wilson wrote: Has anyone configured Dachstein-CD to use a wanpipe card? I started with LRP 2.9.8

Re: [Leaf-user] wanpipe

2001-11-25 Thread Michael D. Schleif
permutation I use, I will get three of these: Cannot find device wanpipe1 Or, this: Error: an inet prefix is expected rather than dev. Any ideas? Michael D. Schleif wrote: Any luck on this? I've spent much of the last two days trying to get this to work -- without

[Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD: bash help built-in ???

2001-11-18 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Bash includes a built-in ``help'' command, which supercedes any PATH statement. Therefore, the LEAF/LRP /etc/profile admonishment *cannot* work: ``Type in help if you are really lost'' Of course, we could change this to; but, who will remember? ``Type in /usr/bin/help if you

Re: [Leaf-user] Announcing Dachstein CD RC5

2001-11-18 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: [ snip ] Rebuilt log.tgz (part of ramlog.lrp) using busybox tar in hopes of eliminating broken pipe messages appering on some systems. Did I tell you that that fixes the problem? Of course, in my modified instance, it took me quite sometime to figure out how

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD: dnscache vs. tinydns ???

2001-11-17 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Jacques Nilo wrote: OK, this is really not about Dachstein, although that is the distribution that we're using ; What are the primary differences between dnscache and tinydns ??? http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/dnscache1.html

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD: dnscache vs. tinydns ???

2001-11-17 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Richard Doyle wrote: snip Background material here: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/dnscache6.html Aha! That's exactly why I didn't want to trust my first reaction ; I misread those links and thought that it was an either-or scenario. Now, I understand where I

Re: [Leaf-user] Announcing official release of Dachstein-CD

2001-11-17 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: As always, this is truly superb stuff! Bravo, Charles !!! Couple questions, even though these items appeared in RC5: [1] What is the purpose of the ``leaf'' user? It was in Jacques' example passwd file...I added it mainly as a 'stub' entry for

Re: [Leaf-user] Announcing official release of Dachstein-CD

2001-11-17 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Interestingly enough, logged in as leaf, I *cannot* su - root su: Incorrect password What gives? Trust me, I know the root password ; But, I cannot eliminate root login if I cannot su to root . . . Hmm...does su have the setuid bit set? It has to

[Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD: dnscache vs. tinydns ???

2001-11-16 Thread Michael D. Schleif
OK, this is really not about Dachstein, although that is the distribution that we're using ; What are the primary differences between dnscache and tinydns ??? What are the criteria we ought to consider, in deciding which to deploy? What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource

Re: [Leaf-user] Announcing official release of Dachstein-CD

2001-11-16 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Michael D. Schleif wrote: Charles Steinkuehler wrote: The official release (v1.0.1) of Dachstein-CD is now available for download from the usual places: slow: http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/files/diskimages/dachstein-CD/ fast: http://lrp1.steinkuehler.net/files/diskimages/dachstein

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein CD Install Documentation

2001-11-14 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Does anyone know of a way to create the CD from the CD-Contents under Windoze? I suspect that will be the biggest challenge for a non-Linux person if they want to add/remove packages from the CD. I've used Nero to create CD's on windows boxes. The version

[Leaf-user] Cyclades in trouble ???

2001-11-14 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Is Cyclades in trouble? Sangoma says that they're having serious business problems. We cannnot seem to get Cyclades on the telephone. What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely

Re: [Leaf-user] host ignores redirect ???

2001-11-11 Thread Michael D. Schleif
These continue to come -- every four (4) hours. No ideas ??? Michael D. Schleif wrote: I've found references to this issue in the archives; but, have not found adequate explanation nor resolution. host 0a02a8c0/if8 ignores redirects for 0a02a8c0 to 0a02a8c0. Yes, the ip

[Leaf-user] portfw from unused public ip ???

2001-11-10 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Since converting an open /26 network to Dachstein-CD and NAT, we have several unused ip addresses ; For example: x.y.z.66# Dachstein x.y.z.100 # unused 192.168.2.10# internal host How can we, for example, portfw tcp port 80 from an unused public

[Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD: $dev_IP_EXTRA_ADDRS ???

2001-11-10 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Will this scheme work on *all* interfaces? $dev_IP_EXTRA_ADDRS I'm not sure what is going on here and don't want to dive in before I understand the implications . . . How does this work? What are the ramifications? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix

[Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD rc4

2001-11-09 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles, et al. How did I miss your announcement for RC4 ??? Does everybody else know that RC4 was released on 7Nov ??? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD rc4 available

2001-11-09 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: How did I miss your announcement for RC4 ??? Does everybody else know that RC4 was released on 7Nov ??? Um...because I think I forgot to make one. clears throat...begins fanfare Announcing the availability of Dachstein-CD release candidate 4 (rc4)

Re: [Leaf-user] Weblet suggestion

2001-11-03 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Anyone know of an extended-precision shell-script math library before I go off and write one? After years and years of Perl programming, I've recently returned to my roots: awk, sed and shell. I often use sed in shell scripting, because it gives me

Re: [Leaf-user] New packages available

2001-11-02 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Also available is a new weblet package. This includes numberous updates from the previous Dachstein weblet. You can now access the weblet logs via weblet, a bug with the text to html conversion has been fixed, so and now show up properly in the log listings,

Re: [Leaf-user] New packages available

2001-11-02 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Why do you need both of these? /var/sh-www/cgi-bin/viewlogs /var/sh-www/cgi-bin/viewlogs-www - viewlogs Take a look at the code... The script includes code to prevent 'directory walking' attacks, so something like:

Re: [Leaf-user] Weblet suggestion

2001-11-02 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: With weblet, I would find a feature that showed hourly use of bandwidth very useful. Maybe others would too, those on pay-per-meg deals? It could be grabbed from the ipchains accounting figures. I tried to set up a shell script to do it but couldn't get

Re: [Leaf-user] Simple scripting question

2001-11-01 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: You can generally replace 'wc -l' with sed -n '$=', although you won't get a zero output if there are no lines. I know about this construct, using two (2) sed's: sed -n = | sed -n '$p' On Dachstein-CD: sed -n '$=' returns: sed: -e

Re: [Leaf-user] Simple scripting question

2001-11-01 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Oo, talk about my bad };Þ Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Hmm...works for me: krypton.private.network: -root- # sed -n '$=' /etc/network.conf 767 krypton.private.network: -root- # The sed man page from debian lists = as a Zero- or One- address command, and $

[Leaf-user] sed: pass variable in ???

2001-11-01 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Speaking of sed scripts ; How can I pass a shell variable into a sed script pattern space? I've seen two (2) means documented elsewhere; but, I cannot get them to work in Dachstein-CD: sed -n '/'$var'/p' file sed -n '/$(var)/p' file Yes, I've found that I can do it this way;

Re: [Leaf-user] sed: pass variable in ???

2001-11-01 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Jeff Newmiller wrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Michael D. Schleif wrote: Speaking of sed scripts ; How can I pass a shell variable into a sed script pattern space? I've seen two (2) means documented elsewhere; but, I cannot get them to work in Dachstein-CD: sed -n '/'$var

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD-rc3 available: bash.lrp error

2001-11-01 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I haven't tried bash.lrp since pre-release. There used to be two (2) bash-related problems; now, I find one (1): Mounting local filesystems... ramdisk.pkg: Uncompressing archives - log.tgz/etc/rcS.d/S36ramdisk.pkg: line 33:

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

2001-10-30 Thread Michael D. Schleif
George Metz wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Michael D. Schleif wrote: now for the header ll header: ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 30 c1 d8 b6 80 08 06 Found it! Eradicated it! Thank you, all for quick response . . . Out of curiosity, what's the manufacturer on that NIC

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD-rc3: mail anomolies

2001-10-29 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Blanton Lewis wrote: This is the way that the memo headers are created (headers, like subject, that are actually part of the mail body and not the envelope), so as far as the mail client is concerned, you're giving more headers for the email. You need the blank line to tell the mail client

Re: [Leaf-user] Help with getting weblet logs into weblet

2001-10-29 Thread Michael D. Schleif
John Desmond wrote: --- Michael D. Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Desmond wrote: --- Michael D. Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] I believe that (additional) ramdisks are created *after* root.lrp is unrolled; but, *before* anything goes into /var/log or /tmp

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD-rc3: mail anomolies

2001-10-29 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: [ snip ] [1] If the first line of the mail body begins with at least one (1) non-whitespace, non-colon (:) character and is followed by a colon (:) and anything else, then *NO* body will be received with the Email !?!? For example: host:

[Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD weblet.lrp: issues

2001-10-29 Thread Michael D. Schleif
In a previous thread, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: P.S. Nifty solution to the weblet logs issue coming as soon as I come up with one and can test it. I'll probably just fix the viewlogs cgi script, which is intentionally paranoid about which files it allows to be accessed (weblet logs

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

2001-10-29 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Yes, I know what martians are. Yes, I know how they can occur. No, I do not know how to locate and eradicate this one ; martian source 3edb5d3f for 03db5d3f, dev eth1 ll header: ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 30 c1 d8 b6 80 08 06 3edb5d3f == 63.93.219.62 03db5d3f ==

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

2001-10-29 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Simon Bolduc wrote: [ snip ] now for the header ll header: ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 30 c1 d8 b6 80 08 06 ff ff ff ff ff ff = destination MAC address - this equates to a binary of or simply a broadcast to anything on the LAN

Re: [Leaf-user] Help with getting weblet logs into weblet

2001-10-28 Thread Michael D. Schleif
John Desmond wrote: --- Michael D. Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Desmond wrote: [ snip ] First, un-tar weblet.lrp into a temporary directory. cd temp/var rm -fr sh-log ln -s /var/log sh-log At this point, rebuild weblet.lrp from this tree

[Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD: directoy file permissions ???

2001-10-27 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Need we be concerned about directory file permissions? Notice, I ask this in general, regarding *all* LEAF/LRP distributions; but, because I am deeply into Dachstein-CD, my issues directly affect this distribution. For instance, should /var/log be 640, root:adm? Or, at least 750 -- so

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD-rc3: mail anomolies

2001-10-26 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Michael D. Schleif wrote: [ snip ] [3] /var/log/mail.log exists; but, I've not yet seen anything write to it. In order to facilitate debugging Email issues, as well as to keep track of outgoing Email attempts, I suggest adding the following subroutine to /lib/POSIXness

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD-rc3 available: bash.lrp error

2001-10-26 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I haven't tried bash.lrp since pre-release. There used to be two (2) bash-related problems; now, I find one (1): Mounting local filesystems... ramdisk.pkg: Uncompressing archives - log.tgz/etc/rcS.d/S36ramdisk.pkg: line 33: 1001 Broken

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD-rc2 available

2001-10-24 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Robert Williams wrote: My Dachstien CD rc1 boots from the floppy. Can I update to the new kernal by copying the the new one to the floppy? If so what file(s) do I need to copy over. Thanks, Robert You need two (2) new files on your boot floppy: linux root.lrp There are

[Leaf-user] Remote access VPN -- from anywhere ???

2001-10-24 Thread Michael D. Schleif
A client of ours wants to take the plunge and VPN their way around their corporate intranetwork from any old place on earth. OK, so they want remote access VPN and their poor DSL is going to really show its limited bandwidth ; Is IPSEC and FreeS/WAN the way to go? Can LRP-CD (their current

Re: [Leaf-user] New Kernels available

2001-10-22 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I have new kernels available, which include patches for a couple recent kernel bugs: [ snip ] I notice that your site http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/files/diskimages/dachstein-CD/CD-Contents/ indicates file change dates more recent than your original issue of

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD vs. mailonerr ???

2001-10-18 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Is there a reason that your utility: mailonerr will not work on Dachstein-CD? I haven't tested it yet...I do recall having to change a couple of things when I migrated the script to a system running bash instead of ash... I'll try to test it here soon.

Re: [Leaf-user] New Dachstein-CD pre-release version avaialble

2001-10-18 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: As you stated in the first release announcement: ``But if you're grabbing the CD image, you'll probably have better luck with the faster mirrors:'' http://lrp1.steinkuehler.net/files/diskimages/dachstein-CD/

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD: large floppies take *FOREVER* to boot ???

2001-10-18 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: fd0h1440 floppies boot as expected. Unfortunately, I'm working on a system that cannot boot from CD-ROM ; You could boot from a 1440 floppy and run from CD-Rom...I do that a lot when I'm testing (easier/faster to edit the floppy than burn a new CD!). Yes,

[Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD: localtime vs. UTC ???

2001-10-18 Thread Michael D. Schleif
As you know, I've been using LRP-CD for quite sometime. Yes, I know that I had to resolve this issue with LRP-CD; but, for life of me, I cannot remember how ; System time is set to my localtime (CST6CDT). Using /etc/localtime that comes with Dachstein, date command returns correct hms; but,

Re: [Leaf-user] New Dachstein-CD pre-release version avaialble

2001-10-18 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I've just put a new version of the Dachstein pre-release CD image online: http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/files/diskimages/dachstein-CD/ As you stated in the first release announcement: ``But if you're grabbing the CD image, you'll probably have better luck with the

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD: localtime vs. UTC ???

2001-10-18 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: As you know, I've been using LRP-CD for quite sometime. Yes, I know that I had to resolve this issue with LRP-CD; but, for life of me, I cannot remember how ; System time is set to my localtime (CST6CDT). Using /etc/localtime that comes with

[Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD vs. mailonerr ???

2001-10-17 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles == Is there a reason that your utility: mailonerr will not work on Dachstein-CD? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the

Re: [Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD vs. mailonerr ???

2001-10-17 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Brad Fritz wrote: On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:55:58 CDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles == Is there a reason that your utility: mailonerr will not work on Dachstein-CD? Not to answer for Charles, but in case he's busy with other stuff, it's possible that you're running into the

[Leaf-user] bash.lrp broken pipes ???

2001-10-17 Thread Michael D. Schleif
I like the idea behind a bash.lrp, especially since we're running Dachstein-CD and plenty of RAM. However, bash.lrp breaks two (2) other modules, complaining about ``broken pipe'': /etc/rcS.d/S36ramdisk.pkg, line 33 /etc/rcS.d/S55urandom.pkg, line 56 Notice, also, that those

[Leaf-user] syslinux.cfg: *maximum* line length ???

2001-10-17 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Trying to load many modules at the LRP= point in syslinux.cfg in Dachstein-CD. It appears that when the third line, beginning ``default linux . . .'' exceeds 253 characters, all items _after_ this point are ignored. Is the only workaround adding an lrpkg.cfg to floppy? What do you think? --

[Leaf-user] ERROR: iptraf ???

2001-10-13 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Anybody seen this error on executing iptraf? ``Error opening TCP/UDP filter file Press a key to continue'' What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional

[Leaf-user] Dachstein-CD: network.conf ???

2001-10-13 Thread Michael D. Schleif
How to configure external interface when it gets IP, et al., from ISP? /etc/network.conf has these defaults: eth0_IPADDR=1.1.1.2 eth0_MASKLEN=30 eth0_BROADCAST=+ Are these dummies that are always *overwritten* during the address subscription phase? Also, I notice

[Leaf-user] *real* grep for LEAF ???

2001-10-11 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Anybody compiled any *real* grep for use in LEAF? I can't say how many times that I wished I could do -i or -v . . . -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we

[Leaf-user] Who's experienced integrating WIC's into LEAF/LRP ???

2001-09-28 Thread Michael D. Schleif
We have an application that behooves us to include T-1/CSU/DSU into an LEAF/LRP box. So far, we have built several boxen that relied on Cisco routers to handle the WAN side. We are investigating products by Cyclades and Sangoma, which seem to meet our needs. However, never having done this,

[Leaf-user] WIC's LRP-CD ???

2001-09-28 Thread Michael D. Schleif
We have an application that behooves us to include T-1/CSU/DSU into an LEAF/LRP box. So far, we have built several boxen that relied on Cisco routers to handle the WAN side. We are investigating products by Cyclades and Sangoma, which seem to meet our needs. [1] Is LRP-CD ready to run these

Re: [Leaf-user] dhcp on public interface ???

2001-09-25 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Yes, of course. I looked at that last night and I understand how to use it. Thank you. *Where* in syslinux.cfg should it go? LRP=etc,local,dhcpd,modules,ramdisk,ssh-1,sshd-1,update I'd _guess_ between local and dhcpd ??? Actually, anywhere in

[Leaf-user] dhcp on public interface ???

2001-09-23 Thread Michael D. Schleif
I am preparing to change an Edge/thinlinux firewall to LRP-CD. Unlike my other successful implementations, the external interface gets an dhcp address; but, requires a special identifier, which Edge calls ``dhcpcd_clientid''. Can I use dhcpd.lrp in this scenario? How do I configure this

Re: [Leaf-user] dachstein-pr2 available

2001-09-21 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles == Will this work as updates to LRP-CD? What needs to be done? Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I have just posted pre-release version 2 (pr2) of dachstein. The main change from pr1 is the merging of the several versions of firewall scripts I've got floating around. I've finally

[Leaf-user] PCAnywhere vs. LRP-CD ???

2001-07-03 Thread Michael D. Schleif
OK, we know how to open ports tcp 5631 and udp 5632, and we can connect to PCAnywhere hosts behind LRP-CD -- from the Internet in general. However, specifically, when site A is behind LRP-CD(A) and site B is behind LRP-CD(B) and we are inside site B, we *cannot* connect to PCAnywhere hosts

Re: [Leaf-user] mailonerr does *not* work!

2001-07-03 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: We've *not* been able to get mailonerr/moe.config to work (from Charles' website: http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/Packages/Utilities.htm). root@bluetrout:/var/log # /usr/local/bin/mailonerr /usr/local/bin/mailonerr: 56: Syntax error: end of file unexpected

Re: [Leaf-user] PCAnywhere vs. LRP-CD ???

2001-07-03 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: OK, we know how to open ports tcp 5631 and udp 5632, and we can connect to PCAnywhere hosts behind LRP-CD -- from the Internet in general. However, specifically, when site A is behind LRP-CD(A) and site B is behind LRP-CD(B) and we are inside site B, we

Re: [Leaf-user] PCAnywhere vs. LRP-CD ???

2001-07-03 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Check your firewall logs on both LRP-CD systems looking for denied packets. I'd bet you're dropping some traffic PCAnywhere needs to function... Yes, our first thoughts also -- however, neither side has anything in /var/log/kern.log . . . Only

[Leaf-user] Need firewall design advice

2001-06-30 Thread Michael D. Schleif
We have a network of (64) public addresses connected to the Internet via DSL modem. This network consists of wintels and macs, and management of each is by different groups. Other than the Netopia DSL router, everything inside this network is 100% switched. Management insists that any user

[Leaf-user] mailonerr does *not* work!

2001-06-30 Thread Michael D. Schleif
We've *not* been able to get mailonerr/moe.config to work (from Charles' website: http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/Packages/Utilities.htm). root@bluetrout:/var/log # /usr/local/bin/mailonerr /usr/local/bin/mailonerr: 56: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting }) root@bluetrout:/var/log #

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