Linux Networking

cooperation between connection tracking and traffic shaping in 2.4
To define cooperation between iptables and traffic shaping in 2.6, I was advises to use MARK and CONNMARK in 2.6. But 2.4 doesn't seem to have CONNMARK. What is advisable method of applyting qos rule to subtraffic defined by netfilter ? Trying to solve this, I added to the sip conntrack module the code that cr... 7 Nov 2006 16:27

Multilink PPP Problem
I am trying to use pppd to do multilink over several hdlc interfaces. For my test case, I have two identical units connected back to back. The link establishes correctly and will pass data. If the master link is reset for any reason, the master fails to reestablish a connection. For a test case, I manually di... 14 Nov 2006 15:55

interface rename ?
Hi, How can I rename interface in gentoo ? I have many ppp interfaces (pppoe server) and I want to rename them (e.g. ppp0 -> ppp0-hans or ppp0-10.1.1.10) Thanks for any help. Regards, ... 29 Oct 2006 02:51

Question on public WIFI access points
I'm in a hotel that provides WIFI Internet access. They have a number of access points which run unencrypted. My initial attempts to connect to it through Linux were unsuccessful. I was able to scan the access points through iwlist but DHCP couldn't get an IP address. I then booted into XP and used a Broadcom utili... 31 Oct 2006 02:14

Am I in the wrong newsgroup?
I am having a bit of trouble with mounting XP shares on my FC5 machine. Apparently smbfs support has been dropped in favor of cifs and I cannot get this to work to save my life. I have made two posts in this newsgroup asking for help, all ignored. Am I in the wrong newsgroup and if so, could someone please upda... 23 Oct 2006 14:14

mount.cifs - Can someone give me a working example please?
I want to mount some of my XP shares on my Fedora Core 5 box on my home LAN and used to be able to do this with "mount -t smbfs..." and now that does not work anymore. I see that cifs is used instead but I am having a very hard time getting that to work. My old syntax does not work anymore and I am not sure... 24 Oct 2006 18:03

cannot find -lpt_linux_x86_r when building openh323
Hello, I am trying to build openh323 and getting the following error. I searched for the library lpt_linux_x86_r , but its not on the linux box. Please let me know importance of this library and can I disable linking with this library..I truly appreciate your help. /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/../... 12 Oct 2006 15:00

How to blank EEPROM of RTL8139
Hi , I got EEPROM read and write routine.I am able to read all the content of EEPROM(93C46). Also able to write new MAC id in the EEPROM. Now i got blank EEPROM in the RTL8139, when power up and Read any register of RTL8139, I am getting 0xff back.Also EEPROM read and write are also failing. my quest... 12 Oct 2006 13:25

Packet routing by source IP
Hi, I have two internet connections and a lan on which I run a server. I want this server to be accessible from both internet connections so I came up with the following setup: ISP connection 1 goes into a linux router and the connection 2 goes into a trendnet hardware router. They both redirect port 10000 to ... 12 Oct 2006 11:50

Linux driver for GPRS/EDGE (GSM) modem module (Siemens MC75)?
Sent 11 May 2006 08:13:07 -0700: Should it work in linux without any special driver? If not, where else to turn to for the linux driver of this modem module (Siemens MC75)? You might get more response from a Linux ng, but no guarantee, some of them are pretty fiery! ... 6 Oct 2006 20:17