Linux+ certification
by Paul Rigor
Hi,
I'm sorry (really sorry) b/c this is off topic for this list. But I'd like
to know which Linux+ cert programs you all would recommend in the Los
Angeles region? I know experience is the best; but certification seems to
validate the experience with more $.
Thanks,
Paul
20 years
A big big big thank you.
by Derek P. Moore
It's been a week or more since the change, I just wanna give an extra big "Thank
You!" to the fewls at Red Hat for the libc-client package and the reinclusion
of php-imap. My servers thank you as well.
You guys rock... And roll!
Derek
20 years
Re: Who is to write /etc/modprobe.conf?
by Pete Zaitcev
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 01:19:29 -0400
Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev(a)redhat.com) said:
> > On FC2T2, I ran system-soundcard-config, and it did not play a test sound.
> > It turned out that it runs kudzu, and once kudzu is done, it expects that
> > necessary modules would autoload, which was not the case, because the
> > /etc/modprobe.conf did not have the necessary entries:
> >
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
> > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
>
> Won't work. You can't have an alias to an alias with the new module
> tools.
My bad. The sound-slot-0 alias is entirely unnecessary.
> This is cleaned up some in current rawhide modutils/kudzu/s-c-soundcard.
Woops, my bad again. I updated to the rawhide (see below for versions),
killed soundcard from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf, reran kudzu and everything
works now.
[zaitcev@pentabug zaitcev]$ rpm -q kudzu modutils system-config-soundcard
kudzu-1.1.57-1
modutils-2.4.26-15
system-config-soundcard-1.2.8-1
[zaitcev@pentabug zaitcev]$ cat /etc/modprobe.conf
include /etc/modprobe.conf.dist
alias eth0 3c59x
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd
alias usb-controller2 ehci-hcd
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
[zaitcev@pentabug zaitcev]$
OK, so with the ALSA out of the way I can turn back to USB.
Actually, one more question. The system-config-soundcard depends on sox,
because it uses play(1). Would it be worth the trouble to redo it to use
aplay(1) and depend on alsa-utils instead?
Thanks,
-- Pete
20 years
rawhide report: 20040421 changes
by Build System
New package mysql-jdbc
JDBC driver for MySQL
Updated Packages:
Canna-3.7p1-6
-------------
* Sun Mar 21 2004 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de>
- apps owned by root instead of bin
* Wed Mar 17 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 3.7p1-5
- Canna-3.7p1-fix-duplicated-strings.patch: applied a backport patch from CVS.
when the characters like 'bbb...' is deleted, the preedit strings is
duplicated. (#117140)
* Tue Mar 02 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 3.7p1-4.1
- rebuilt
GConf2-2.6.0-4
--------------
* Wed Apr 14 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.0-4
- #110724 BR gtk2-devel gettext
- #106283 add versioned ORBit2 minimum
- #112863 own /etc/gconf/2/
- really kill *.la
* Mon Apr 05 2004 Mark McLoughlin <markmc(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.0-3
- Remove the dont-dump-schema-default patch
* Thu Apr 01 2004 Mark McLoughlin <markmc(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.0-2
- Backport some fixes from HEAD for lockdown/deployment type stuff
anaconda-9.92-8
---------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Anaconda team <bugzilla(a)redhat.com>
- built new version from CVS
* Tue Feb 24 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- buildrequire libselinux-devel
* Thu Nov 06 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- require booty (#109272)
control-center-2.6.1-1
----------------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1:2.6.1-1
- update to 2.6.1 to fix xorg brokenness
coreutils-5.2.1-6
-----------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 5.2.1-6
- Fix 'ls -Z' displaying users/groups if stat() failed (bug #121292).
devhelp-0.9-2
-------------
* Thu Apr 15 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.9-2
- Apply patch from George Karabin <gkarabin(a)pobox.com> to
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH (closes bug 120220).
elilo-3.4-3
-----------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 3.4-3
- rebuild against fixed gnu-efi (#120080)
fam-2.6.10-9
------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 2.6.10-9
- Add patch to have client code return an error immediately
if SELinux is enabled
glibc-2.3.3-20
--------------
* Thu Mar 25 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.3-20
- update from CVS
- change NPTL PTHREAD_MUTEX_ADAPTIVE_NP mutexes to spin on SMP
- strtol speed optimization
- don't try to use certainly unimplemented syscalls on ppc64
- kill -debug subpackage, move the libs to glibc-debuginfo{,-common}
into /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/ directory
- fix c_stubs with gcc 3.4
- move all the up to 3 builds into %build scriptlet and
leave only installation in the %install scriptlet
* Mon Mar 22 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.3-19
- update from CVS
- affinity API changes
* Thu Mar 18 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.3-18
- update from CVS
- fix ia64 iopl (#118591)
- add support for /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
- fix x86-64 LD_DEBUG=statistics
- fix hwcap handling when using ld.so.cache (#118518)
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.44
--------------------------
* Mon Mar 15 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 2.4-8.44
- update wireless.h
* Tue Dec 09 2003 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com> 2.4-8.38
- remove a lot of kernel-only crud
* Tue Dec 02 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 2.4-8.37
- add BLKGETSIZE64
gnome-applets-2.6.0-3
---------------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Mark McLoughlin <markmc(a)redhat.com> 1:2.6.0-3
- Build battstat on ppc too
gnu-efi-3.0a-3
--------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 3.0a-3
- add patch to coalesce some relocations (#120080, <erikj(a)sgi.com>)
kde-i18n-3.2.2-2
----------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.2-2
- fix kdelibs conflicts with kde-i18n, bug #121129
libselinux-1.11.1-1
-------------------
* Thu Apr 15 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.11-4
- Sync with NSA
* Thu Apr 15 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.11-3
- Remove requires glibc>2.3.4
* Wed Apr 14 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.11-2
- Fix selinuxenabled man page.
libxfce4mcs-4.0.5-2
-------------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 4.0.5-2
- Remove spurious warning at startup, thanks to Olivier Fourdan <fourdan(a)xfce.org>
libxklavier-1.02-1
------------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.02-1
- update to 1.02 with real fixes for xorg
libxml2-2.6.8-1
---------------
* Tue Mar 23 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>
- upstream release 2.6.8 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
* Thu Jan 02 2003 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>
- integrated drv_libxml2 xml.sax driver from Stéphane Bidoul
- provides the new XmlTextReader interfaces based on C# XML APIs
* Wed Oct 23 2002 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>
- revamped the spec file, cleaned up some rpm building problems
libxslt-1.1.5-1
---------------
* Tue Mar 23 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>
- upstream release 1.1.5 see http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html
* Sun Nov 02 2003 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>
- cleanup, removal of the deprecated breakpoint library and
automated libxml2 dependancy level in the generated spec file.
* Wed Oct 23 2002 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>
- revamped the spec file, cleaned up some rpm building problems
lvm2-2.00.15-1.1
----------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 2.00.15-1.1
- handle disabled SELinux correctly, so that LVMs can be detected in a
non-SELinux context
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)redhat.com> - 2.00.15-1
- Fix non-root build with current version of 'install'.
mrtg-2.10.5-3
-------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 2.10.5-3
- Allow/Deny by address in conf.d/mrtg.conf (#113089)
openldap-2.1.29-1
-----------------
* Wed Apr 14 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 2.1.29-1
- rebuild
* Tue Apr 06 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 2.1.29-0
- update to 2.1.29 (stable 20040329)
* Mon Mar 29 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com>
- don't build servers with --with-kpasswd, that option hasn't been recognized
since 2.1.23
openobex-1.0.0-5
----------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)redhat.com> 1.0.0-5
- import for for #121271 from openobex CVS tree
* Tue Mar 02 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
* Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
openoffice.org-1.1.1-3
----------------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> 1.1.1-3
- Fix silly specfile issue preventing PPC builds (Dave Woodhouse, #121182)
- Add a slew of dictionaries, hyphenators, and thesauruses (#108720)
pan-0.14.2-6
------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 1:0.14.2-6
- disable pan-0.14.2-gcc34.patch since it seems to break things badly
(Nathan Grennan,121103)
* Wed Apr 14 2004 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 1:0.14.2-5
- add pan-desktop-rh-119909.patch and use upstream desktop file
(hayastan132(a)hotmail.com)
- add pan-0.14.2-gmime-crash-120007.patch to fix crashing
(confushion(a)comcast.net)
- add pan-0.14.2-gcc34.patch to fix building with newer gcc (Jeff Law)
* Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
policy-1.11.2-13
----------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 1.11.2-13
- More LVM stuff from Russell
- Ignore ramfs access from e.g. nautilus
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 1.11.2-12
- More LVM-related fixes
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.11.2-11
- Allow NFS and mount to play together.
- Fix lvm
redhat-artwork-0.96-1
---------------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> 0.96-1
- Add a few icons, including the visiting folder icon used in nautilus
rhpl-0.143-1
------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 0.143-1
- Do not write out XkbRules line to config file, as it is unnecessary to hard
code the rules file, which has a built in default which should always
work. (#120858)
rhythmbox-0.8.1-1
-----------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> - 0.8.0-2
- Update to 0.8.1
rpmdb-fedora-1.92-0.20040421
----------------------------
strace-4.5.2-1.1
----------------
* Tue Mar 02 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
* Mon Mar 01 2004 Roland McGrath <roland(a)redhat.com> 4.5.2-1
- new upstream version, sched_* calls (#116990), show core flag (#112117)
* Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
subversion-1.0.1-1
------------------
* Fri Mar 12 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 1.0.1-1
- update to 1.0.1; cvs2svn no longer included
* Fri Mar 12 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 1.0.0-3
- add -perl subpackage for Perl bindings (steve(a)silug.org)
- include mod_authz_svn INSTALL file
* Tue Mar 02 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 1.0.0-2.1
- rebuilt
system-config-display-1.0.13-3
------------------------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 1.0.13-3
- Do not write out XkbRules line to config file, as it is unnecessary to hard
code the rules file, which has a built in default which should always
work. (#120858)
system-config-users-1.2.12-5
----------------------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 1.2.12-5
- call self.ready() if no is clicked (bug #121364)
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 1.2.12-4
- apply patch from bug #72058 to localize pw last changed time
udev-024-5
----------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 024-5
- fixed permission for /dev/tty (FC2)
w3m-0.5-3
---------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 0.5-3
- build with --with-termlib=ncurses to fix segfault. (#120240)
xfce-mcs-plugins-4.0.5-2
------------------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 4.0.5-2
- Fix bug in default icon theme selection, thanks to Olivier Fourdan <fourdan(a)xfce.org>
- Add support for icon theme, Change defaults for fedora, #119647, thanks to Olivier Fourdan <fourdan(a)xfce.org>
xfdesktop-4.0.5-2
-----------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 4.0.5-2
- Change defaults for fedora, thanks to Olivier Fourdan <fourdan(a)xfce.org>
xfwm4-4.0.5-2
-------------
* Tue Apr 20 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 4.0.5-2
- Add a patch for stacking request with sibling, thanks to Olivier Fourdan <fourdan(a)xfce.org>
- Change defaults for fedora, thanks to Olivier Fourdan <fourdan(a)xfce.org>
xmlsec1-1.2.4-2.1
-----------------
* Tue Mar 02 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
* Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
* Wed Feb 11 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> 1.2.4-1
- updated with upstream release from Aleksey
ypserv-2.12.1-2
---------------
* Fri Apr 02 2004 Steve Dickson <SteveD(a)RedHat.com>
- Change ypMakefile to create services.byservicename
maps correctly
* Tue Mar 02 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
* Tue Feb 24 2004 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 2.12.1-1
- Updated to latest upstream version.
20 years
Re: Network Connects Slowly In Kernel 2.6 Using IPv6
by "Nils O. Selåsdal"
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 15:45, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 April 2004 21:16, Nils O. Selåsdal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 15:00, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> > > be obnoxiously slow, both DNS lookups and simple "telnet
> > > www.google.com 80" tests.
> >
> > With ipv6 enabled, the libc resolver will afaik try to
> > resolve hostnames as ipv6 addresses first. For alot of reasons
> > that might take a long time..
> > [...]
> > So perhaps there should be(and maybe there is..) a way to say
> > try ipv4 first in /etc/resolv.conf ?
>
> This is interesting. However, the first hurdle is something deeper than
> DNS because simple connects using "telnet x.x.x.x 80" takes longer
> with IPv6 enabled. Editing /etc/modprobe.conf did the trick for me.
Could perhaps strace show where/what calls are taking so long ?
And wether one doesn't get fooled by application bug(e.g. someone
calling gethostbyname with "192.168.0.2" or similar)
--
Nils Olav Selåsdal
System Engineer
w w w . u t e l s y s t e m s . c o m
20 years
Re: Network Connects Slowly In Kernel 2.6 Using IPv6
by "Nils O. Selåsdal"
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 15:00, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> The following is just a "word of warning" about IPv6 causing initial
> connect slowness in Kernel 2.6. Target audience: packagers of kernel
> 2.6 in Fedora Core 2 (maybe provide a work around or configurable shut
> off mechanism) or any kernel hackers or someone with additional
> familiarity. I'm writing this purely out of my personal experience and
> hope that it might be helpful for those on this list.
>
> Without disabling IPv6 in /etc/modprobe.conf with "alias net-pf-10 off",
> in certain environments that evidently do not support "it"--"it" being
> quite a nebulous definition since I am far from understanding any piece
> of IPv6--initial network connections will be obnoxiously slow, both DNS
> lookups and simple "telnet www.google.com 80" tests.
With ipv6 enabled, the libc resolver will afaik try to
resolve hostnames as ipv6 addresses first. For alot of reasons
that might take a long time..
(one example is me having a local dns server used for internal hosts on
a network not always on the internet, and havinf "forward" hosts
in named.conf... ipv6 dns lookups takes a damn long time to timeout when
not connected to the internet.)
So perhaps there should be(and maybe there is..) a way to say
try ipv4 first in /etc/resolv.conf ?
20 years
Network Connects Slowly In Kernel 2.6 Using IPv6
by Jeff Pitman
Hi all:
The following is just a "word of warning" about IPv6 causing initial
connect slowness in Kernel 2.6. Target audience: packagers of kernel
2.6 in Fedora Core 2 (maybe provide a work around or configurable shut
off mechanism) or any kernel hackers or someone with additional
familiarity. I'm writing this purely out of my personal experience and
hope that it might be helpful for those on this list.
Without disabling IPv6 in /etc/modprobe.conf with "alias net-pf-10 off",
in certain environments that evidently do not support "it"--"it" being
quite a nebulous definition since I am far from understanding any piece
of IPv6--initial network connections will be obnoxiously slow, both DNS
lookups and simple "telnet www.google.com 80" tests.
The following threads provide some additional background information
using Mandrake 10+ with Kernel 2.6:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=151050...
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=158683
And fedora test list (the second gives netstat, interface, route
information):
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-March/msg00350.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-March/msg00349.html
Some websites that normally take 3 to 4 seconds to download, take up to
20 seconds under 2.6 with IPv6 enabled. Disabling it causes dramatic
speed ups.
The intriguing thing is that this problem doesn't occur in all network
topologies. On my ADSL at home using Fedora Core 1 as a gateway, I
have no problems at all with IPv6 running. However, in my office (same
machine cause it's a laptop) it's slower than dog going through an
Intel NetStructure VPN box. I could see Redhat, OSDL, et al. having a
difficult time replicating and finding this since they most likely have
a more homogenous network (vendor?) topology: Linux based servers,
gateways, etc.
My current system is an IBM T30 laptop running the following kernels
under Redhat 9 (sorry i'm not using fc2-test outside of chroot
environments yet, please forgive me..):
Speed Rating (using feels-good(tm) benchmark)
kernel-2.4.20-28.9 (distro) nominal
kernel-2.4.24-1.ll.rh90.ccrma nominal
kernel-2.6.2-1.156 (arjan) slow with IPv6; nominal without
kernel-2.4.20-30.9 (dag) nominal
kernel-2.6.5-1.332 (arjan) slow only on DNS with IPv6; nominal without
(had to use links because my mouse and /udev stuff doesn't work yet)
I will be installing fc2-test on another partition quite soon so I can
test again with my laptop under the latest environment using the tools
mentioned in the second thread on the fedora-test list. Sorry if I
piss anyone off for mentioning running on an old distribution and/or if
this off-topic. I hope this email will be useful to those who've yet
seen the issue and might see it pop up again.
take care,
--
-jeff
PS. Disclaimer: I'm just joining the list. There's a bunch of lists,
and I've tried to do a preliminary search
(http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aredhat.com%20kernel%202.6%20network...)
to see if this has been discussed; I apologize for any redundancy if
one exists.
20 years
Speaking of bugs
by Leonard den Ottolander
Hi everyone,
Today is Fedora bug day again. Come to #fedora-bugs on freenode IRC and
help with the triage effort and stamp out some bugs.
In the last weeks (or actually months) I've been working on a tool to
assist me in my triage efforts. I call it bughunt. It's a front end for
bugzilla which lets you categorize bugs for a particular component. This
might be helpful in getting some grip on the multitude of bugs that are
still in bugzilla.
Since I am quite sure I stamped out (most of) the cross site scripting
and SQL injection bugs I finally opened up bughunt to the public. Please
have a look at http://www.ottolander.nl/bughunt/ and see if this tool
can be helpful to you. Red Hat developers are specifically invited to
see if this tool can be of any use to them in their struggle with
bugzilla.
I have done some sorting on the bugs for some of the components to give
you an impression of how this tool can be used. These components are
rpm, mc and gnome-panel. If you want to test the interface please use a
different component, and if you want to do some real work on a component
I would appreciate it if you could let me know this on #fedora-bugs.
Another way is to just put your name in the package comment field, so
people can see you are doing "real work" on the particular package. Of
course people can agree on working on a component together but that
would need agreement on which categories to define and use.
Please have a look and let me know what you think of this tool.
Leonard.
--
mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research
20 years
Network wizard issues
by Michael A. Peters
Normally I connect via PPPoE - but my dsl company (sbc/yahoo) has had
major problems last couple of days - gives me IP address and I can ping
around, but it doesn't load pages completely.
No problem - I have a 56k dialup account just for these such occasions.
So I used the wizard to add it as a connection. Took down the pretty
much useless PPPoE and brough up the standard PPP.
Got me an IP address, but I couldn't ping anywhere.
I could get it to work by turning off the PPPoE at boot and turning on
the dialup modem at boot - but then, when looking at the network control
panel - it shows both connections as being down.
I won't attach it because not everyone wants to see it - but you can
view it at
See http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/fc2_network.png
ppp0 is the dsl configuration
eth2 is the onboard nvidia nic, which is not is use
eth1 is a tulip pci nic, which is what is attached to the dsl modem
eth0 is the onboard 3com nic (a7n8x deluxe), which is connected to my
lan
ppp1 is a us robotics pci hardware modem.
The panel shows both ppp connections inactive - yet the us robotics
dialup modem is in fact active and working, only ifconfig reports it as
ppp0 and not ppp1
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:216.127.178.141 P-t-P:216.127.176.3
Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1514 Metric:1
RX packets:7293 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6383 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:7006290 (6.6 Mb) TX bytes:415417 (405.6 Kb)
Anyway - there seems to a problem with how the network control panel
gets its information. And it also is not as easy to change which
interface is used as the default route when you need to.
While I generally despise Windows, I must confess they make it easier to
deal with when you need to bring down your interface that is the default
route and bring up another one that is to become the default route.
I'm not sure what components need the bug reports filed - but if the
second ppp interface is listed as ppp1 in the network configuration
control panel, then it should come up as ppp1 even if ppp0 isn't active.
I suspect that is why it currently shows it as inactive even though it
is active (hence you getting this e-mail)
I also think that when a default route interface is brought down, that
it should be easier for the OS to bring up a new connection as the
default route.
If I am "doing it wrong" from the gui, then how to do it right needs to
be better defined in the network control panels/wizards (which btw need
to be consolidated into a single tool imho)
If there is any clarification I need to do, please request.
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Cheap Linux CD's - http://mpeters.us/linux/
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