[vox-tech] Peters Kernal Update and a Few Questions
Marc Hasbrouck
vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Mon, 3 Dec 2001 13:02:38 -0800 (PST)
I'm currenty using a Linksys cable/DSL firewall router
device. It's available in both a 1 LAN port and 4 LAN
port flavor. Programming is by a small web server that
answers only to the LAN side in the default
configuration. SMC also has a similar device with 4
LAN ports and can support a regular modem as well as a
cable or DSL unit. Both will do MAC address cloning
and NAT. They also can run a DHCP server. I've used
both brands and they seem to work fine. I still run
firewall software on windows and lock down my Linux
box, just in case the hardware firewall is not good
enough.
You will need a windows system to do BIOS updates on
either device, as the update program is windows based.
WINE might work here, I haven't tried that.
Good luck,
Marc
--- Roland Minden <rminden@Unilab.com> wrote:
> As it happens I do not have an internet connection
> anymore. I was on the
> AT&T Cable network and they were dropped by
> Excite@home. When I get a
> connection again I will begin to work on it then. I
> am looking at using my
> wife's connection to the internet using a router and
> a hub. I will need to
> wire up my home though, but that should not be do
> bad. Dorie (my wife) has
> Pac Bell ADSL. Any suggestions on a router? I am
> looking towards using a
> wireless connection as an alternative. I am however
> very concerned about
> security and lets face it WAP is not real security.
> Thanks for the advice.
> BTW I was not able to download the Kernal before I
> lost connectivity :-( I
> will have to wait on that also.
>
> Roland Minden
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Newmiller
> [mailto:jdnewmil@dcn.davis.ca.us]
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 5:17 PM
> To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Peters Kernal Update and a
> Few Questions
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
> > begin: Roland Minden <rminden@Unilab.com> quote
> [...]
> > > I am having some trouble with my internet
> connection at home. I called
> for
> > > support and waited on hold for about 25 minutes
> (no joke I timed it).
> When I
> > > got hold of AT&T they asked what Operating
> system I had and as soon as I
> > > said Linux they took this whole we can't help
> you with anything
> attitude.
> > > They also said I should be using DHCP. So I
> tried to set it up to use
> DHCP
> > > and it would not work. I get connected using the
> static IP, but I am not
> > > able to get my usual connection speed. My
> connection speeds have been
> really
> > > crappy for about 3 weeks. I have a static IP and
> have checked it out as
> far
> > > as settings and it looks good. I thought it
> maybe be my cat5 cable so I
> > > replaced it and it made little difference. At
> work I use Windows NT with
> HP
> > > OpenView to trouble shoot our network
> connections. Is there anything
> like it
> > > I can use with Linux?
> >
> > troubleshoot exactly what? what sorts of things
> do they give info on?
> i'd
> > eat my hat if you couldn't do the same thing on
> linux.
>
> Be careful, Pete. What you "can do" in Linux
> sometimes requires that
> someone create the software to do so, which at best
> can take time.
> This is particularly true in newer technologies like
> ATM cards.
> Fortunately, DHCP _is_ supported, but it is a fairly
> complicated piece of
> software that has had a history of signficant
> updates so troubleshooting
> requires that you be familiar with "normal"
> networking under Linux as well
> as that history.
>
> > > I can ping successfully to yahoo.com. I can send
> and
> > > receive email (though very slowly). I am
> starting to babble now. Let me
> know
> > > what information to send or any advice on how to
> deal with AT&T. I
> thought
> > > about telling them I have Winblows, but I would
> rather not have to do
> that.
> >
> > i'm sure it can be done, but i know literally
> nothing about DHCP. i
> don't
> > even know what it stands for, although i can guess
> that D=dynamic and
> > P=protocol. :-) i'm sure there are people here
> who use DHCP. anyone
> > help here?
>
> The key for DHCP on Linux is dhclient, which
> broadcasts requests (possibly
> with identifying information such as an assigned
> host name) and listens
> for answers containing a wide variety of bits... ip
> address, mask, dns
> server addresses, wins servers, whatever. The newer
> versions of dhclient
> handle more bits, putting them in the right files
> according to the
> configuration of the client.
>
> While I have used it briefly on other people's
> setups, I don't have
> detailed experience with the mechanics of
> troubleshooting it because I was
> assigned a static IP by DCN. I guess you can read
> http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/ and find out more,
> but a grasp of the
> fundamentals of network troubleshooting will be
> required if the
> out-of-the-box scripts don't work for you. Watch
> the error messages, look
> in the usual network configuration files after
> dhclient gets an assignment
> to see what the result was, use ping, ifconfig,
> route -n, and so forth to
> see what it did to the kernel.
>
>
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