Linuxers April 2008

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can a badly configured firewall crash a router?
by Kenneth Gonsalves 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

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/

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PPPOE related issues
by Devranjan Das 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

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

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[Cross Posting] How the corrupt ones manipulate things
by Sudhir Gandotra 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

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

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and now is the time for hero worship
by Kenneth Gonsalves 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/heroes/default.mspx -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/

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Intro...
by Anshul Khandelwal 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

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.in http://valuepitch.com Home Page/openid: http://anshul.baboonlogic.com/ Blog: http://baboonlogic.com -- अंशुल खंडेलवाल

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Mention of Manoj Srivastav in `fortune'
by Mohan Nayaka 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

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"]

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by Prashant Shah 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

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MS PR at work? --> Re: How the corrupt ones manipulate things
by Ravindra Jaju 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

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

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] How can I put the Source RPM file in installation disk of Fedora?
by Debarshi Ray 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

> 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

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How the corrupt ones manipulate things
by Venkatesh Hariharan 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

> > ---------- 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

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