Thanks for all your replies to "Groupware for the Home". I did read them but was switching over to ADSL (lucky me) at the time and the 'switch over' really hasn't finished yet as you'll understand from my plight below!
I have gone over to ADSL with Pipex. The Speedtouch 330 USB modem they sent was a nightmare and I tried and tried to get it to work with Linux but to no avail (tried all the drivers and even started installing new distro's!!).
Finally I had enough and purchased a modem router - ethernet (http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X2...).
I had it up and running in 10 minutes and it is a very good, cheap, little gizmo. However now I am using Mandrake 9.2 and I am having connection problems. The modem holds the connection but Mandrake seems to lose the connection to the modem and in order to get things running again I have to enter the command /etc/init.d/network restart - as root. So much so that this command is now a shortcut on my desktop.
Can anyone help here please? I went from Suse 8.2 to Fedora to Suse 9.0 to Slackware 9.0 to Mandrake 9.2 over a four day period and I don't think I can stand another re-install.
In the customer reviews for the product link above it mentions a firmware upgrade - done it - no difference. I don't think there's any point in e-mailing Pipex as the modem keeps the connection. Could this be a problem with DrakFirewall??
Help please.
Rgds,
Martin
Martin John Collins wrote:
Thanks for all your replies to "Groupware for the Home". I did read them but was switching over to ADSL (lucky me) at the time and the 'switch over' really hasn't finished yet as you'll understand from my plight below!
I have gone over to ADSL with Pipex. The Speedtouch 330 USB modem they sent was a nightmare and I tried and tried to get it to work with Linux but to no avail (tried all the drivers and even started installing new distro's!!).
Finally I had enough and purchased a modem router - ethernet
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Just FYI...
We do this stuff a lot for customers, and we *never* bother with the vendor supplied USB things. They seem to be "optimised" for 'doze, and a PITA.
We use an MRI adsl router/bridge which is about 55 quid and have no problems, certainly none such as you are displaying. We always put a linux firewall between the router and the LAN, and they stay up forever.
Cheers, Laurie.
On 3/11/2004, "Martin John Collins" sickofthesea@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
I had it up and running in 10 minutes and it is a very good, cheap, little gizmo. However now I am using Mandrake 9.2 and I am having connection problems. The modem holds the connection but Mandrake seems to lose the connection to the modem and in order to get things running again I have to enter the command /etc/init.d/network restart - as root. So much so that this command is now a shortcut on my desktop.
Can anyone help here please? I went from Suse 8.2 to Fedora to Suse 9.0 to Slackware 9.0 to Mandrake 9.2 over a four day period and I don't think I can stand another re-install.
When I had my ADSL link installed, I went straight for the router (supplied by my upstream ISP - Zen Internet - they give you a choice) because it was a straight ethernet connection, rather than anything requiring drivers ;-)
As to your problem with lost connections, I had exactly the same problem and traced it to the router's DHCP software with the lease running out and not being re-generated. I assigned a static IP to my firewall to connect to the router's 10.0.0.x subnet and now all is good, with my internal network running on 192.168.x.x behind the firewall.
Matt
On Friday 12 Mar 2004 11:41 am, Matt Parker wrote:
When I had my ADSL link installed, I went straight for the router (supplied by my upstream ISP - Zen Internet - they give you a choice) because it was a straight ethernet connection, rather than anything requiring drivers ;-)
As to your problem with lost connections, I had exactly the same problem and traced it to the router's DHCP software with the lease running out and not being re-generated. I assigned a static IP to my firewall to connect to the router's 10.0.0.x subnet and now all is good, with my internal network running on 192.168.x.x behind the firewall.
Many thanks but I'm a bit lost now. I am very able with most things but networking is a language I don't think I'll ever understand!
Someone told me that I should enable the DMZ function in the router setup with an unused IP address (10.0.0.4). I did initially but disabled this last night and since then it's been a lot more stable only going off once tonight after I installed some software with the Mandrake package manager.
However, I think the real problem is something deeper. Whatever this means but I think the arp cache is overflowing as my log file /var/log/messages is chock full of 'Neighbour Table Overflow' messages as below;
Mar 12 22:20:39 localhost kernel: NET: 33118 messages suppressed. Mar 12 22:20:39 localhost kernel: Neighbour table overflow. Mar 12 22:20:44 localhost kernel: NET: 32743 messages suppressed. Mar 12 22:20:44 localhost kernel: Neighbour table overflow.
(Note my ethernet card - eth0 - uses a 'tulip' chipset)
and dmesg also produces the above and messages as follows;
Shorewall:newnotsyn:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0b:2b:0b:dd:8a:00:09:f3:01:be:57:08:00 SRC=66.102.9.99 DST=10.0.0.10 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=240 ID=21749 PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=33354 WINDOW=9300 RES=0x00 RST URGP=0
which some web forums would suggest I am being hacked by a clever hacker who is pretending to be Google??
Oh well it's reasonably stable now so I think I'll just be thankful for that and keep my fngers crossed. Thanks for the help though.
Brgds,
Martin
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