hi,
I have a firewall server which runs squid. The firewall is configured
by shorewall. We have 3 ISPs,
1. bsnl broadband 2 Mbps
2. leased line 2 Mbps
3. an internal line - not relevant to this issue
The LAN has 150 machines.
The problem I face with the first two is this: the line works well,
iftop shows 2 Mbps or more of traffic. Then at random intervals -
sometimes after several days, sometimes after a few hours, traffic
stops flowing. Checking the interface with ping, sometimes I am
unable to ping the gateway, at other times I can ping the gateway,
but cannot ping anything beyond the gateway. I stop traffic to that
line, and after some time restart traffic and it works ok.
I checked all the wiring, tightened everything in sight. When any of
these lines are connected to a single pc, there is no problem
regardless of the load put on it.
We then put NAT on the leased line router and connected it directly
to the LAN. It works without crashing. The only difference is speed.
When connected through the firewall server, with full load in
daytime, download of Ubuntu ISO takes about 1 to 2 hours. In the same
conditions, when the LAN is directly connected to the router, it
takes 5 to 6 hours.
According to the ISP guys this is due to improper configuration of
the firewall. I have discussed this with several people and they feel
that a firewall cannot cause a router crash. One suggestion is that
the router cannot handle the load - and that it is a hardware
failure. Any one has had similar experiences?
--
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate, NRC-FOSS
lawgon(a)au-kbc.org
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/
Hi
I use PPPOE (default implementation that came with Ubuntu 7.04) to connect
to my ISP. Everything was fine for last two years. But from last three days,
I am not able use Internet. I tried using Windows where everything works
fine with the same settings. On "ifconfig -a", it shows the ppp adapter. But
when I enter the URL in the browser it says "looking for google.co.in". I am
not able to ping the DNS server. I think that its not getting DNS response.
When I run the pppoe configuration utility, it fetches the DNS server
address from the ISP. My friend who uses the same ISP has also reported the
same problem with Ubuntu 7.04.
Can anybody help.
--
Dev Ranjan Das
Scientific Officer 'C'
Laser and Plasma Technology Division
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Trombay, Mumbai - 400085
Phone:
Office: 022-25595697
e-mail: devranjandas(a)gmail.com
513,Nilgiri, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai- 400094, Phone: 022-25572003
http://vision-2020.blogspot.com
It is clear that they have manipulated and won an important round. Now,
the only way is to make some Government/s appeal in the matter within 60
days, otherwise, the corrupt one wins this game.
It may be worth trying an effort (in the form of a strong-focused
campaign) wherein Linux users come together (virtually, to begin with)
and educate various Governments. It will be a worthy cause to make this
effort and also we test the strength of the community (with a view to
improve it further as a result of this test).
We need our world to be ours and we need to take it away from the
corrupt ones. Shall we begin?
====================================================
Microsoft wins battle for OOXML approval
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39378350,00.htm
The International Organization for Standardization has officially
approved Microsoft's OOXML specification as a standard.
The news confirms documents leaked on Tuesday were genuine.
Three-quarters of the "Principal Countries" involved in the vote gave
their approval (at least two-thirds were needed) and just 14 percent of
participating members of ISO and the International Electrotechnical
Commission (IEC) disapproved (under a quarter was needed).
According to ISO's Wednesday statement: "Subject to there being no
formal appeals from ISO/IEC national bodies in the next two months, the
International Standard will accordingly proceed to publication."
Although there have been allegations of voting irregularities within
some of the national standards bodies that in turn participated in the
ISO vote, no national body has yet made a formal appeal to ISO.
One prominent example had been an objection from Steve Pepper, the
chairman of Standard Norge's joint technical committee, which he faxed
directly to the ISO. In the letter, he claimed that 80 percent of the
committee had been against the OOXML standard being passed — Norway
officially recorded a vote of approval.
However, a spokesperson for Standard Norge told ZDNet.co.uk on Wednesday
that the organisation had not made a formal appeal to ISO, and did not
intend to do so. "One of the committee members sent a fax to ISO about
this matter, but he did that directly and not through us," the
spokesperson said.
A spokesperson for ISO confirmed on Wednesday that it had not yet
received any formal objections to the OOXML voting process, and refused
to comment on the reports of voting irregularities within national
bodies.
---
With best wishes for Unity in thinking, feeling and action.
Sudhir Gandotra. 98-101-20918
You don't need violence to shake the world
Treat Others As You Would Have Them Treat You
www.humanistmovement.org
Hey there!
I am new to this list, group and city so I thought I did just pop in
and say hi! I am a slackware user... and I have been one since quite
some time. I was looking through the website and either it hasn't been
updated or this group hasn't met for quite some time or I missed
something obvious. :) Is there a meeting planned anytime soon?
Cheers,
Anshul
--
Anshul Khandelwal,
Informm, Valuepitch, Bombay.
www.informm.inhttp://valuepitch.com
Home Page/openid: http://anshul.baboonlogic.com/
Blog: http://baboonlogic.com
--
अंशुल खंडेलवाल
Hi,
Just saw this when I ran `fortune':
frodo@laptop-zion:~$ fortune
Techical solutions are not a matter of voting. Two legislations in the US
states almost decided that the value of Pi be 3.14, exactly. Popular vote
does not make for a correct solution.
-- Manoj Srivastava
Regards,
Mohan S N
--
Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves
possess.
-- Gandalf the Grey [J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"]
Rediff had a _very_ short-lived front-page news item on ISO approval of OOXML.
It immediately started attracting anti-OOXML comments, and they
promptly relegated it to
their backside... (no pun intended)
(Devil's advocate) - MS PR managers at work?
http://in.rediff.com/money/2008/apr/03ms.htm
Given the quality of rediff news items, and those of comments on them, it's
hard to convince oneself that moving this important news item away had
nothing more
to it.
--
jaju
> Soruce RPM installed content into /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS directory. I want to
> change that to /root's home directory, can I do that ? if yes then how can
> i do that?
One way to do that is to set custom values for %_topdir, %_sourcedir,
%_specdir, %_srcrpmdir, %_builddir, and %_rpmdir in your ~/.rpmmacros
file. eg., I use the following line:
%_topdir /home/rishi/devel/redhat
Ref: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-rpm2/
Cheers,
Debarshi
--
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
-- Arthur Ashe
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: jtd <jtd(a)mtnl.net.in>
> To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org>
> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:09:07 +0530
> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Cross Posting] How the corrupt ones manipulate
> things - are we going to allow them to win ? Should we just keep quiet or
> begin a global protest ?
> On Saturday 29 March 2008 10:53 am, Sudhir Gandotra wrote:
>
> > The statement goes on to say that Danish Standards is changing its
> > vote because "the 168 Danish comments have been adopted as changes
> > to ISO/IEC DIS 29500 OOXML".
>
> What they did not tell you is that abstain = yes. And that email votes
> count. Only that many of the abstainers never recieved any intimation
> stating that abstain = yes.
>
> So in the bizzare M$ universe no with comments become yes, if the ecma
> makes a comment - any comment - on your comment and abstain = yes and
> you can change a no to yes BUT you turncoats cant change a yes to no.
>
> Get it. NO? aha that's what happens if you dont use M$.
>
The standard operating process of Microsoft has been:
a) Stuff the committee with supporters (as happened in Pakistan and other
countries)
b) If that doesn't work and the committee says NO to OOXML then
c) Complain to the ministries under which the committee works, threaten
to withdraw investment, get proxies to file complaints etc.
In India, I hear that they raised the issue with the Prime Minister's Office
and the PM called for a meeting on this issue on Thursday. Apparently, the
head of one of the software export houses (a VERY respected person) also
sent a fax supporting OOXML *after* the committee had given its decision,
trying to overturn India's NO vote. Someone should ask whether these
companies represent India's interests on the BIS committee or are they
protecting their dollar revenues?
Venky