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Sunday, June 11, 2000
We survived Andrew's bowling party yesterday
afternoon no worse for the experience. Actually, the AMF
lanes folks here in Winston-Salem do a very nice job. They
assign someone to stay with you and help for the entire length
(2:30) of the party, helping the kids with the bowling, getting
the pizza and drinks served and returning with your cake and ice
cream.
Andrew had about 15 of us at his party, including
about a half-dozen adults, who, by the way, got quite competitive
in their bowling.
I have had some very interesting email
conversations over the weekend concerning the deployment of the
cable modem on my network. At first I thought bringing up
Linux would be a natural solution, but then as I read on (thanks
to many of the daynoters) I
found that since I have the RoadRunner service from Time-Warner,
that I may not have a true cable modem.
Hence, I think I have scrapped the Linux plans and
will retreat to some kind of Windows Internet Connection Sharing
service and firewall/proxy service. I was quickly led here
because I just do not have enough Linux experience to make that
system a major part of my network, not to mention a crucial
one. I am fortunate in that I can get around in Windows
decently and if I went the Linux route I would just be asking for
trouble. I still think I want to keep a Linux box on my
network so I can learn something of this operating system.
Those of us who make up the Daynotes gang share an
email list and included in this list are some very knowledgeable
computer guys and gals. Their very free with their advice
and knowledge and the same was true this weekend when Bob Thompson,
who is a neighbor and will be getting his RoadRunner service next
week, got the thread going when he asked on for some advice
on a single disk Linux firewall/proxy service. Some of the
advice on the Linux dilemma over the weekend included:
The first alert came from Matt Beland [matt@rearviewmirror.org]
when he mentioned the RoadRunner service may not be a true cable
modem service.
Well, the problem here is that
you're not running a true cable modem; you're running RoadRunner.
Totally different story. As I understand it, the RoadRunner is
basically a very fast modem; you don't even have an IP address
of your own, you have a PPP connection through RAS, just like
dial-up. I don't know how critical security would be in a case
like that.
In any event, none of the
single-disk firewalls I've seen have the configuration for
RoadRunner. I have seen a document for configuring RoadRunner
under Linux; there's a link to it at the bottom of the email. I
have (obviously, not having RoadRunner) never used it, but I'm
told it's the best available. Also, don't expect any help from
Time Warner; reportedly, they're vaguely upset about people
using IP Masquerading on their service, although they have no
rules against it. They also officially don't support Linux -
again, that's second hand, it might just have been that service
area (Austin, Texas.)
Here's the link:
http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/LG/issue51/nielsen.html
Here's another one off LinuxDoc:
http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/LG/issue28/nielsen.html
Dan Seto [dseto@itool.com]
may been suggesting in this note not to give up on Linux so
quickly
I know you've decided to go with
ICS. But for those who still want to dabble with Linux. They can
take a look at the following:
edge.fireplug.net/latest/cable.htm
www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/index.html
www.coyotelinux.com/free.php3
www.zelow.no/floppyfw/floppyfw-ax.html
home.kscable.com/wecoyote/FrazierWall.html
www.sharethenet.com
I haven't installed any of them yet
(Real Soon Now) so I can not vouch for how well they work or how
easy they are to install.
For the general topic of cable modem
sharing, a good site is
www.timhiggins.com/ppd/sharingcable.htm
or you can take a look at http:/usmcug.usm.maine.edu/~kpesce/rr/.
Note that various Road Runner services may use different ways of
connecting so your mileage may vary. Some services require a
login program but I think most are moving away from that (Hawaii
used to require this but did away with it about six months ago).
As for me, all I had to do was get
DHCP up and running on OpenLinux 2.4 Desktop and Bob's your
Uncle, I was on the net. No, RR does not support Linux. No, RR
does not support ICS. In fact, RR does not support a home
network at all unless you upgrade to the more expensive package.
But then, you also get a static IP address if you go for that
package).
Microsoft has been busy fixing the pacakage they
call Microsoft Office2000. The are already two service
release packages, SR-1 and SR-1a. The message from
Microsoft:
The Office 2000 Service
Release 1a (SR-1a) update is now available on the Office Update
Web site. The update includes the original Office 2000 SR-1
update and adds to it the functionality of the Office
2000/Windows 2000 Registry Repair Utility. This is the only
difference between SR-1 and SR-1a. Customers who have already
installed the SR-1 update but have not upgraded from the Windows
NT 4 to the Windows 2000 operating system do not need to install
SR-1a. Customers who have upgraded from Windows NT 4 to Windows
2000 and already installed the SR-1 update should only install
the Office 2000/Windows 2000 Repair Utility. All other users
should install the entire SR-1a update.
You can download the latest
service release here.
And then I got an email message for a user
in Malaysia [philip@star.cdc.abu.com]
who asked for some basic help for a Unix newbie.
I need some help on unix command as
i'm a newbie UNIX.
We have bought 2 Sun Solaris machine
running on Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 2.7 (7) and also 2 Linux
Redhat 6.2
Everyday we had a presentation on
Unix command and i'm alway running out of Unix Command ( basic
command)
Can you share some of the command
Unix command with me?
The pass command i use was,
man
xman
ifconfig
ls
mail
Thank you for you time and any
recommandation on books for newbies for Sun and Linux ?
As
you might have been able to tell from my pages I also am a
Unix novice and have struggled with Unix commands from time to
time. In fact, I've purchased several refrence books,
including Unix in a Nutshell from Orielly, as well as hitting
the web for advice.
A
quick search for help on Unix commads gave me these sites:
Good
luck
Mic
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Friday, June
16, 2000
I had written a rather lengthy explanation on what
I have been doing to my network this week, which includes the
installation of Windows 2000 Professional and WinGate, the cable
modem and blowing away my Linux installation. However, I
wrote it at the office this morning in Word, tried to mail it to
myself, but it never arrived. That's what I get for taking
the afternoon off! My administrative assistant (today's PC
term for secretary) even tried mailing it to me (as an attachment)
to both addresses: steve@wakeolda.com
and tucke31@wakeolda.com,
but no dice. I wonder if WinGate is giving me a problem with
attachments?
Anyway, I'm off to Virginia where Katie will spend
a few days with her grandmother and I'll get the message posted
the first of the week.
Timing is everything. While we are in the
midst of making all of these changes to our local network, PC
Magazine is nice enough to publish their roundup of six
tools to help keep your desktop safe. PC selects
Norton's Internet Security 2000 2.0 as their editor's
choice. Black Ice, which has been discussed here was a
distant third. They also included some reviews of corporate
firewalls if you're interested in the heavy iron.
I don't want to brag too early, but I think
I may have gotten FP2K to work with my WinGate setup. I
unchecked the "use same port for all" and in the FTP
section entered the IP address of my WinGate server and changed
port 80 to port 21. This message will be a test post.
update:
It was somewhat of an early chirp. It published once, so I
decided to try again and it bombed, so I immediately tried
publishing again and it went through. I'm going to keep my
fingers crossed.
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