Re: [SLUG] Firewall dropping packets

> "Marshall, Joshua" wrote: > > The 10.10.10.x LAN cannot ping the system past 10.0.5.6 (which is > > firewall) - every second packet is being dropped, no matter what the > > size. > > What does this mean? > > Perhaps you have dodgy hardware? The packets

Re: [SLUG] Firewall dropping packets

"Marshall, Joshua" wrote: > IP forwarding is enabled, and it is working on the other interfaces. > > Any other clues? > > I noticed that most of the problems seem to be from the 10.0.5.10 to the > 10.10.10.x LAN, not the other way around (tcpdump showed me this) > Try disabling IPchains co

Re: [SLUG] Firewall dropping packets

"Marshall, Joshua" wrote: > The 10.10.10.x LAN cannot ping the system past 10.0.5.6 (which is > firewall) - every second packet is being dropped, no matter what the > size. What does this mean? Perhaps you have dodgy hardware? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] What's on SLUG meeting this wk ??

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 05:42:29PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > anyone ?? > > > There was an announcement sent to the list a couple of days ago, and there's > a big list up on the web page http://slug.org.au/>. But with the large volume of message on [EMAIL PROTECTED] you might have misse

Re: [SLUG] Firewall dropping packets

/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward perhaps. IOW, have you got forwarding enabled on the firewall. -- Howard. __ LANNet Computing Associates On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Marshall, Joshua wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having weird happen

Re: [SLUG] Firewall dropping packets

> Is it possible it's something really simple like not having IP > forwarding enabled on the firewall? > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward IP forwarding is enabled, and it is working on the other interfaces. Any other clues? I noticed that most of the problems seem to be from the 10.0.5.

Re: [SLUG] Firewall dropping packets

"Marshall, Joshua" wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm having weird happenings on my firewall. > [...] > > The problem I'm having is forwarding data between the 10.0.5.6 eth1 to > the 10.10.10.x eth0. Packets are working fine for the rest of the > system. > [...] > The ipchains rules (in, out, forwar

[SLUG] Firewall dropping packets

Hi, I'm having weird happenings on my firewall. I have two ethernet connections, with this setup: 10.10.10.x LAN | 10.10.10.4 (eth0) Firewall 10.0.5.6 (eth1) | 10.0.5.10 WAN 10.0.5.9 | 10.0.5.5 Firewall 2 10.0.1.x | 10.0.1.x LAN The problem I'm having is forwarding

Re: [SLUG] Outgoing port-redirection

Terry Collins wrote: > > Doug Stalker wrote: > > > This doesn't answer your question, and might not be the best solution, > but there are apps like tcpgate, redir, etc that will collect packets > for ports on one machine and redirects them to another machine/port. > > I don't like tcpgate a

Re: [SLUG] Outgoing port-redirection

Doug Stalker wrote: > This works fine, except now teh client wants to change things around a > bit - he wants any packets sent to a particular port (Oracle Database, I > don't know what the number is) to be sent via a different network > interface (I'll callit ethI2). > > If the clients just wa

Re: [SLUG] Reinstalling Lilo on a reiserfs system.

>So what can I do? I need either a boot disk which will let me mount >reiserfs partitions, or a way of installing a boot loader without >mounting the partition that it will be running. Yup. >If it's any help, /boot is a 12 MB ext2 partition. The system itself is >Mandrake 7.1 with a few patc

[SLUG] Outgoing port-redirection

I have a linux box which acts as a gateway: it accepts connection from the internal private network (called ethP), masqurades them and then forwards them out to the internet (via interface ethI) This works fine, except now teh client wants to change things around a bit - he wants any packets s

[SLUG] Reinstalling Lilo on a reiserfs system.

I had to reinstall windows on my dual-boot system, and as expected windows overwrote the lilo boot loader. Easy to fix, I just put in my linux boot disk and boot it up - except teh disk has devoloped a whole bunch of bad sectors. Not a problem! I think. I'll just use a TOMRTBT boot disk to d

Re: [SLUG] Redundant Email systems

I'm using procmail to deliver to Maildir format - which is what Qmail uses. The clients use either POP or IMAP (Most prefer IMAP) I found an article ( http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue73/3778.html ) which describes how to use software raid across the network, I'm going to see what can

Re: [SLUG] Redundant Email systems

> places when the other box comes up and you would have to find a pop > client that would deal with that. Unless you have a third box which NFS > servers /var/spool/mail then you could setup both boxes as primary MX's > and allow either of them to deliver. But you need to make sure you get > locki

Re: [SLUG] What is the best value modem for linux

On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 11:24:22AM +1000, Holroyd Engineering Services ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Now that I've got the linux box to run, I'm thinking about upgrading the > modem to 56k, its currently a lowly 28.8k. Can anyone recommend a good > internal/external modem. I read that software/win

Re: [SLUG] Custom kernels on debian

Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, when I run "apt-get dist-upgrade", it tries to replace my custom kernel > with the one found in dists/proposed-updates. My kernel is the same version > as the debian one, but it's been patched with the new NIC drivers. How can > I stop my system try

RE: [SLUG] ISP DNS woes

Are there other ISPs in > Gosford that are: > a. Cheap? > b. Support Linux? Dingoblue has a Gosford dialin. $25/month for unlimited net access. Dunno what their Gosford POP is like, but Sydney works great. www.dingoblue.com.au btw my number is 100149118 if they asked who referred you :-P dav

RE: [SLUG] Redundant Email systems

I would be concerned about file locking if the mail files are on NFS. If the primary machine goes down, there are no guarantees that it will release the NFS locks before it goes down, and you would be just left with the same problem as before. I would have instead chosen a redundant hardware confi

Re: [SLUG] What is the best value modem for linux

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Holroyd Engineering Services wrote: > Now that I've got the linux box to run, I'm thinking about upgrading the > modem to 56k, its currently a lowly 28.8k. Can anyone recommend a good > internal/external modem. I read that software/win modem is not supported > under linux. F

RE: [SLUG] What is the best value modem for linux

> Now that I've got the linux box to run, I'm thinking about upgrading the > modem to 56k, its currently a lowly 28.8k. Can anyone recommend a good > internal/external modem. I read that software/win modem is not supported > under linux. I'm a big fan of the cheap as Dynalink Ext 56k. They rock f

Re: [SLUG] E-Smith Question

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > What the heck is the web page to load to do the admin ?? > > http:///e-smith-administrator/ close, http:///e-smith-manager/ and yes, reading manuals are good. especially _before_ mailing lists. -- Damien -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mai

[SLUG] What is the best value modem for linux

Now that I've got the linux box to run, I'm thinking about upgrading the modem to 56k, its currently a lowly 28.8k. Can anyone recommend a good internal/external modem. I read that software/win modem is not supported under linux. Many thanks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - h

Re: [SLUG] Redundant Email systems

On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:07:23AM +1000, Marshall, Joshua wrote: > Does anyone know of a good method to make an email system redundant, so > that if one server goes down (power loss, network loss etc) the users > can still retrieve and send emails ? Send emails shouldn't be too much of a

Re: [SLUG] Let Me Know Soon

Jill Rowling wrote: > Maybe one type of filter could be to reject anything with excessive first > letter capitalisation, or all uppercase, ... > How about a type of "Eliza" program who looks through incoming mail and > decides its merit, rejecting rubbish (hehe) - a Linux acting like a person! M

[SLUG] Redundant Email systems

Does anyone know of a good method to make an email system redundant, so that if one server goes down (power loss, network loss etc) the users can still retrieve and send emails ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/s

[SLUG] ISP DNS woes

Dear SLUG, A few weeks ago I posted a question asking about my modem...If I could ping the IP address of the DNS at my ISP, but still not get domain name resolution (for anything), was the problem at my computer or at the ISP. /etc/resolv.conf was (and is) fine. Changing to another DNS (at UNSW)

RE: [SLUG] Let Me Know Soon

Maybe one type of filter could be to reject anything with excessive first letter capitalisation, or all uppercase, or excessive use of '!'? (Reminds me of the "merit system" discussed some months back) How about a type of "Eliza" program who looks through incoming mail and decides its merit, reje

[SLUG] Trustix Secure Linux

Has anybody tried this ? I'm downloading it at the moment, to give it a go as my new firewall, jeff was right e-smith is good, but it seems to get in the way for what i want. I would just go back to redhat or some such, but i figure if i'm going to reset the box up, i might as well try something

Re: [SLUG] Let Me Know Soon

Let the flames begin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: mirror, mirror was: [SLUG] New User with a few questions.

> > > > As a recent Linux newbie (and also a UNSW student), I have found it a > > delight to use mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au . It's really _really_ cool and they > > mirror a hell of a lot of Debian stuff. In fact, just a week ago, they > > started mirroring security.debian.org, which makes my apt-g

Re: [SLUG] Re: Distro for 20M Ram

Angus Lees wrote: > > \begin{Peter Rundle} > > I've been asked by my um...friend whether they could run Linux with > > a graphical web browser on an old Toshiba laptop (Pentium 90 with > > 20meg of ram). > > X will run fine. no need to skimp, just keep it simple. don't do a big > fancy 24bit col

Re: [SLUG] Home network project - Thank you all, system up and hummin

Re created ppp setup to my isp and once that was connected and my linux box can surf, presto my other machine now can use that service. Thanks again all -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Home network project

> Nothing certain. How did you establish the dialup? What sort of > modem? Can you ping teh Ip address you were assigned? Can you ping teh > IP of the gateway your traffic is meant to go through? > > - Doug was able to get ppp running through gui and presto my home network used the linux bo

[SLUG] Custom kernels on debian

I've compiled a custom kernel for my gateway machine, using the make-kpkg utility with --revision=hostname.1, as described in the make-kpkg docs. My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this: # Stable distribution deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://mirror

Re: [SLUG] Re: Distro for 20M Ram

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:32:16PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote: > \begin{Peter Rundle} > > I've been asked by my um...friend whether they could run Linux with > > a graphical web browser on an old Toshiba laptop (Pentium 90 with > > 20meg of ram). > > X will run fine. no need to skimp, just keep it

[SLUG] transparent ftp-proxying

Apologies for the cross post from another list, but thought some sluggers might be interested in this. Thanks to this guy and the guys at Suse we can do transparent proxying of ftp traffic. Even block allowed ftp connections. I have tried this software and it works quite well. I haven't tried the

[SLUG] Let Me Know Soon

I recieved This Link? http://3433193619/~flashtech22/flashforsite.swf (YOU MUST HAVE FLASH TO VIEW.. VERY COOL THOUGH) Could We Put Something Like This Together? INQUIRE ABOUT WHAT THIS IS AND LET ME KNOW PLEASE.. THANKS, JOHN -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.

Re: mirror, mirror was: [SLUG] New User with a few questions.

> As a recent Linux newbie (and also a UNSW student), I have found it a > delight to use mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au . It's really _really_ cool and they > mirror a hell of a lot of Debian stuff. In fact, just a week ago, they > started mirroring security.debian.org, which makes my apt-get go so much

Re: [SLUG] Re: Distro for 20M Ram

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:32:16PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote: > netscape always runs slow. it will run even slower. text browsers in > an xterm work fine. links (not lynx) supports mouse, etc if that > improves it any. Maybe check out some of those alternative browsers? Galeon/Opera and some Tcl/T

Re: [SLUG] E-Smith Question

> What the heck is the web page to load to do the admin ?? http:///e-smith-administrator/ Or... Something like that. It will be in the manual: > Also, Where are the general docs ? Or do you have to pay for those ? You can download the manual from e-smith.org (the developer's site). ARGH! T

Re: mirror, mirror was: [SLUG] New User with a few questions.

> On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 04:21:59PM +1000, Rodos wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Graeme Nichols wrote: > > > And then there were two (one in NSW), mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au also contains > a lot of stuff for Linux junkies. > > Regards, > Anand > As a recent Linux newbie (and also a UNSW student),

Re: [SLUG] IP Chains etc....

Further, where does ipchains come into this whole thing. It is in the subject heading, but you don't mention it anywhere. -- Howard. __ LANNet Computing Associates On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, theborg wrote: > Im hoping s

Re: [SLUG] IP Chains etc....

Firstly, check that the netmask on all the boxes is 255.255.255.0 Secondly, if the boxes arn't trying to go any where outside of the network then you have no need of a gateway, or is your gateway a 5th machine you haven't mentioned. Thirdly, be more specific about what can, or cannot, get to where

Re: [SLUG] ppp server setup

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Danny Yee wrote: > Can anyone point me at a recent "howto" for setting up a PPP server? Install mgetty and follow its documentation, in particular the section on AutoPPP which makes dialing in real, real easy. You just need a few config files to specify the IP address and so

[SLUG] IP Chains etc....

Im hoping someone can offer some enlightenment on this.. All the windows pc's on my lan can ping an address, resolve an ip - but get no reply... If i ping an ip address - i get a reply. I have 4 machines on my network, 2 windows boxes and 2 linux machines. The windows boxes are on 192.168.1.10 an

[SLUG] POP performance

I have a system running fetchmail, which it has been doing for a number of years, but during the last few months it seems to be grinding the system down. The ISP I'm collecting from is ZIP. The machine also hosts my httpd server, my smtp server, named and another http server. These have all been

RE: [SLUG] avp for linux

> What is AVP ? s'in the links.. but Anti viral Toolkit pro... An antiviral suite for pcs. Check out the webpage i spose... www.avp.com.au dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] networksolutions reply time

> I am in the process of changing the name server > details at the networksolutions site to point to my > Linux box. However, mailing back the confirmation form > does not result in a reply. Could anyone on the list > shed some light on this, does it take a while (this > has happened before)? y

Re: [SLUG] batch text editting

> Seems like you need to be generating your HTML files from > templates using some scripting - either Mason, Perl etc. is everyone going for overkill here ??? no-one mentioned server side includes later marty "I can't buy what I want because it's free. Can't be what they want because I'm me."

[SLUG] E-Smith Question

hi all, I am currently in the process of rebuilding one of my boxes to act as a gateway/proxy etc. I've been trying to use *BSD, but i've had enough of that, doesn;t want to work with my DSL connection. Then I read all of the rave reviews of esmith, and ihad made a copy of the new version a cou

Re: [SLUG] avp for linux

What is AVP ? Cheers Erich Erich Schulz PO Box 6028, Lake Munmorah, NSW 2259 Ph: (+61)0500 551 228 , Fax: (+612) 43583113 Mob: 0408 201 228 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] ppp server setup

> /usr/doc/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO dates to 1997, and I suspect things have > changed since then. Not really, it's all pretty much the same. You may have some luck looking through Linux Gazette, I remember seeing some step-by-step tutorials a while back. If you stick with the PPP-HOWTO though, you'll

Re: [SLUG] Home network project

Anyone please feel free to correct me: Comments and imporvememnts welcome, I think that I will put this up on my web page for reference for other people, this stuff gets asked regularly. For your simple network, trying to keep things simple, there are basically four things to concentrate on:

[SLUG] ppp server setup

Can anyone point me at a recent "howto" for setting up a PPP server? (I want to set up a Linux box at work so I can dial into it from home, and have a permament modem connection.) /usr/doc/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO dates to 1997, and I suspect things have changed since then. (And searching for stuff keeps

[SLUG] Re: Distro for 20M Ram

\begin{Peter Rundle} > I've been asked by my um...friend whether they could run Linux with > a graphical web browser on an old Toshiba laptop (Pentium 90 with > 20meg of ram). X will run fine. no need to skimp, just keep it simple. don't do a big fancy 24bit colour background. don't run a zillio

[SLUG] Re: Network Security Fest

\begin{chesty} > I'd be interested in hearing more about application proxy servers with > authentication, in particular I'd like to know more about proxying X > with authentication. random ways of doing this (off the top of my head): xhost - authentication by IP (not very secure) xauth - authen

[SLUG] Re: Diskless sparc w NFS root

\begin{Matthew Sanderson} > I'm trying to get a SPARCStation SLC working as a diskless x terminal. I'm > using ARP/RARP to give it its IP address and TFTP to serve it its kernel. consider using something like bootp/dhcp, since that lets you pass many more options to the kernel (and bootup scripts

[SLUG] Distro for 20M Ram

Sluggers, I've been asked by my um...friend whether they could run Linux with a graphical web browser on an old Toshiba laptop (Pentium 90 with 20meg of ram). My experience with X and Netscape suggests that it would be pretty slow with only 20M. Anyone got any suggestions/opinions. Alternative

Re: [SLUG] Firewalls, X, etc (was: Network Security Fest)

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, chesty wrote: > So far I've looked at TIS firewall toolkit, but its not ideal, out of the > box you have to use xhost to allow the firewall to connect to your X terminal, > telnet to the firewall, login to the firewall, start the X proxy, telnet to > the remote box, login

Re: [SLUG] avp for linux

Might have to look at this qmail plugin it has and yes I am a qmail user... yippie :P -Original Message- From: Dave Kempe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Slug@Slug. Org. Au <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, 23 October 2000 6:04 Subject: [SLUG] avp for linux >Hey sluggers, > > >This ain't co

[SLUG] avp for linux

Hey sluggers, This ain't commercial spam I don't work for AVP I just noticed AVP for linux 3.5 is available from www.avp.com.au I downloaded it and tried it and it at least has a resonable installer this time. The last one sucked. This one seems to need a valid license, i think you can get a d