Re: Cable Internet

2007-04-16 Thread Julian Daich
Hi, El lun, 16-04-2007 a las 10:46 +1000, Geoff Shang escribió: I'm about to move to Israel with my wife. We've managed to land ourselves a good deal for cable Internet, and I've been reading conflicting information about how it works. The best way I found to deal with cable was calling

Re: Cable Internet

2007-04-16 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Julian Daich wrote: [snip] El lun, 16-04-2007 a las 10:46 +1000, Geoff Shang escribi?: I'm about to move to Israel with my wife. We've managed to land ourselves a good deal for cable Internet, and I've been reading conflicting information about how it works. [snip]

Re: Linux friendly hardware RAID card in Israel

2007-04-16 Thread Marc Volovic
On Monday 16 April 2007 03:08, Arieh Skliarouk quoth: Hi, LSI Logic have multiple models. From 150-4 (4 SATA-1 ports) to 300-8X (8 SATA-2 ports). I am using an LSI 150-6 (6 SATA-1 ports) and it can be installed transparently. The later models (3xx) have RAID 0,1,5,6,1+0 and 10. The earlier

Re: Cable Internet

2007-04-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:40:23AM +0300, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: AFAIK and at least until four months ago, cable uses L2TP. For more information check out http://www.netcheif.com/Articles/BrdBandDefs/BrdBandDefs.htm This is a Hebrew article - is there something similar in English? I've

Re: Cable Internet

2007-04-16 Thread Julian Daich
El lun, 16-04-2007 a las 10:40 +0300, Jonathan Ben Avraham escribió: http://www.netcheif.com/Articles/BrdBandDefs/BrdBandDefs.htm This is a Hebrew article - is there something similar in English? - yba You are right. Sorry( see original Geoff comments bellow). At least the word Linux

Re: [isramac] connecting with a cable modem

2007-04-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Here's something I wrote to the Israel Mac user's list about it cable modems. I'll make changes where needed: - Forwarded message from Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:57:43 +0200 From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cable Internet

2007-04-16 Thread Jason Friedman
Just a small correction I've never seen anything like it. BTW, routers purchased in the U.S. WON'T work here. The only exception is the Linksys WRTG54-L (linux version) with third party firmware. I have a D-LINK 614+ router purchased in the USA, and it works fine here with cable internet

Re: dynamically configuring ssh ip address

2007-04-16 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On 4/15/07, Maxim Veksler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/15/07, Ehud Karni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:18:20 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: That said, I'm not sure that I can trust SSH_CLIENT/SSH_CONNECTION since they are passed from the client. Maybe a getpeername(2) on

Re: dynamically configuring ssh ip address

2007-04-16 Thread Amos Shapira
On 16/04/07, Ilya Konstantinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just when did this list go crazy? There's a solution fitting your problem - dynamic DNS (with DNSSEC). Why hack something when any modern DNS server supports it through configuration? When not having access to the DNS server to enable

Re: dynamically configuring ssh ip address

2007-04-16 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On 4/16/07, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16/04/07, Ilya Konstantinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just when did this list go crazy? There's a solution fitting your problem - dynamic DNS (with DNSSEC). Why hack something when any modern DNS server supports it through configuration?

Wireless PCI card that can act as Access Point ?

2007-04-16 Thread Maxim Veksler
Hello, Could someone please recommend a PCI WiFi card with prism 2/2.5/3 chipset available for purchase in Israel ? I would like to make an AP from it based on RH4. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/10/1729226 Can't find any of those in Zap or anything

Re: Wireless PCI card that can act as Access Point ?

2007-04-16 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Maxim Veksler: Could someone please recommend a PCI WiFi card with prism 2/2.5/3 chipset available for purchase in Israel ? I would like to make an AP from it based on RH4. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/10/1729226 Can't find any of those in Zap or anything

Re: Cable Internet

2007-04-16 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, Thanks to everyone who responded. So it seems that some howtos need updating. Ok so since I'm going to get a router eventually anyway, I need to get one that does L2TP, right? Are most Israeli routers L2TP enabled or do I need to specifically ask for it? I was hoping in the short

Re: Wireless PCI card that can act as Access Point ?

2007-04-16 Thread Arieh Skliarouk
Hi, I assume you want to use your box as router+WiFi or such. Instead of building the configuration from scratch, I would recommend to look at LinkSys WRT54GL, which is availabe on zap: http://web.zap.co.il/models.asp?sog=keyword=WRT54GL And then reflash it with Linux:

Re: Cable Internet

2007-04-16 Thread Dani
Hi! ADSL standard is PPPoE . Dani Geoff Shang wrote: Hello, Thanks to everyone who responded. So it seems that some howtos need updating. Ok so since I'm going to get a router eventually anyway, I need to get one that does L2TP, right? Are most Israeli routers L2TP enabled or do I

Re: Cable Internet

2007-04-16 Thread Julian Daich
El lun, 16-04-2007 a las 21:51 +1000, Geoff Shang escribió: Hello, Thanks to everyone who responded. So it seems that some howtos need updating. Ok so since I'm going to get a router eventually anyway, I need to get one that does L2TP, right? Are most Israeli routers L2TP enabled or

Re: Linux friendly hardware RAID card in Israel

2007-04-16 Thread Dan Bar Dov
I have used RAIDCore cards (then Broadcom). Purchased from Excellnet. I used 8 port cards, and the beauty is that since they do software raid, you can combine up to 4 controllers and created a 32 drives RAID array (16TB with 500GB SATA disks ). The driver is not open-source, but they provide

Recommendation for software/hardware for virtualization

2007-04-16 Thread Tzahi Fadida
Hi, As part of my new job, i am going to develop also windows kernel/drivers. Therefore i will have to (naturally) run windows, however, i got comfortable with linux desktop and i am reluctant to move back to windows as my main desktop environment. What are my options, considering i am willing

Re: Recommendation for software/hardware for virtualization

2007-04-16 Thread Omer Zak
I think that your best bet would be to use virtual machines (VMware or competitor). You can (EULA permitting) save copies of images at various stages of installation and operation. Then, when something goes wrong (as it invariably would), you can restore an older image, with cost only of copying

Re: Recommendation for software/hardware for virtualization

2007-04-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As part of my new job, i am going to develop also windows kernel/drivers. Therefore i will have to (naturally) run windows, however, i got comfortable with linux desktop and i am reluctant to move back to windows as my main desktop environment. Don't.

Re: Recommendation for software/hardware for virtualization

2007-04-16 Thread Tzahi Fadida
On Monday 16 April 2007 22:16:00 Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: 5) A virtual machine such as VMware. You will need a decent computer, enough memory, etc., but the requirements are modest by today's standards. I run Linux on a T43 Thinkpad and there are some things (being nice to co-workers

OLPC talk by Zvi Devir

2007-04-16 Thread Oron Peled
Hi, The talk today: http://haifux.org/lectures/163/ Was excellent (at least the part I saw, I got late). Few photos of the toy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oron_peled Photos of some people were sent to the guilty by private mail ;-) -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax:

Re: Recommendation for software/hardware for virtualization

2007-04-16 Thread guy keren
Tzahi Fadida wrote: On Monday 16 April 2007 22:16:00 Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: 5) A virtual machine such as VMware. You will need a decent computer, enough memory, etc., but the requirements are modest by today's standards. I run Linux on a T43 Thinkpad and there are some things (being

Re: Recommendation for software/hardware for virtualization

2007-04-16 Thread Tzahi Fadida
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 01:29:44 guy keren wrote: Tzahi Fadida wrote: On Monday 16 April 2007 22:16:00 Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: 5) A virtual machine such as VMware. You will need a decent computer, enough memory, etc., but the requirements are modest by today's standards. I run Linux