ac_dispatcher

I love useing it. If you have an old computer around you can put it to use. No hard drive used. The Coyote page http://www.coyotelinux.com/ The non complete NIC list http://www.dalantech.com/ubbthreads/showfl...sb=5&o=&fpart=1 Coyote FAQ http://rzero.com/coyote/faq.html#advanced Now you can go out and spend 100-200 dollars and buy a good router. With this you use an old computer. It is very customizable. Works great. All you need is a floppy and 2 NICs. You get control it from any browser. Just bring up http://coyote:8180 Here is a screen shot

Well I was doing some work on my firewall (named coyote). It is a Pentium75 with 16mb of ram. No Hard rive just a floppy. (http://www.coyotelinux.com). Back to my point. I turned on some TCP logging. Check this out: May 23 22:00:17 coyote klogd: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=XX.74.77.103 DST=XXX.23.87.188 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=119 ID=27759 PROTO=ICMP TYPE=8 CODE=0 ID=768 SEQ=28974 May 23 22:03:02 coyote klogd: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=XX.23.87.90 DST=XXX.23.87.188 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=62 ID=11993 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1801 DPT=2745 WINDOW=58944 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 May 23 22:03:05 coyote klogd: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=XX.23.87.90 DST=XXX.23.87.188 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=62 ID=12078 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1801 DPT=2745 WINDOW=58944 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 May 23 22:03:08 coyote klogd: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=XX.23.107.46 DST=XXX.23.87.188 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=119 ID=53919 PROTO=ICMP TYPE=8 CODE=0 ID=768 SEQ=32271 May 23 22:03:11 coyote klogd: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=XX.23.87.90 DST=XXX.23.87.188 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=62 ID=12399 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1801 DPT=2745 WINDOW=58944 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 May 23 22:03:30 coyote klogd: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=XX.23.107.86 DST=XXX.23.87.188 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=119 ID=65455 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4649 DPT=2745 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 May 23 22:03:33 coyote klogd: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=XX.23.107.86 DST=XXX.23.87.188 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=119 ID=869 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4655 DPT=6129 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 May 23 22:03:33 coyote klogd: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=XX.23.107.86 DST=XXX.23.87.188 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=119 ID=874 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4649 DPT=2745 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 May 23 22:03:35 coyote klogd: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=XX.23.87.188 DST=XXX.23.87.188 LEN=485 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=111 ID=40632 PROTO=UDP SPT=666 DPT=1026 LEN=465 May 23 22:03:35 coyote klogd: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=XX.23.87.188 DST=XXX.23.87.188 LEN=485 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=111 ID=40633 PROTO=UDP SPT=666 DPT=135 LEN=465 May 23 22:03:39 coyote klogd: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=XX.23.107.86 DST=XXX.23.87.188 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=119 ID=2312 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4655 DPT=6129 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 May 23 22:03:39 coyote klogd: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=XX.23.107.86 DST=XXX.23.87.188 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=119 ID=2314 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4649 DPT=2745 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 May 23 22:03:39 coyote klogd: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=XX.23.107.86 DST=XXX.23.87.188 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=119 ID=2316 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4654 DPT=3127 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 May 23 22:03:45 coyote klogd: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=XX.23.87.90 DST=XXX.23.87.188 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=62 ID=14118 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2512 DPT=2745 WINDOW=58944 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 May 23 22:03:48 coyote klogd: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=XX.23.87.90 DST=XXX.23.87.188 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=62 ID=14223 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2512 DPT=2745 WINDOW=58944 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 May 23 22:03:54 coyote klogd: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=XX.23.87.90 DST=XXX.23.87.188 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=62 ID=14513 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2512 DPT=2745 WINDOW=58944 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 May 23 22:04:10 coyote klogd: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=XX.23.78.95 DST=XXX.23.87.188 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=117 ID=7488 PROTO=UDP SPT=1745 DPT=137 LEN=58 OK its a lot of BLA BLA BLA. But notice this DPT=2745 <<<< Thats my Firewall getting hit by the beagle virus Bagle is mass-mailing email that besides using your address book, and other information on your computer to email copies of itself too, opens a backdoor on port 2745 which allows a hacker to upload a file and execute it automatically. Bagle also attempts to contact a number of web sites informing them of the infection. TCP port 2745 should be blocked by your firewall. Notice - DPT=6129 <<<< Used by the Dameware remote administration software. There is a vulnerability within older versions of Dameware which can allow for unauthorized login and hence unauthorized use of Dameware for remote administration of a computer. Dameware was installed by some viruses for the purpose of remote administration of the infected system. Last one - DPT=3127 <<<< Used by the myDoom/Novarg virus as a backdoor port. myDoom has been called the fastest spreading email virus yet recorded and attempted to DOS www.sco.com and www.microsoft.com. myDoom also installs a backdoor that listens on TCP port 3127 allowing a hacker to execute code remotely. TCP port 3127 traffic should be blocked by your firewall. All that in four minutes!! If you ever meet anyone who does not have a firewall (and Windows) SLAP'UM Stick with Linux --- Watch yourself out there [moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman]

If you havnet seen it on Slashdot. Fedora can break a partition table on a dual boot system. http://slashdot.org/articles/04/05/23/1448...tid=110&tid=187

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Try smb4k. It works better the LinNeighborhood for me.

A long time ago I posted a link to the plugger testing grounds. At that site you could test just about every plugin you have for your browser. Well they updated the site http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger/test.html At the bottom right they link to 2 other testing sites Linspire (finally something useful from them :P ) http://www.linspire.com/file_types/filetypes.php And AOL but for some reason the AOL link stopped working. Oh well may come back up. They had a few different types of movie files. Give your favorite browser a test B)

Call your DSL company and try to get in contact with the switching station. I was averaging about 70-80k downloads for about 2 years. When it dropped to 40k for about 2 months I called to find the problem. Here is what we did: First he told me to run a brand new line from the outside box to my router (computer). Disconnect everything else and call back via cell phone. When I called back he kept raising my bandwith until it toped off. It was downloading at 180K a second So then I would reconnect one line at a time in my house and rerun the line test (www.dslreports.com). When I hit my kitchen phone it dropped to 40k a sec. I found the main problem. Ran a new line to the kitchen and I now average 165k a sec. So my advise. Check your phone lines. Also How old is the line from your box to the pole? If its old it sould somehow "break" thus need to be replaced.

Hey bvc his first post and you already got his head spinning :lol: Welcome to Linux :P

BBX, Glad to see you turning to the light First your processor (300mhz) will do but it will be slow. I run a AMD K6/3 400mhz. Second you are going to need ram. Probably no less than 128mb or ram. 256mb if able. What you may end up having to do is replace or add a newer cdrom. Installing without a bootable cdrom is possible but not easy. I can'nt help you there. So for probably less than 100 bucks you can get a few more years out of your computer.

Not trying to get off subject again but. You may need to just simply stuff for a while. I am no expert but I can get around a linux box and I still use Point2Play over winex. Its just to simple to use. Freeloading or not, how much is your time worth? Some things you may want to spend a great deal of time to learn. Others you may want to spend a little and make it easy. How do you want it? For some 5 bucks is a lot of money. In the US maybe its a pack of cig's (or a gallon of gas). I pay 5 bucks a month for Point2play (winex). and its works great. No command line needed. BTW I also use it for a lot of other Window$ programs. It handles a lot of stuff wine cant.

I have a HP ze5155 Laptop. Yea getting acpi can be tricky. Try a few things. Open a konsole type: $su [enter password if needed] #kedit & Now when kedit opens up hit the file>open and open up your /etc/lilo.conf In the mandrake entry you will see a append="......." if you have an acpi entry edit it, if you dont enter: acpi=ht Now after your done and if it does not work retry it with: acpi=on nolapic So you may need to do this twice. In 9.2 I had to use "acpi=on nolapic" - sorry on Gentoo now. After you are done save the file and close out kedit. Now back in the konsole type: #/sbin/lilo -v If you get any errors go back and make sure the /etc/lilo.conf was edited correctly. Sorry I havent tried MDK10 yet. But in PClinuxOS I had to use acpi=ht to make it work. Additionallly you way need to make sure acpi is installed.Type #urpmi acpi Hope it helps Edit: Sorry if it seems a bit noobish. I see you tried SuSE. The acpi support is a bit better with SuSE.

Well there was some giu portage stuff a long time ago. Most dont work anymore http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Portage I finally got porthole to work. I always liked kportage but I cant get it to compile anymore porthole works. http://porthole.sourceforge.net/ Porthole never worked right until I went to the above link and downloaded the ebuild: Download This extract it and overwrite the current :/usr/portage/app-portage/porthole with the download. then #emerge porthole You may have to #emerge /usr/portage/app-portage/porthole/porthole-0.3.ebuild to install it. FYI - I dont emerge form porthole or any other gui portage prog. I use it to search and read up on the ebuilds. I always emerge from CLI. Mos gui portage apps are real outdated. Edit: Sorry Im not sure if Nvidia works. I think so. I have my ATI Mobility M6 LY compiled into the kernel. :P Edit #2: I got a little better performace with Xorg. FPS went from about 580 to 630. The reason I switched is because Xfree is just about dead. Gentoo no longer will have updates to it.

Before I get too flamed for the above... I use OpenOffice.org for everything. I dont have Window$ installed on my Laptop. Somtimes OOo doesnt like to open word file just right. So I will open them in MS word2000 and convert them to another format like word97 or .rtf.

As I dawn my flame vest If you have to have it just use MS Office97 in Linux via wine. http://frankscorner.org/modules.php?op=mod...artid=97&page=1

With most (including Mandy) dropping Xfree, a fork of it was created and called X.org. Or xorg-x11-6.7.0. Just some little changes here and there. Kinda weird changing your /etc/X11/xorg.conf not /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Here is two Forum pages on it: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=1...der=asc&start=0 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=158911 Here is how I switched to Xorg #rc-update del xdm default reboot #emerge -C xfree #emerge xorg-x11 #emerge corefonts freefonts sharefonts Edit (nano) /etc/X11/fs/config and add: /usr/share/fonts/corefonts, /usr/share/fonts/freefont #opengl-update xorg-x11 Made a sym link: /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11 to /usr/lib/opengl/xfree After that you need to watch your emerges. If at any time it wants to emerge xfree you will need to inject it. #emerge --inject x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r5 Want to go real bleeding edge? go to a pure udev system. http://webpages.charter.net/decibelshelp/L...rimer.html#UDEV I wrote my own udev rule for my RF wireless mouse. So my /etc/X11/xorg.conf (XF86Config) reads: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "RFmouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/rodent" :P Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "CorePointer" EndSection With udev you can identify any usb device and create a special sym link in /dev. Say you have two different usb sticks and you want one to always point to /mnt/stick1 and the other to /mnt/stick2. You can if you creat your own udev rule. and then change your /etc/fstab to point to your new sym links in /dev. In the case above I added the following to my :/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules #RF Mouse BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="U+P RF Mouse Receiver", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="rodent" so every time I plug in my wireless mouse - /dev/rodent will appear. B)

The only way I have ever had any luck setting up SAMBA was with webmin. Install webmin: #urpmi webmin Start it up: #/etc/init.d/webmin start Open your browser to https://localhost:10000 sometimes its http://localhost:10000 Depending if you have encription activated. Navigate to the Sever tab and then select Windows SAMBA Share Manager. There is even a button at the bottom to restart SAMBA. Try that.

Hey SoulSe, I just got my Laptop back from the fixers. It had a "fever" when the fans quit. I reinstalled Gentoo from scratch ~x86. SOLID AS A ROCK. No problems what so ever. I love Gentoo. But I could have never learned enough to use it without Mandy :D I decided to try a .deb Distro on my other computer. Man MEPIS rocks also!. I never new that Debian distros are like Gentoo. What I mean is once its installed on can just upgrade as nessassary. Did you use Xfree or Xorg?

Got an old 486 with 12mb of ram? I use Coyote Linux http://www.coyotelinux.com Its my Firewall / Router / DCHP Server I access it via a web browser. 73 day uptime now .....

I bet not so in the distant future you will only get a "free" copy if its from bittorrent. And pay for a ftp download.

Dont forget to open your firewall ports http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=13316 Everyone has a firewall - Right?

I downloaded the new knoppix. Some of you may know that I haven't gotten into the Debian style Distro yet. Well that is now gone. This Distro is fantastic. I mean tex makes a good cd but in my humble option this takes the cake I have an old AMD400 mhz puter with a ISA CMI8330 sound card built in. Until knoopix only 1 distro could automatically find and install it (SuSE). I was so pleased with the disk I installed it to my hard drive. It works great. apt is already set up. The /etc/sources.list has good repositories in their already. Installed to HD #apt-get update #apt-get upgrade Its an old AMD400 with 320mb of ram. I have found that live cd distros work the best (performance wise). I installed SuSE 9.0 pro then stopped a lot of the processes but it was still slower than knoopix. Never know I may be hooked on Debian now

I bought a HP ze5185 a little over a year ago. What I did was go to the store (Best Buy) found the one I wanted. Went home did a google search on it. I found two web pages on my puter. So I knew the problems I would have. Besides the unfortunate fight with a glass on wine the Laptop has done nicely :D

Im sorry my Laptop died again (another 4 months at best buy repair). My other computer runs SUSE 9.0. Can anyone else help? Maybe post (copy) the file to this board and I may be able to help you. Edit: added point. Your resolv.conf will survive a reboot. no problem there.

I had problems with MCC and network setup. Try to set it up manually: # ifconfig eth0 ${IP_ADDR} broadcast ${BROADCAST} netmask ${NETMASK} up then # route add default gw ${GATEWAY} Replace the ${ } with your settings. May also want to post what comes out when you type #ifconfig (as root) also check your /etc/resolv.conf In a static environment you must Identify your DNS manually. Id check there first. /etc/resolv.conf nameserver ${NAMESERVER1} nameserver ${NAMESERVER2} replace your DNS in ${ } Easiest way to find out if its a DNS problem: type: $ ping -c 3 www.yahoo.com then type $ ping -c 3 216.109.118.79 If the second one works but the first doesn't, you need to set your DNS.

I just bought my forth Linux book on Sunday (April 25 my birthday). I know their is a lot of stuff free on the web but I just wanted some good reference books. I now have Linux Server Hacks <---great book Linux Power Tools Linux Pocket Guide Essential System Admin Pocket Reference Inspired by VeeDubb and I have decided to try a weekly/bi-weekly "AC's stupid tricks". A sort of newbie guide to some common things they may see. (maybe a little advanced to). This week is Combining Commands (Linux Pocket Guide pg 26) A lot of times you will come across some instructions that have lets say a "&&" in it. What does that mean/do? Here ya go - Their are three basic ways you'll see commands combined: $ command1 ; command2 ; command3 or $ command1 && command2 && command3 <----- I have found this most common or $ command1 || command2 || command3 Explanation: $ command1 ; command2 ; command3 The semi colon ";" is used to separate the commands. This command will invoke several commands in sequence. $ command1 && command2 && command3 Now we have used a "&&" instead. This will also invoke a set of commands in sequence. The difference? It will stop execution if any command fails. $ command1 || command2 || command3 Last is the "||" used to separate them. This will run a sequence of commands , stopping execution as soon as one succeeds. Well I did not set out to tell you how you use these commands - thats for you to learn :P but hopefully you will know the use of ; or && or || in combining commands. Maybe some of the kind board folk can give some common examples? Edit: Not sure if this would be a "Tip" or "Trick". Not really sure where this post may belong. Mods / Admins feel free to move it. Thanks guys.