by Thanks to the people who e-mailed me.
A short summary: ignore HJ's docs. They explicitly say that lib4.4 needs
pl10 or higher; but you dont need pl10 or higher to use lib4.4.1.
I installed lib 4.4.1 under pl9, then installed gcc 2.4.5 and recompiled
the kernel.
Now moving along:
I thought NET-2 was supposed to *fix* Linux networking?
I got all the net-2 binaries, etc; read the FAQ, and installed it.
I was pleased..briefly..and then the networking began to crumble.
(I am hardly a newbie at setting up TCP/IP stuff).
BTW, dont E-mail if you want me to see this. Net-2 broke our e-mail
(works randomly now, if at all).
I can ifconfig ok.
routing: net-2 seems to drop routes, or something. I have to add
route add default gw 137.82.52.254, otherwise nothing gets out of our
subnet. I do that in the rc files, but periodically routing just
disapears. ie, I can no longer ping different sites.
I am very suspicious of net-2 routing. Now what does this mean:
(output of netstat -r)
fs0.ee.ubc.ca router UGHDM 0 2 eth0
etc.
now netstat -nr
137.82.52.1 137.82.52.254 UGHDM 0 2 eth0
Why is this following the default route when the host (fs0) is on the
same subnet as I am (137.82.52.117, netmask 255.255.255.0) Is the output
of netstat wrong?
Mail:
the net-2 package didnt have mail in it, so I tried to change inetd.conf
like what I had under net-1. I use smail to handle mail; invoked as
smtpd.
from inetd.conf
smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/tcpd /usr/bin/smtpd
When I first start up, mail seems to work. LAter, it dies. I cant
even do
telnet 127.0.0.1 25 and get the smtp daemon.
After a while (we get mail all the time) I have a dozen smptpd process
running, and netstat shows all the hosts trying to send mail. here
is the netstat output, showing weird mail. Is this an smtpd problem?)
Active Internet connections
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (State)
tcp 1 0 localhost:1178 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:finger FIN_WAIT1
tcp 1 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:smtp ucsd.edu:3882 SYN_RECV
tcp 1 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:smtp mother.ludd.luth.:1479 SYN_RECV
tcp 1 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:smtp ucsd.edu:3941 SYN_RECV
tcp 1 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:smtp joker.cs.hut.fi:4849 SYN_RECV
tcp 8 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:smtp localhost:1158 CLOSE_WAIT
tcp 2 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:smtp mother.ludd.luth.:1723 CLOSE_WAIT
tcp 2 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:smtp mother.ludd.luth.:1897 CLOSE_WAIT
tcp 2 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:smtp ucsd.edu:4391 CLOSE_WAIT
tcp 0 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:smtp mother.ludd.luth.:2010 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:smtp mother.ludd.luth.:2027 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:smtp ucsd.edu:4533 ESTABLISHED
tcp 2 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:smtp srlns1.srl.ford.c:4950 CLOSE_WAIT
tcp 0 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:1176 iskut.ucs.ubc.ca:nntp ESTABLISHED
tcp 1 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:telnet annex2.net.ubc.c:14900 SYN_RECV
tcp 218 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:telnet annex2.net.ubc.c:10000 CLOSE_WAIT
tcp 39 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:telnet localhost:1156 CLOSE_WAIT
tcp 32 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:telnet localhost:1157 CLOSE_WAIT
tcp 46 0 localhost:telnet localhost:1184 CLOSE_WAIT
tcp 4 0 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:finger localhost:1178 CLOSE_WAIT
tcp 1 0 localhost:1156 rflab.ee.ubc.ca:telnet FIN_WAIT1
Also, incoming finger, telnet, shell, finger etc. all seem to work randomly.
(I cant believe net-1 was actually more reliable here)
Outgoing telnet, rlogin, ftp and NNTP etc. seem to work (unless the routing
disappears; then I have to re-add the route). On a positive note,
ftp seems much faster. Is there something wrong with inetd???
It's not a matter of it not working at all; but incoming telnets
finger, ftp etc. work one moment and not at the next.
I followed the FAQ, and used the provided net-010 config files to
try to get the network working. But the FAQ is wrong in places:
eg
route add 137.82.52.0 ( ie $NETWORK ) (the same if i do loopback)
and I get
SIOCADDRT: Network unreachable.
This is probably just a mistake in the docs.
thanks in advance. I have a few weeks of the NET channel activists
mailings...maybe there is something in there...
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John Paul Morrison |
University of British Columbia, Canada | Hey hey!! Ho ho!!
Electrical Engineering | Tax & spend liberals
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