doc question on private network IP allocation
by Paul Allen Newell
Hello to all:
A long time ago when I first struggled and figured out how to set up a
LAN network, I got some advice about how I should alloc the numbers. 1)
start static address at *.*.*.10, 2) put WAPs at *.*.*.245, and 3) for a
gateway of 192.168.1.1, assign your router that connects to the 3rd
party (Verizon) to be 192.168.2.2.
I have never really found documentation to support such, but my network
behaves nicely so I don't argue.
I am helping my niece set up her network for her apartment / roommates
and find that I don't want to give her the advice I was given as I can't
prove its worth. Plus, she and the roommates are all living on wireless
DCHP and I never dealt with that (translation is the one laptop I do
have I just let it do its thing and turn a blind eye).
They are all Windows-centric so I am trying to find best practice
regardless of opSys.
Can anyone point me to a website that gives good advice on how one
should alloc one's local ip addresses? I googled and seem to only turn
up differences in A, B, C networks or router to outside link info. Maybe
there isn't any advice on such, in which case I want to know so I can
tell her to "do her thing".
Thanks in advance,
Paul
12 years, 7 months
Re: imac on lan, printing to f14: network host '192.168.2.8' is busy, will retry in 30 seconds
by Jackson Byers
emilio wrote:
> It sounds like port 631 is closed in Fedora Firewall. Did you check that?
this was it!
I have now printed (twice) from the iMac to my f14 printer
Mystery:
I know i enabled the 'IPP server' on the f14 firewall a few days ago
via 'system-config-firewall'
Today 18 OCT I reckd firewall on f14 and saw 'IPP server' box _not_ ckd.
so i redid it via 'system-config-firewall'
and then immediately went back to imac and printing worked!!!!???
This has been such a battle that I don't fully trust this fix will stay.
But for now, consider it done.
thanks to Tim and Emilio!
Jack
12 years, 7 months
Restoring from a tarball
by Joe Zeff
Recently, my sister's Ubuntu box had a puzzling network problem: it
wouldn't accept any DNS numbers but could ping by IP. She didn't have a
backup, recent or otherwise, and there was no practical way to install
any. I created the directory /backup, and in that directory ran this
command:
sudo tar -cjf marcia.tar.bz2 /home/marcia
Then, I used ftp to transfer it to my laptop, as there's more room on it
than on my desktop.
This was a Good Thing! Upgrading from a LiveCD worked, but it wouldn't
boot. Nuke/pave/reinstall, ditto. After checking, the boot failure
message told my hardware guru that her hard drive's failed, and that
this might have been the root cause of the other issue. Now, of course,
we need to replace it, reinstall and restore from backup. Assuming that
the username hasn't changed and that I've put the backup in the same
place that I made it, what arguments to I give tar to make it put
everything back exactly where it was? I ask because I once got it wrong
and ended up with everything in a subdirectory instead of where it
belonged, and I'd rather Get It Right the first time.
12 years, 7 months
[OT] New Proxy in Town
by Manuel Escudero
Hi there,
Lately, I've been reading news about internet censorship
in the blogs I follow. That's a shame because I think access
to the information should be free and not regulated...
In the startup where I work, we've developed a webproxy
that can help people bypass the filters at school, work, country,
anywhere. It runs on top of Google App Engine and we recently
launched version 5.0 wich has the following features:
- New Design
- Browsing Suite
- More capacity to handle larger amounts of traffic
- Megaupload Premium Link Generator
- Built in Torrent Downloader
- Megavideo Bypasser
- New API server
Among a few others you might like, so in case you need it,
you are free to use it! Go ahead and visit:
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Thank You!
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12 years, 7 months
Thunderbird and Gnome Shell
by SternData
Does anyone have a good solution for seeing any on-screen new mail
notifications when Thunderbird is your default mail client?
I found an extension on github, but it doesn't seem to work.
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12 years, 7 months
Re: imac on lan, printing to f14: network host '192.168.2.8' is busy, will retry in 30 seconds
by Jackson Byers
Emilio Lopez emiliollbb wrote
> can you see your printing job in http://your-fedora-ip:631 ?? There
> are a tab where you can browse pending printing jobs.
'busy' jobs trying to be sent from the iMac are not seen in my f14.
error log seen on f14 is only 4 lines:
E [16/Oct/2011:08:42:18 -0700] Unable to open listen socket for
address [v1.::]:631 - Address family not supported by protocol.
E [16/Oct/2011:08:42:18 -0700] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate
"/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported
E [16/Oct/2011:13:44:51 -0700] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate
"/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported
E [18/Oct/2011:09:09:09 -0700] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate
"/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported
I don't know what this means
> you can try to print local from fedora,
> to discard printer configuration and focus in sharing printer issues.
On the iMac I have been trying to remove the f14 printer config on
faxprint pane,
thinking I could then redo it. But I can't get it to respond to the
"-" remove button.
Maybe you mean something else, "discard printer config" on fedora?
I haven't tried printing locally from fedora for a few days, but I
think that still works.
Also still working (at least a few days ago) is printing from the iMac
if I first reboot
my f14 to the older f14 version that came from preupgrade f12->f14
thanks for response
Jack
12 years, 7 months
[FSF] Stand up for your freedom to install free software
by Lucélio Gomes de Freitas
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We're looking at a world in which it could become impossible for the
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12 years, 7 months
Ext3 file count limits
by Shelby, James
Can anyone tell me what the actual limit is for an ext3 filesystem? I've done some google searching and according to the wiki it seems 32k directories and 32k files however I have seen that people have reported 3 million+ files which doesn't seem there is a real limit in the code.
I'm trying to find out what happens which you exceed that 32k as we previously had 200k files in multiple directories which on those drives we had a 70%+ failure rate. Those drives were Western Digital 2TB RE4 which seemed to have an excess high failure rate. After finding this limitation we migrated the data to XFS and in the past four months have not seen a single reallocated sector in the SMART data. I'm wondering if it is possible this could be related or if it was just a bad group of drives. Note that we had several drives warranty replaced and even those drives were failing within two months until the filesystem type change.
Thanks
James
12 years, 7 months
My "santa-list" for Fedora-14.. & is there a file-wash program?..
by Linda McLeod
I run Fedora-14, mostly for a pix editing hobby like some use electronic
card-solitaire to relax, & music, & writing in "focuswriter"... I'm not
on the Net at home.. The demons destroy my PC's OS twice a week.. Me
thinks it's a "hungry falling libido thing" for them...
I note a few little glitchy areas in this OS, which seem to "slap &
destroy" sensitive writers rolls.. I can't use Fedora, or any OS to
write when I'm one, two, or three, "rungs-up in intellect for topic
rolls".. The glitches irritate me out of my fleeting extreme focuses
I wish those thht-glitches weren't so in my face, like "a bad smell"...
I've posted in forums about them.. All I get is flamers "pissing in my
face" and people who really don't have a tiny clue even what my
questions are about...
My "santa-list" for Fedora-14:
There should be user controls to config everything about the desktop
screensaver slide-show.. Time-period pix's change.. sizes on screen..
maybe a "custom sized screen on screen".. customizable background
colors.. slide intensities.. Hey! maybe even an OS systems link into
gimp via screensaver..?
What would it take to have screensaver married to gimp..?
What can you do to screensaver slide show, or to a slide show, to make
it more interesting and enjoyable and fun, even funny?.. Is there a way
to make the PC project a slide show on the adjacent wall..? What would
it take?..
What would it take to have the PC project a slide show in the middle of
the room, without screen in the air..?
Controls to delete a pix from the OS should an unwanted screensaver pix
come up on screen.. and even edit it via a link to Gimp's wonderful
pix-laboratory...
User tools to config desktop: simple r-click tool options to save
programs that are up on desktop, to be up on boot...
Fedora should have a base install of programs to show all Web activity
in & out, in real-time, with strong controls to block any and all
gorilla and demon activity...
I click up "home file" twice.. One window runs "pix file thumbs".. the
other file window runs "home file".. to drop edited pix into various in
progress files and/or various theme files...
The problem is that home file pops-up in the middle of the screen when I
wants it to be snug at top & right screen..
And second file drops right over top the first, thht!.. not at the
bottom right an inch from the bottom screen, showing only the top row of
files..
"autospell" resets upon close.. I wishes it would stay clicked.. as I
wish "keep aligned" would stay clicked...
I don't connect my personal PC to the Web.. When I do, "government and
corporate brain-suckers are into it like bluebottle-flies on
fresh-poop", "tossing my room like it's their gilded-toilet", desperate
to steal the new technologies I say I have, after I offered to build it
for them for free..
So, given this computer isn't pest connected, I don't usually need the
login password, mostly because I remove the hd, and take it, when I
leave the house.. There should be a timed control for the user to
disable login-password, so the computer goes from "press the button", to
"OS loaded".. because when I'm on a roll I needs physical-realm things
to run themselves, so I can hold the roll intact while the computer gets
started.. It ain't fun loosing a cosmical-roll because the computer was
off, and requires an easy babysitter to get it on.. User should have
option to disable boot hangups, by making "autoboot" an option... Maybe
even add a timer that turns the PC on in a schedule..?
Ailurus should be in desktop r-click... Ailurus and Gimp should tackle
some of these requests...
I wish the mouse was a lot faster.. I'm running a logitech marble mouse
for pix editing.. Over the years conditioned my flip of the marble to
land the cursor on any chosen common button.. but the cursor is way too
slow at fastest mouse settings.. makes me feel like the world is built
for "dead-turtles" and "tater-heads" and "bad-liquid people".. If
artisans want different atmosphere they gotta die, or make it better, in
the war...
I really wish the cursor was a half inch cutlass.. metallic maroon...
I downloaded a sword-cursor once in W98.. It installed with 75
spy-trojans.. I had to format C, and lost my sword, cuz I didn't know
how to clean the crap that download set in the OS for their unscrupulous
project... Their kind makes the Internet be dirdy and stinky, like a
sewer...
DBAN should be part and option of every Linux distro CD...
With a click of the mouse, user should be able to make an ISO of the
customized/personalized OS as it is for to install fully updated OS
without a Net connection, and without any grief...
I’m finding too much “ram slowdown” while I edit pix...
Seems a few of these Web-pix have nasty snoop-bugs in them, which attach
themselves to running programs for zombie-class unkind preditorial
purposes against innocent targets..?
Is there such a program as a “file scrubber”..? ..sort of like how "cat
owners must sift cat-poo out of a cat’s sand-toilet, in being an
extension of a cat's toilet”...
Can there be a “clean-room”.. ”a mud-room" program in-front of a word
edit file..? like “a cap”.. or “roof”.. or “splash”...
In my new concept OS, in this PC worn as a skin-graft, it be full of
running internal auto-cleaners... I’d have built it long ago, but this
culture fears new stuff that makes them think too much, cuz thinking
makes their heads hurt.. They beat me up, so I gave up on‘em, and dumped
the all the science... They can go do it with their own ultra-genius
brains and minds...
I find the odd downloaded-pix slows down the PC a lot at times.. I'm
supposing they have bugs in them.. Is there a Linux program that cleans
a downloaded pix-file 100%..?
Is Clam sufficient, or does Clam need some serious customizing to clean
spyware-buggy pix-files..?
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12 years, 7 months
Re: imac on lan, printing to f14: network host '192.168.2.8' is busy, will retry in 30 seconds
by Jackson Byers
Tim responded
>On the CUPS server computer, the firewall must be opened to allow
>network printing service. This allows UDP and TCP traffic over port
>631, over your network interface. Fedora has a preset option for this
>in its firewall control panel.
On my f14 I ran 'system-config-firewall' and checked the IPP box,
Network Printing Server (IPP)
as I responded to emilio, I am now stuck on 'paused printing'.
I guess this is better than 'busy'............
>On any of the client computers, the firewall must be opened to allow
>network printing clients. This allows UDP traffic over port 631.
>Fedora has a preset option for this in its firewall control panel.
uhh, my iMac is the client trying to print to a printer on the f14 server.
So my iMac doesnt have network printing clients, the iMac is the client.
Are you saying that in this case
my iMac needs 'firewall opened to allow network printing clients'?
>The CUPS clients shouldn't need any configuring of their CUPS service,
>and attempting to do so can cause problems. They should simply find the
>available printers on the network, when the above three conditions are
>set up.
My previous rececent experience [on my older version of
f14(preupgrade from f12)]
says I _do_ need to do some configuring of CUPS on the iMac:
(shown to me by Ted Roche on this list):
need on iMac for 'cupsctl BrowseRemoteProtocols=cups';
without that, the iMac then couldn't even see the f14 printer.
thanks for your response
Jack
12 years, 7 months
