Re: OT Telstra Cable Grey box on side of house

2009-06-08 Thread Brett Davidson
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Sun 07 Jun 2009 12:46:17 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote: There is a box on the side of the house, and two coax cables come out. I'd like to disconnect the second cable and run another one to the cupboard but I am damned if I can get the cover off. Heh, I'd like

Re: OT Telstra Cable Grey box on side of house

2009-06-08 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:41 PM, dave wrote: > Snipped* >> >> OK I have officially chickened out and TC technician is coming to do >> it on Friday (after 25 minutes on the phone!) > > Can you be a noise old sod and just be completely unplesant and look over > the guy's shoulder (ergo next ti

Re: OT Telstra Cable Grey box on side of house

2009-06-07 Thread dave
Snipped* > > OK I have officially chickened out and TC technician is coming to do > it on Friday (after 25 minutes on the phone!) Can you be a noise old sod and just be completely unplesant and look over the guy's shoulder (ergo next time you will have some pointers ). and able to tell r

Re: OT Telstra Cable Grey box on side of house

2009-06-07 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Craig Falconer wrote: > Nick Rout wrote, On 08/06/09 11:31: >> >> OK well I wonder what they do if when there are two points inside the >> house? Maybe there is more than one connector inside the grey box? > > If the signal is too weak, they'll connect you to the ho

Re: OT Telstra Cable Grey box on side of house

2009-06-07 Thread Craig Falconer
Nick Rout wrote, On 08/06/09 11:31: OK well I wonder what they do if when there are two points inside the house? Maybe there is more than one connector inside the grey box? If the signal is too weak, they'll connect you to the hot tap inside the PED, rather than the lower signal one. Howev

Re: OT Telstra Cable Grey box on side of house

2009-06-07 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Craig Falconer wrote: > Nick Rout wrote, On 08/06/09 10:51: >> >> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Craig >> Falconer wrote: >>> >>> I had to open mine to replace the weatherboard it was screwed to. >>> Damn rot and bora... never buy a weatherboard house. >>> >>> Any

Re: OT Telstra Cable Grey box on side of house

2009-06-07 Thread Craig Falconer
Nick Rout wrote, On 08/06/09 10:51: On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Craig Falconer wrote: I had to open mine to replace the weatherboard it was screwed to. Damn rot and bora... never buy a weatherboard house. Anyway from memory it was clipped at the bottom and had a security cable tie on it to

Re: OT Telstra Cable Grey box on side of house

2009-06-07 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Craig Falconer wrote: > I had to open mine to replace the weatherboard it was screwed to. > Damn rot and bora... never buy a weatherboard house. > > Anyway from memory it was clipped at the bottom and had a security cable tie > on it too.   So unclip the bottom with

Re: OT Telstra Cable Grey box on side of house

2009-06-07 Thread Craig Falconer
6: I have telstra cable and want to re-route the cable so that my internet connection is terminated inside the computer datacentre (aka the cupboard under the stairs). There is a box on the side of the house, and two coax cables come out. One goes to the power pole (we are not undergrounded) and the o

Re: OT Telstra Cable Grey box on side of house

2009-06-06 Thread yuri
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Heh, I'd like to know too. The key for it has the same shape as a socket > from the usual socket sets, except it is square, not hexagonal. In fact > it looks very identical to those old square-socket-on-a-handle keys > railwaymen carried to open all the doors passengers are

Re: OT Telstra Cable Grey box on side of house

2009-06-06 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Sun 07 Jun 2009 12:46:17 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > There is a box on the side of the house, and two coax cables come out. > I'd like to disconnect the second cable and run another one to the > cupboard but I am damned if I can get the cover off. Heh, I'd like to know too. The key for it h

Re: OT Telstra Cable Grey box on side of house

2009-06-06 Thread yuri
Nick Rout wrote: > I'd like to disconnect the second cable and run another one to the > cupboard but I am damned if I can get the cover off. Does anyone know > how to get inside the grey box? It must have some clever catch. It is > about 6" by 3" with a Saturn logo on the front. Look all around fo

OT Telstra Cable Grey box on side of house

2009-06-06 Thread Nick Rout
I have telstra cable and want to re-route the cable so that my internet connection is terminated inside the computer datacentre (aka the cupboard under the stairs). There is a box on the side of the house, and two coax cables come out. One goes to the power pole (we are not undergrounded) and the

Telstra cable traffic script

2007-09-02 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Last weekend Telstra changed their traffic meter websites, breaking the parsing of those pages by my telstracabletraffic script. An updated version of the script can be downloaded from the usual place: http://volker.top.geek.nz/soft/script/telstracabletraffic Have fun. Volker -- Volker Kuhlman

Re: Telstra Cable DNS flaky?

2006-10-10 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:59, you wrote: > Are you sure its just DNS? Lately I;ve noticed lots of mini-outages of > about 10 minutes... Up to two or three a day. Yes, I'm pretty sure. When I first noticed it I tried pinging a host in the UK whose IP address I knew, then I tried pinging a named ho

RE: Telstra Cable DNS flaky?

2006-10-10 Thread Craig FALCONER
Are you sure its just DNS? Lately I;ve noticed lots of mini-outages of about 10 minutes... Up to two or three a day. -Original Message- From: Andrew Errington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2006 2:40 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: OT: Telstra

Re: OT: Telstra Cable DNS flaky?

2006-10-09 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> You mean the well-known moving targets aka telstra dns. Haha :) > According to literature, broadband > (adsl ) is 203.97.33.14/203.97.37.14 - these two are great. Not much literature needed there, just a reverse, which easily tells that those are the two Clearnet name servers. > And if that's

Re: OT: Telstra Cable DNS flaky?

2006-10-09 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> > > I have noticed that periodically throughout the day today I > > > cannot resolve host names. This happens irregularly with TelstraClear's > primary 203.96.152.4 > secondary 203.96.152.12 name servers, and has done so for years. Sometimes I get fed up and add an xtra serve

Re: OT: Telstra Cable DNS flaky?

2006-10-09 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 14:57, Andrew Errington wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:49, you wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:40:18PM +1200, Andrew Errington wrote: > > > I have noticed that periodically throughout the day today I > > > cannot resolve host names. Web browsing hangs (cannot find

Re: OT: Telstra Cable DNS flaky?

2006-10-09 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:49:18 +0100 Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:40:18PM +1200, Andrew Errington wrote: > > I have noticed that periodically throughout the day today I > > cannot resolve host names. Web browsing hangs (cannot find server), email > > won't

Re: OT: Telstra Cable DNS flaky?

2006-10-09 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:49, you wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:40:18PM +1200, Andrew Errington wrote: > > I have noticed that periodically throughout the day today I > > cannot resolve host names. Web browsing hangs (cannot find server), > > email won't send (cannot find server) or can't be fe

Re: OT: Telstra Cable DNS flaky?

2006-10-09 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:40:18PM +1200, Andrew Errington wrote: > I have noticed that periodically throughout the day today I > cannot resolve host names. Web browsing hangs (cannot find server), email > won't send (cannot find server) or can't be fetched, and my hourly weather > graphs have

OT: Telstra Cable DNS flaky?

2006-10-09 Thread Andrew Errington
Hi, Now that Jim has a nice new cable connection I hope he is not plagued by DNS failures. I have noticed that periodically throughout the day today I cannot resolve host names. Web browsing hangs (cannot find server), email won't send (cannot find server) or can't be fetched, and my hourly w

Re: Telstra Cable increases download speed

2006-07-24 Thread yuda
Neat. so I guess all that viagra spam will be getting to my inbox twice as fast Y. Quoting Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: No it just means you can get to the limit, so they charge you for the extra, a lot earlier in the month. On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:28:26 +1200 Andrew Errington wrote: I

Re: Telstra Cable increases download speed

2006-07-24 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:26, you wrote: > What impact does it have on the network to let the data move thru it at > full speed? > > Holding the data up takes more resource than just letting it rip. > > Cheers Don Hmm. Sage advice indeed. A

Re: Telstra Cable increases download speed

2006-07-24 Thread Don Gould
o" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:59 AM Subject: Re: Telstra Cable increases download speed It is so you can use is faster very wise thinking. - Original Message - From: "Andrew Errington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: T

Re: Telstra Cable increases download speed

2006-07-24 Thread Don Gould
ect: Re: Telstra Cable increases download speed It is so you can use is faster very wise thinking. - Original Message - From: "Andrew Errington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:28 AM Subject: Telstra Cable increases download speed

Re: Telstra Cable increases download speed

2006-07-24 Thread Johnno
It is so you can use is faster very wise thinking. - Original Message - From: "Andrew Errington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:28 AM Subject: Telstra Cable increases download speed > I am told (in a breathless email, albeit with o

RE: Telstra Cable increases download speed

2006-07-24 Thread Craig FALCONER
: Re: Telstra Cable increases download speed No it just means you can get to the limit, so they charge you for the extra, a lot earlier in the month. On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:28:26 +1200 Andrew Errington wrote: > I am told (in a breathless email, albeit with only one exclamation > mark)

Re: Telstra Cable increases download speed

2006-07-24 Thread Nick Rout
No it just means you can get to the limit, so they charge you for the extra, a lot earlier in the month. On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:28:26 +1200 Andrew Errington wrote: > I am told (in a breathless email, albeit with only one exclamation mark) > that my cable service will be changing from 2Mbps to

Telstra Cable increases download speed

2006-07-24 Thread Andrew Errington
I am told (in a breathless email, albeit with only one exclamation mark) that my cable service will be changing from 2Mbps to 4Mbps sometime in the next month, for no extra charge. Clearly they have so much bandwidth they are just giving it away. A

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-25 Thread yuri
On 22/06/06, Steve Holdoway wrote: You normally plug it into a switch ( or firewall then switch ). It won't work plugged into a switch or hub. It will work plugged into the WAN side of a router, or directly into the ethernet port of any computer (OS independant). On a box running IPCop, Smooth

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-23 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Let me know if you need more boxes. I have a couple of PII-200's and some > NIC's. Thanks Rob, much appreciated. Installing pfsense and ipcop on a Duron 600 takes about 10 minutes. Would the audience wait that long? Endian needs ages to install, so that's a pre-pared business, so to say. Each

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Robert Fisher
On Friday 23 June 2006 9:12 am, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Yeah ok, I'll demo a few firewalls. Thanks for that offer of a box, I'm > not sure whether I'll have a spare computer to wreck at the time, or > whether Xen would do it. Someone would need to lend some wireless stuff > for the demo too. Let

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:02:18PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:54:01 +0100 Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:31:00PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > No, but I find the openvpn extension very useful, even if it won't > > > connect ne

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:54:01 +0100 Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:31:00PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > No, but I find the openvpn extension very useful, even if it won't connect > > networks. > > Can't you? Must admit that I've never tried, but assumed t

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:31:00PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > No, but I find the openvpn extension very useful, even if it won't connect > networks. Can't you? Must admit that I've never tried, but assumed that Ethernet bridging would go some way to addressing this, if ip_forward on a central

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Steve Holdoway
sage- > > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, 23 June 2006 10:01 a.m. > > To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz > > Subject: Re: Telstra cable... > > > > > > > > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:51:59 +1200 > > Craig FALCONER

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Col
nge than a "real" access > point - but the wireless support was really intended for point to point > links. > > > -Original Message- > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 23 June 2006 10:01 a.m. > To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz

RE: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Craig FALCONER
upport was really intended for point to point links. -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 23 June 2006 10:01 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Telstra cable... On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:51:59 +1200 Craig FALCONER wrote: > On

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> So is my IPCop box (P120, 40Mb ram, 512Mb disk) likely to be slowing > down my 256k internet (Wireless Web) connection? No. 256kbit is nothing. Even the old wireless standard does 11Mbit. I don't see a reason why the system requirements for ipcop and pfsense should be different, but pfsense is

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:51:59 +1200 Craig FALCONER wrote: > On Fri, June 23, 2006 12:36 am, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > What I like to have demonstrated is extending IPCop to allow the use > > of the Orinoco wireless driver so that my ThinkPad laptop can connect > > to the 'Net using a wir

IP Cop was RE: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Craig FALCONER
check out the gui in IPCop - it should have some sort of "current throughput" page somewhere. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kerry Mayes Sent: Friday, 23 June 2006 9:35 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Tel

pfSense memory usage was RE: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Craig FALCONER
che buffers. I don't run any swap space - that is probably what made me think of 128 Mb minimum ram. -Original Message- From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 23 June 2006 9:13 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Telstra cable... [pf

RE: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Craig FALCONER
On Fri, June 23, 2006 12:36 am, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > What I like to have demonstrated is extending IPCop to allow the use > of the Orinoco wireless driver so that my ThinkPad laptop can connect > to the 'Net using a wireless card. As there is only 1 lappie here at > home, it should be p

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Kerry Mayes
So is my IPCop box (P120, 40Mb ram, 512Mb disk) likely to be slowing down my 256k internet (Wireless Web) connection? How would I tell? On 23/06/06, Craig FALCONER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running pfSense on a P166 with 256 Mb ram... Its fine, and still passes packets faster than the inte

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Honestly - you are going to have to configure the firewall box when you get > it home, and installation is only a little harder. Ack. Insert CD, answer some basic questions. For the basic setup of 1 adsl modem, 1 computer, ipcop is superbly easy though (I did say hobby-level?), not much understa

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
[pfsense] > The memeory requirement is real though - you do need 112 Mb absolute > minimum. Where does this requirement come from? perhaps it's dependent on how you configure it. I'm running it with just 64MB ram with 3 interfaces and a pile of NAT and routing rules, and it's faster than the cable

RE: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Craig FALCONER
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 23 June 2006 6:30 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Telstra cable... On Thursday 22 June 2006 7:11 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > Volker, I see that pfserve requires a 128Mb 400Mhz machine. Do you > > have a better alternative to Ipcop tha

RE: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Craig FALCONER
I have a P2 266 box here that is available for a demo if someone wants to do it. -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 June 2006 7:23 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Telstra cable... Is this an offer to demo at a clug meeting

RE: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Craig FALCONER
nt is real though - you do need 112 Mb absolute minimum. -Original Message- From: Kerry Mayes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 June 2006 6:53 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Telstra cable... Volker, I see that pfserve requires a 128Mb 400Mhz machine. Do you

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, June 23, 2006 12:36 am, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Thursday 22 June 2006 17:44, Steve Holdoway wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:02:59 +1200 >> >> Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > IPCop is fine, despite Volker's prejudices. >> > >> > You can call it prejudice, I'll stay

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Robert Fisher
On Thursday 22 June 2006 7:11 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > Volker, I see that pfserve requires a 128Mb 400Mhz machine. Do you > > have a better alternative to Ipcop that runs (well) on a 40Mb 120Mhz > > clunker? > I was in Molten Media yesterday and noticed they had boxes with IPCop pre-install

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thursday 22 June 2006 17:44, Steve Holdoway wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:02:59 +1200 > > Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > IPCop is fine, despite Volker's prejudices. > > > > You can call it prejudice, I'll stay with considered opinion :) > > > > Volker > > ...and I'll stick wi

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Ben Devine
If you want something for a slighter lesser machine try m0n0wall pfsense is based on it, and it doesnt have alot of the "bloat"http://m0n0.ch/wall/On 6/22/06, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PS Happy to demonstrate both.> Is this an offer to demo at a clug meeting ?You're probably a

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> > PS Happy to demonstrate both. > Is this an offer to demo at a clug meeting ? You're probably able to twist my arm. Actually it would be much less preparation than the photo talks. People might get a bit tired of me though... OTOH none else has put themselves forward at http://clug.net.nz/inde

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread dave
Is this an offer to demo at a clug meeting ? Chris where are you when an offer comes up like this :) On Thursday 22 June 2006 17:02, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > IPCop is fine, despite Volker's prejudices. > > Actually, I spent a lot of time investigating various firewall > softwares, and then

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-22 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Volker, I see that pfserve requires a 128Mb 400Mhz machine. Do you > have a better alternative to Ipcop that runs (well) on a 40Mb 120Mhz > clunker? It runs fine on a pmmx 233MHz with 64MB ram, and I don't think it uses all that memory. P-II's can be had for $50 I believe (makes a soekris very

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Kerry Mayes
On 22/06/06, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:02:59 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IPCop is fine, despite Volker's prejudices. > > > You can call it prejudice, I'll stay with considered opinion :) > > Volker ...and I'll stick with 2 years of

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:02:59 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IPCop is fine, despite Volker's prejudices. > > > You can call it prejudice, I'll stay with considered opinion :) > > Volker ...and I'll stick with 2 years of faultless service to convince me. Steve

Re: Voyage [was Re: Telstra cable...]

2006-06-21 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:08:36 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:44:09 +1200 > Hadley Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 22 June 2006 16:36, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > I've tried a lot of the dedicated linux wireless distro's, and have > > > settle

Re: Voyage [was Re: Telstra cable...]

2006-06-21 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:13:07 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:56:47 +1200 > Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > and I'm also trying to get trixbox running on my Ubuntu server ( tedious as > > it's designed for RH ) so I can free up the P4 based syst

Re: Voyage [was Re: Telstra cable...]

2006-06-21 Thread Hadley Rich
On Thursday 22 June 2006 17:13, Nick Rout wrote: > Is trixbox the artist formerly known as asteriskathome? Indeed hads -- A statesman is what politicians call themselves.

Re: Voyage [was Re: Telstra cable...]

2006-06-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:56:47 +1200 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and I'm also trying to get trixbox running on my Ubuntu server ( tedious as > it's designed for RH ) so I can free up the P4 based system that's currently > running asterisk ( very well, I might add! ) Is trixbox the

Re: Voyage [was Re: Telstra cable...]

2006-06-21 Thread Hadley Rich
On Thursday 22 June 2006 16:56, Steve Holdoway wrote: > I've got a soekris 4801 and a 4 port digium card up and running, with the > card visible. As the card needs power provide the ringtone, it's running > off an enormous Jaycar special 40w transformer heh, yeah, I think saw your post to the Soe

Re: Voyage [was Re: Telstra cable...]

2006-06-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:44:09 +1200 Hadley Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 22 June 2006 16:36, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > I've tried a lot of the dedicated linux wireless distro's, and have settled > > on voyage as the best ap software. I'm currently working on extending it to > > also

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> IPCop is fine, despite Volker's prejudices. Actually, I spent a lot of time investigating various firewall softwares, and then decided to settle on ipcop, for various reasons. While I was configuring it, I needed a couple of extra ackages. The first one shat itself with a segfault, seen when ssh

Re: Voyage [was Re: Telstra cable...]

2006-06-21 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:44:09 +1200 Hadley Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 22 June 2006 16:36, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > I've tried a lot of the dedicated linux wireless distro's, and have settled > > on voyage as the best ap software. I'm currently working on extending it to > > also

Voyage [was Re: Telstra cable...]

2006-06-21 Thread Hadley Rich
On Thursday 22 June 2006 16:36, Steve Holdoway wrote: > I've tried a lot of the dedicated linux wireless distro's, and have settled > on voyage as the best ap software. I'm currently working on extending it to > also run asterisk, which is fun! Cool, does it need much work to get Asterisk running?

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:12:31 +1200 Andy George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct. I dont have to maintain a heartbeat at all. UTP cable to > modem (which is only a means of transport), the GATEWAY does the NAT and > Routing and so forth... Haven't had to do anything with heartbeats since I

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> On the topic of DNS though, I have found TC DNS servers to be less than > stellar in terms of being up-to-date. ... less than stellar in terms of being up. But never mind, you can configure Telecomic's name servers instead if you prefer. A DNS cache on the local LAN might be a good idea too.

RE: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Craig FALCONER
Linksys WRT54GL for ~$154 from ascent.co.nz Its good, and WPA just works. -Original Message- From: Don Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 June 2006 3:19 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Telstra cable... Andy George wrote: > > I use IPCop

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Don Gould
Andy George wrote: I use IPCop as the Gateway, and it just works.. No intervention from me required. Your wireless/wired setup sounds just the ticket. I'm interested in how the wireless part of this goes, cause thinking of doing a wireless home setup myself in the near future... Linux ba

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Andy George
Correct. I dont have to maintain a heartbeat at all. UTP cable to modem (which is only a means of transport), the GATEWAY does the NAT and Routing and so forth... I use IPCop as the Gateway, and it just works.. No intervention from me required. Your wireless/wired setup sounds just the tic

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Don Gould
Andy George wrote: Whats your plan? Sounds like you have a few ideas floating around there, with no set goal. Tell us what your after, and lets see what comes to the top... In AU TCC requires software to put a heart beat on the line. I think you've indirectly said that there's no such t

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Andy George
Sorry about the address, yeah, I run a linux server this side, helped by a static address. It's good learning for IRCds, Linux game servers of many flavours, MTAs and setting them up, Bind DNS (which I'm reasonably raw at), and so on... All boring as hell, but attempting to get this back on t

RE: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Davidson, Brett (Managed Services)
Andy George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 June 2006 2:54 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Telstra cable... Static. Dont think they like Dynamic Addresses. Harder to track stuff with a dynamic address. Harder to offer DNS toys with a dynamic address too... Dav

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Andy George
what would it take to get a static address from them? *From:* Ben Devine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, 22 June 2006 2:03 p.m. *To:* linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz *Subject:* Re: Telstra cable... It is

RE: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Davidson, Brett (Managed Services)
: Telstra cable... It is *normally* terminated as ethernet. They will need a power socket as in one of the boxes they install is a media converter. You simply need your machine to be natting to share it over your network. Also the ip they are providing you may be required to configure your interface

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 02:02:03PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:56:33 +1200 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know they supply a modem, what do I need to plug that in to? > > > You normally plug it into a switch ( or firewall then switch ). And don't forget the

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Ben Devine
Woops Sorry I mis-read fibre :pOn 6/22/06, Andy George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don Gould wrote:> TCC is being installed on a site on Friday that I have to supervise... >> Is anyone on cable that can tell me what is required?...from you?...  Nothing.  Modem doesnt care for it's own IP address, so

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Andy George
Don Gould wrote: TCC is being installed on a site on Friday that I have to supervise... Is anyone on cable that can tell me what is required? ...from you?... Nothing. Modem doesnt care for it's own IP address, so you'll need a router or machine that can host a 203.xxx.yyy.zzz ip addres

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Ben Devine
It is *normally* terminated as ethernet. They will need a power socket as in one of the boxes they install is a media converter. You simply need your machine to be natting to share it over your network. Also the ip they are providing you may be required to configure your interface. On 6/22/06, Don

Re: Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:56:33 +1200 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TCC is being installed on a site on Friday that I have to supervise... > > Is anyone on cable that can tell me what is required? > > I know they supply a modem, what do I need to plug that in to? > > Can I put it directl

Telstra cable...

2006-06-21 Thread Don Gould
TCC is being installed on a site on Friday that I have to supervise... Is anyone on cable that can tell me what is required? I know they supply a modem, what do I need to plug that in to? Can I put it directly into the back of a debian machine? What software do I need install? Then I can j

RE: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Craig FALCONER
al Message- From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 May 2006 10:59 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Telstra cable usage downloader > Yeah - unfortunately I use the 192.168./16 range both at work and at home. Why'd you make it /16? I

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> > 172.16.0.31:138 -> 172.16.0.255:138, hmmm. > > This is in the non-broadcast class b address range... 172.16.0.0/12. > Are you sure this interface is a /24 subnet? No, no way of knowing. Come to think of it, as they need one 172. per customer, they probably used all the available space. And the

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Yeah - unfortunately I use the 192.168./16 range both at work and at home. Why'd you make it /16? I mean, do you have more than 254 boxes at home? And then I never understood why people willingly type 1 9 2. bummer what was that number again, when they could just be typing 10.0.0 > Got to wond

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Steve Holdoway
> Put a non-log rule in [1]. I get IGMP from 172.16.0.5, which is > in the 172.16/16 of my cable modem's HFC address [2], but not in its > 172.../24. I assume it's from Telstra, if it's from a sad customer, > Telstra shouldn't be routing it. But then I get udp > 172.16.0.31:138 -> 172.16.0.255:1

RE: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Craig FALCONER
e 172.* addresses. -Original Message- From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 May 2006 10:24 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Telstra cable usage downloader [2] Stick a static route 192.168.100.0/24 gateway x.y.z.1 (your gateway address) into your r

RE: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Craig FALCONER
ac.nz Subject: Re: Telstra cable usage downloader On Thu, 25 May 2006 09:01, you wrote: > Interestingly, there are dhcp answers being handed out on the cable, > by 172.20.18.55 > Yes, I noticed that, when I was fiddling (since I have a fixed IP from Telstra I don't need their dhcp.) A

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> My home IP is 203.97.119.201 so anything outside of 203.97.119 should be > charged. Looks like their upstream router allows layer2 (arp etc) through > without charging, and probably broadcast layer 3 (dhcp/bootp) Yes, and IGMP. Probably all the lower level "glue" protocols are uncharged. Hmm, h

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Andrew Errington
On Thu, 25 May 2006 09:01, you wrote: > Well its most definitely not in my /24 > > My home IP is 203.97.119.201 so anything outside of 203.97.119 should be > charged. Looks like their upstream router allows layer2 (arp etc) > through without charging, and probably broadcast layer 3 (dhcp/bootp) >

RE: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Craig FALCONER
handed out on the cable, by 172.20.18.55 -Original Message- From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 24 May 2006 9:57 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Telstra cable usage downloader > This traffic is not accounted for as part of your traf

RE: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Craig FALCONER
Dwoops sorry http://criggie.dyndns.org/pfsense/2hours.png -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 24 May 2006 4:43 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Telstra cable usage downloader On Wed, 24 May 2006 16:33:10 +1200 Craig

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Not really. mrtg was originally designed to monitor ethernet ports. > There's no difference between monitoring the outgoing port on the > switch/server or the incoming port on the cable modem. If the modem is transparent, you're right. However, that number is of literally no use - it includes al

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> volker i belong to the nz adsl/broadband mailiong list, although i > rarely read it. I'll scan my archives for you, see if anyone has > mentioned this. Thanks but no need, I'm subscribed too. The broadband hadn't had a post in a year, the adsl one doesn't usually discuss cable, it's fairly quiet

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 24 May 2006 22:24:37 +1200 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 24 May 2006 21:57:21 +1200 > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 May 2006 20:58:44 +1200 > > Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > ... if you're that worried, look at the thresh

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 24 May 2006 21:57:21 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 24 May 2006 20:58:44 +1200 > Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ... if you're that worried, look at the thresholding options in mrtg/rrd, > > and shut it down automatically. > > > begin chicken egg r

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 24 May 2006 20:58:44 +1200 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... if you're that worried, look at the thresholding options in mrtg/rrd, and > shut it down automatically. begin chicken egg repeat volker needs to get the data first. volker i belong to the nz adsl/broadband mail

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