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I know I sound a little "techni-colour" dreamy, but trust me - if you do it right, you won't have to upgrade to 2-3x longer. At least make sure if you get a new board/cpu, they handle a fsb of 400. Then, like I said, you just buy new RAM in a year or two. The rest was just because, you know, mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Check your speed/duplex settings and be sure they match that of what ever you are plugged into... Can someone give a better way of how to do that other than ifconfig? You plugged into a switch, hub, router, or a high speed modem directly?

Yeah, I picked my name based on the fact that I don't change ;) Thanks, btw. And yeah I know ARP, and RARP, and GRE, OSPF, RIP, IP, RPC, IPX, IPSec, etc etc etc my only issue was not understanding how a server could have a dhcp address...

First off, Welcome! I see this is your only post... You're using dialup, but your gateway is over the ethernet LAN?? This could be the problem. The gateway will be through the ppp connection to the isp, not through the LAN's ethernet. Find out what your ISP's default gateway is and put that in instead... The Gateway setting means that is where apps like browsers will look for the internet. (Hence NOT your LAN) As for your speed/duplex settings for the NIC (network interface card), the CLI (command line interface) command ifconfig should do it, but you'll need a CLI pro to tell you the arg's, I tried reading the man/info pages last night and fhew!! it's tough with no examples. [static@hal static]$ ifconfig eth0 IP: 192.168.1.100 blah blah blah speed: 100 duplex: full [static@hal static]$ man ifconfig <or> info ifconfig

I can recommend telling walmart to go to hell... They are the retailer equivalent to M$. Asus boards work. Plus there's a new one with a 400MHz fsb, 8x AGP, integrated digital 5.1 surround sound, but not sure if the sound works in linux yet. Go AMD Athalon 3200+ (400MHz fsb). I'm running intel, but go AMD. DDR400Mhz RAM/fsb baby! As I said, get the matching 400MHz RAM for the board and CPU. Or use your RAM, which will bottleneck the FSB to 266 until you're ready to just replace the RAM, then your MB+CPU is ready to go lightspeed. If you can't afford a dvd burner, LG burners are good and affordable. But sony has a DVD burner that also writes cds... nVidia 128MB DDR Video card TI4600 NOT MX GeForce 4 if you're in the market... SCSI 15000rpm HDD with a SCSI controller. We're talkin' FAST. I personally don't need more than like 60GB, but if you have cash two of these in RAID!!! mmmmm, scsi raid.

Yeah - mostly GUI. If you aren't affraid of the CLI, you probably don't need to be told what to use instead of winamp ;)

Not sure what you mean... the DMZ is eth1. The world won't have trouble connecting if the IP's different? Who updates the internet's dns servers? I don't really want to use dhcp for the DMZ, I'd rather use static IPs. But do those static IPs have to be local private ones or public usable internet ones? Am I correct in assuming that I could give the eth1 DMZ interface a private IP like 10.10.10.1, the server an IP on the same subnet (private) 10.10.10.2 and use port forwarding eg. 64.12.123.7 (eth2, by dhcp - internet) sees a request on port 23 for ftp sends it to 10.10.10.2 port 23 And you say don't put the server in the same subnet, eh? OK, so my LAN will use the default gateway 192.168.1.1 to find the 10.10.10.0 segment, correct? Thanks, this is getting clearer if I'm right.

HOLY CRAP. I found squid, but it'll take me 6 years to read the docs! I thought it was like "proxy server: on; authentication: sure" DONE. Nope. I was up reading the friggin' CONFIG file alone for HOURS. Ouch. OK. I'll revise the question. Anyone have a config for using squid to speed up HTTP on a LAN connected via one 56K connection? (caching)

hummmm, OK... weird. I thought it was the burning process that needed it; but reading? Great! I'll try it tonight. Thanks

ab2ms, tyme thanks. Can't believe I forgot to mention those :roll:

I'd like to be able to copy from my dvd drive to my cd-rw, but I haven't found a burning app in linux that lets me add my pioneer dvd 16x as the reader drive. To copy I have to read with my burner first. This is of course a waste of having a 48x burn speed. Anyone have any secrets for adding a drive to k3b? (one of the sweetest burning apps for linux) Note: I do see it when I run k3b setup (and it asks for my root passwd and sets up fstab..) but then just isn't there as a choice at burn time :?

I'm also glad you got 9.1 (it kills all previous versions)

GOOD! Good. See? I didn't even know about it! Keep 'em coming, I'll update the list.

Careful with that. Next time try to remember what you did for two great reasons: To help yourself in the future, and to help newbies with similar problems! I wish I could remember how I got DVD and audacity working!

Uh yeah, sorry - I wrote that hastily without any forethought about how to order my points :?

But I thought you can't use dhcp for the DMZ 'cause it'll make it hard for clients to find it...

No prob! That's what this place is for. Just a note: If you went into the windows control panel, opened up the services in Computer Management or whatever, and stopped a service; windows' friendly "Shutting Down..." dialogbox would never tell you squat. Then someday something would crash and you'd NEVER know why it happened. This is why we love linux. Nothing is hidden. Hence "Open"! 8)

your prefix ftp:// is specifying the protocol to use, with the suffix a.b.c.d (the standard way of implying an IP) as the address for where to use the protocol. Also - ever notice sometimes there is a colon followed by a number? eg. http://192.168.1.101:80 The colon eighty indicated what port to use. See, all the standard protocols use default ports - but you could set up your web server to use port 999 if you want, but people would need to connect to http://your.page.com:999 instead. A note on DNS Domain name servers tie an IP (a.b.c.d) with real words, eg. your.page.com. IP addresses are all the computer understands, so if you type in ftp.192.168.1.101 you're indicating you'd like to ask the DNS server for an IP for the word "ftp.192.168.1.101". This is very similar to where people start to get lost in programming - the numeric # 5 is not the same as the string "5". 5 is 0101 to the computer, whereas the string "5" is like 100101010111 lets say. Understanding binary makes all of this clear. 8 4 2 1 = Numbers for binary conversion 0 1 0 1 = 5 in decimal (because 4+1 = add up wherever there is a one) This applies to networking as well. IP's are truly 00010110.01011100.01100010.00000111 but whatever that is in decimal so that its easier for us to understand. So "ftp.123.123.23" is a string, whereas 192.168.1.101 looks more like that long binary crap. Hope that helps. 8)

Have you tried the stuff that jano tried?

So it's gotta be the firewall rules on the gateway somehow... Is your gateway a proxy server too?

Forgive me (I can tell you're good) but let's try some basic network troubleshooting for future newbies having similar problems: Layer 1: The cables/connections are good? Layer 2: The switch can see your MAC address? Layer 3: IP You can't ping Yahoo? Usually the only reason you wouldn't be able to ping is if the firewall wouldn't let you (idealy) or if your machine you're trying to ping from has the wrong subnet mask. But you can get the name resolved? Sounds like your default gateway is correct, as are your dns settings. Try doing a "traceroute www.yahoo.com" assuming "nslookup www.yahoo.com" returns yahoo's IP. [root@pc root]#nslookup www.yahoo.com Server: your.router.com Address: 192.168.0.1 Name: www.yahoo.com Address: 64.64.64.64 [root@pc root]#traceroute 64.64.64.64 Tracing route to www.yahoo.com [64.64.64.64] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms your.router.com [192.168.0.1] 2 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms some.router.com [193.512.999.3] 3 16 ms 15 ms 31 ms yahoo.router.com [64.64.1.1] 4 16 ms 47 ms 31 ms www.yahoo.com [64.64.64.64] Trace complete. Any luck? OK - on to the upper layers. Your network is running <shudder> WINS servers, huh? Plus you have Authentication servers? Ouch, the bigger the network, the more to go through... So, any login fails, eh? Sounds like the authentication server doesn't like that BOX, not the logins themselves. Is it set to accept that client? Now with jano's problem: he has finally got it to log in, but still can't access the internet. My best guess is either trouble with the Authorization (different from authentication) server, or a firewall, not liking this particular box. Jano - I'm thinking real hard, buddy. I'm asking around the office, too. I'll get back here with any ideas. My friend says check duplex settings. Having both the switch AND nic on autonegotiate can cause problems. Make real sure the switch and mdk-box agree on speed/duplex settings. Disclaimer: The IP's used in this post are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to an IP, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Yes. If you aren't using NFS (as in you aren't mounting partitions from other *nix machines on yours over the network) then one of the services, portmapper, is not needed. If you or your PC/firewall realized that having portmapper running is a security risk when you aren't using NFS and so turned it off, you'd get this message. I now get this since I killed portmapper. You would also get it if you have something that stops the NFS service itself while the PC's on instead of just not starting it in the first place. If you aren't using NFS to mount remote partitions, don't worry about this message! 8)

This is sort of a networking question, but seeing as it has to do with my firewall, I put it here (mods (OF WHICH I AM NOT :( ) feel free to move this if need be) [*]SMC-Ultra ISA pnp 10Mbit (eth2 {DHCP client} - Internet) [*]Intel EPro 100 (eth0 {192.168.1.1} - LAN) [*] " " (eth1 {192.168.1.10}- DMZ) Do I give eth1 an internal IP (192.168.1.0) or an IP on the same segment as the IP eth2 will receive via DHCP from the ISP? Note I won't know what segment it'll be! How will the servers know where to go? They'll need IP's that are static and internet like, no? I have never run a server outside a secure, internal network!! (RCMP network specialist :roll: ) Or is the DMZ eth1 interface transparent to the servers and the traffic just gets routed through my firewall (and out eth2)? On a side note (I'd like to know the above anyway) - should I use (do you recommend) NAT and port forwarding instead of giving the servers real IP's? Thanks again for helping me clear this up! Frustrated in Ottawa

Can someone tell me how I could configure my 9.1 installation as a proxy/DHCP server? I just received an HP Pavillion from my grandfather and popped three network cards in it and installed 9.1 with Guarddog and Guidedog ('cause this puppy will be be gateway/firewall/router/proxy - providing DHCP to the NATed LAN). So far - I just need to know how to configure it as a proxy/DHCP server and how to write a configuration script for the clients to reference (you know - Automatic Proxy Configuration Script). The script is less important because I could manually enter the proxy server info into the clients anyway... Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Information P2-300, 96mbRAM, 8GB hda with /boot (hda1 - 50MB) [*]/ (hda5 - 600MB) [*]/usr (hda6 - 2.5GB) [*]/var (hda7 - 3.5GB) [*]/home (hda8 - ~1.3GB) [*]412MB hdd (swap) [*]SMC-Ultra ISA pnp 10Mbit (eth2 {DHCP client} - Internet) [*]Intel EPro 100 (eth0 {192.168.1.1} - LAN) [*] " " (eth1 {192.168.1.10}- DMZ) I'll have a server or two with static IP's in the DMZ, one static IP on the LAN as a print server. The rest in the LAN will be DCHP clients.

I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with *nix based machines all day long... I debated writing 85 or 90 :D My 10 percent lies in simple things I haven't gotten around to researching, like burning a cd from the command line (I know, I know...) and X related stuff like switching the default DM/WM started by "startx". I'm not asking! Just stating I haven't had the time to teach myself 8)