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VPN options
by Keith Lofstrom 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

I am planning on running a Virtual Private Network from my Fedora firewall out to a UML virtual colo (running RH9) at another site. That site will be the place I present services to the world; httpd, ssh, sftp, smtp. This is to comply with the "no servers" and dynamic ip restrictions on my Comcast connection to the net; if my firewall always drives an outbound connection to the colocation site, I am not worried about changes of ip address, and I am not opening any inbound ports. There are a number of options for the VPN - the most attractive are cipe ( http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html ) and FreeSwan ( http://www.freeswan.org/ ), though I am told that one can do all this through an ssh tunnel. I would rather have simple and secure than super-duper; I have plenty of bandwidth, and will send outbound http and smtp from the firewall, so the main bandwidth user will be incoming spam/b/b/b/b mail. Anyone have some experiences to share about setting up VPN? Is there anything about either cipe or FreeSwan that is likely to break with FC1 or FC2? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom keithl(a)ieee.org Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs

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Problems with 3COM 3C900Combo
by Christian Moller 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Hi all Fedora users, I have just joined this list. I am running the latest Fedora but I can't get my 3C900Combo networking card to work. I can see that the card is installed but no IP-address is asigned to it and I can't set it. So I think that there is a bug in that driver. Any other user out there who have a solution for this? Best regards and thanks, Christian

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RAGE XL Framebuffer
by Yanick Quirion 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Hi all I know that is not a specific question about Fedora, but I can't find answer on the kernel mailing list. Is somebody having server with integrated ATI RAGE XL video card? Is it possible to patch the kernel to support this video card? If I add VGA=791 in my grub.conf, I will have a resolution of 1024x768 which is good, but the display is very slow (especially when the screen is scrolling). If I use I this: "video=aty128fb:1024x768@70" it will not work. I'm using kernel 2.4.22 but I will try 2.6.0-test11 today. If somebody has a patch, a link or anything else that can help me, it will be appreciated. Thanks for your help. Regards, ----------- Yanick Quirion Administrateur Réseau/Network Manager NEOKIMIA INC. Institut de Pharmacologie de Sherbrooke 3e étage (Édifice Z5) 3001 12e avenue Nord Sherbrooke, Québec CANADA J1H 5N4 Tél.: +1 819 820-6040 Direct: +1 819 820-6855 Fax.: +1 819 820-6841 email: Yanick.Quirion(a)neokimia.com

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Soundblaster
by Antonio Montagnani 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

I have two similar PC (old Pentium but workin fine) In Pc no.1 I upgraded from RH8 to Fedora and it went fine: Soundblaster is working fine In Pc no.2 I made a fresh installation but in redhat-sound-config Fedora doesn't see any card, that was working on Redhat 9 after soundconfig... Where is the trick?? I assume that my Sounblaster is an old 16...but fine on a router/firewall. Tnx Antonio

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ssh and port 22 problem, cont.
by Gerhard Magnus 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

Greetings! I've made some progress on troubleshooting this "ssh & port 22 problem". Here was my original post: When I try to connect from a remote machine to my one at home using ssh I get the error message "ssh: connect to host 64.146.133.1 port 22: Connection refused" -- but using ssh in the outgoing direction (i.e. from home to the remote location) works fine. Here's what's happened since: I have two machines (PuteA and PuteB) sharing an ActionTec DSL modem. The IP I was using was that of my "Gateway" ISP (64.146.133.1) -- an error. But when I used the correct, static IP address of the ActionTec (64.146.133.52) I got this message: ssh: connect to host 64.146.133.52 port22: Connection refused I thought I had port forwarding (for port 22) set correctly on the modem. For troubleshooting, my ISP advised me to run "tcpdump -n host 192.168.0.2" on PuteA, where 192.168.0.2 is the "internal" IP of PuteA. Then I logged on to the remote location from PuteB and tried to ssh from there to PuteA using the static IP address. The ssh from the remote location timed out with the same "port 22: connection refused" message. The tcpdump on Pute A gave this message: > tcpdump: listening on eth0 > 17:27:33.662753 arp who-has 192.168.0.2 tell 192.168.0.1 where 182.168.0.1 is the "internal" IP of the modem. (Sorry if I have this terminology wrong.) My ISP says the problem is the firewall on PuteA and that he doesn't do linux firewalls. Here are my replies to the people who responded to my first post: (1) "Do you have the firewall configured to deny incoming packets to port 22?" How do I check this? (2) "You need to check that sshd is running on your system." Yes. I comes up with each boot. Also "service sshd status" gives "sshd (pid 787) is running". (3) "sshd uses /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. Check that they are configured to allow your remote machine in." Both files have only commented lines. (4) "Also, if your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file has VerifyReverseMapping turned on, you will get kicked out if your remote address does not work with a reverse dns lookup." There's a "VerifyReverseMapping no" line in the file but it's been commented out. (5) "Just to be sure: when you are at home machine, try 'ssh localhost'. If this works, you probably need to check your firewall." It seems to work -- I ssh to the machine itself. (6) "This is common on every system I have ever loaded with FC2. Your iptables are blocking the connection. You can do one of the following: iptables -A INPUT -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 - j ACCEPT" I tried this. The ssh to PuteA from the remote location still times out. (7) "Oh yes I also took out the REDHAT firewall entrie as I dont have a clue as to how to work with it." I've fiddled endlessly with this "system tool" at each of the three levels of security as well as using the "customize" option to set eth0 as a trusted device and to allow incoming ssh. It doesn't show the settings that actually exist. (8) "If your fedora box is connected directly to a DSL modem, you should be able to find your IP address by running ifconfig from the command line and looking for 'inet addr:' (probably under 'eth0')." eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:81:60:8E inet addr:192.168.0.4 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2005 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:1122075 (1.0 Mb) TX bytes:190214 (185.7 Kb) Interrupt:5 Base address:0x3000 Could this be the problem -- the "inet addr" of 192.168.0.4? As far as I can tell, the modem is 192.168.0.1, PuteA is 192.168.0.2, and PuteB is 192.168.0.3. I haven't set anything as 192.168.0.4. (9) "nmap 64.146.133.52" (The 1598 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 23/tcp open telnet 53/tcp open domain 80/tcp open http Shouldn't ssh be here? And what's telnet doing open? The books have me scared to death of this... hackers, crackers, script kiddies, etc. Thanks for the help! Jerry Magnus

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eth0 dont start at bootime
by Wolfgang Morawetz 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hi, each time i boot fedora i must enable by hand the eth0 device (by the gui congig-tool). What must i do to enable the device at boot? # cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=bugs.acme # cat /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 # cat /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0 # cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 all 3 the same output # Macronix, Inc. [MXIC]|MX987x5 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=00:50:BF:76:39:8F ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet DHCP_HOSTNAME=bugs.acme USERCTL=no PEERDNS=no Thx Wolfgang alias wfx (http://teg.sf.net)

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Yum on x86_64
by Gareth Bult 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

Hi, I seem to have (finally :) ) acquired a complete(ish) / working x86_64 system .. but I'm still having trouble with a few bits, not least "yum". I get; Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Unreleased Updates Finding updated packages Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "yummain.py", line 204, in main File "clientStuff.py", line 363, in getupdatedhdrlist File "clientStuff.py", line 409, in bestversion IndexError: list index out of range [root@squizzey oddjob]# (This is a modified system [2.6.0-test11] however it seems to run well) Pointing it at mozilla's channel for SeaMonkey seems to work if I disable the default channels, however... Anyone any ideas ? (I was sort of expecting to see it say "no x86_64 updates supported yet" as opposed to a complete crash) Also, can yum pull SRPMS and rebuild them ? tia Gareth.

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Python, RPM error
by Austin Isler 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

I apologize if this is in the archives, and I missed it. I updated rpm a while back with: # yum -y update rpm I believe it installed a python2.4 package as well. Ever since then, I have had problems with python and rpm. I get this error when trying to use yum: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 6, in ? import yummain File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 23, in ? import yum File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 21, in ? import rpm ImportError: No module named rpm Appreciate the help, Austin

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VNC: Which desktop it displays
by Shane Presley 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Hello, I'm running VNC (pre-installed) with FC3. My client/view is on Windows 2000. To configure VNC I modified /etc/sysconfig/vncservers VNCSERVERS="1:root" VNCSERVERARGS[1]="-geometry 800x600" And set a password. Then started the service "service vncserver start" Starts up fine, and I can connect with my viewer to port 5901. I'm new to Linux, so I'm confused about what desktop I am seeing. I know with VNC server on a windows server, you get the display that the local mouse/keyboard/monitor sees. There's only one desktop. With FC3, I seem to be getting a new virtual desktop. I guess that would be useful to run X applications. But is there a way to use VNC to display the exact same thing that my locally attached keyboard/mouse/monitor see? So if I change something remotely using VNC, the local monitor also displays my changes. Just as if I was at the console? Thanks Shane

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Installing Python 2.4
by Mariano Draghi 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

In http://www.python.org/2.4/rpms.html there are RPM packages for FC3, and a Yum repository provided by python.org (hey! so far FC3 is the only distro with RPMs provided by python.org itself!) I'd like to know if anybody have installed these packages, and if they fit pleasently into FC3. As Fedora uses Python *heavely*, I don't want to break anything. So, it's safe to install this, or I'd be better waiting for an official update? (assuming there are plans for such an update...) TIA, -- Mariano

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