[ILUG] Meteor broadband to go issue & Fedora 10
Pinco Pallino
baodhah at yahoo.it
Tue Oct 20 22:33:22 IST 2009
Good evening everyone,
I bought 2 days ago Meteor Broadband to go: I have Fedora 10 on my laptop and the modem is a HUAWEI E180.
Apparently no problems, since the device was immediately recognised and working under Network Manager, but, started answering the question to get access to the network, when I tried to set the ASP I found in a forum (broadband.meteor.ie) nm-applet crashed; I decided, then, to keep the default option (I can't remember what it was) and in a second stage I got the request of a password for Meteor network.
Useless to say that I have no idea what it is, but in the forum suggesting "broadband.meteor.ie" there was written that -using that- I wouldn't have to put any userID or password.
Can anybody help me, please?
Francesco
________________________________
Da: "ilug-request at linux.ie" <ilug-request at linux.ie>
A: ilug at linux.ie
Inviato: Gio 15 gennaio 2009, 2:53:04
Oggetto: ILUG Digest, Vol 39, Issue 25
Send ILUG mailing list submissions to
ilug at linux.ie
To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
http://mail.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
ilug-request at linux.ie
You can reach the person managing the list at
ilug-owner at linux.ie
When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of ILUG digest..."
Today's Topics:
1. Re: Hard Disk Protection in Live CD Boot Ups (Francis Daly)
2. Re: OT: Waterford City has moved (Steven Kavanagh)
3. Re: Creating Large Linux Partitions on Media Server (Gareth Eason)
4. Re: Creating Large Linux Partitions on Media Server (John Allen)
5. Re: Hard Disk Protection in Live CD Boot Ups (Cian Davis)
6. VPN Passthough - iptables (Declan Grady)
7. Camara Africa 2009 (Hester Jackman)
8. Re: Hard Disk Protection in Live CD Boot Ups (Timothy Murphy)
9. Re: Hard Disk Protection in Live CD Boot Ups (Rick Moen)
10. Re: Reminder: Please Respond to S.'s Invitation (paul at clubi.ie)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:34:05 +0000
From: "Francis Daly" <francisdaly at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Hard Disk Protection in Live CD Boot Ups
To: "Kuda Dube" <kd.gnu.linux at gmail.com>
Cc: ilug at linux.ie
Message-ID:
<95e0396f0901140734n3f66724dgcf056bf69d1deccb at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
On 14/01/2009, Kuda Dube <kd.gnu.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi there,
> ... one may have to choose between these extreme security scenarios:
No.
One *always* has to choose between these security scenarios.
When it fails, either:
* everyone can access the data
* no-one can access the data
Pick one, accept it, and design accordingly.
(And even then, you may find that it fails in the other way.)
f
------------------------------
Message: 2
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:47:48 +0000
From: "Steven Kavanagh" <mrvestek at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ILUG] OT: Waterford City has moved
To: "Cian Brennan" <lil_cain at redbrick.dcu.ie>
Cc: Irish Linux Users Group <ilug at linux.ie>
Message-ID:
<92737c0c0901140747u60898211tab5c1a0e42f872a6 at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
I stand corrected so.
Regards,
Steve
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Cian Brennan <lil_cain at redbrick.dcu.ie>wrote:
> The only contested bits were ferry bank, just across the river, afaik.
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:47:21AM +0000, Steven Kavanagh wrote:
> > Wasn't that area of Waterford always contested as originally belonging to
> > Kilkenny?
> >
> > As far as I remember there's been much debate about this for years. This
> is
> > the only reference I could find referring to such;
> >
> >
> http://seamusryan.blogspot.com/2007/04/waterford-city-council-boundary.html
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Frank Murphy
> > <frankly3d at fedoraproject.org>wrote:
> >
> > > http://maps.google.com/
> > >
> > > Type in waterford
> > >
> > > Does that mean we got the all-Ireland ;)
> > >
> > > Frank
> > > --
> > > Irish Linux Users' Group mailing list
> > > About this list : http://mail.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug
> > > Who we are : http://www.linux.ie/
> > > Where we are : http://www.linux.ie/map/
> > >
> > --
> > Irish Linux Users' Group mailing list
> > About this list : http://mail.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug
> > Who we are : http://www.linux.ie/
> > Where we are : http://www.linux.ie/map/
> >
>
> --
>
> --
>
------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:00:54 +0000
From: Gareth Eason <bigbro at skynet.ie>
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Creating Large Linux Partitions on Media Server
To: Gary Boland <gary.boland at gmail.com>
Cc: ilug at linux.ie, "Hamilton, David" <David.Hamilton at redstone.ie>
Message-ID: <496E0C36.2030901 at skynet.ie>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Gary Boland wrote:
> ...........OS partition. SSD with 2 partition that you could fail over to in
> the case of the OS partition going bananas. no need for swap partition on
> recent hardware with reasonable amounts of ram
[snip]
SSD or USB stick as a backup of your OS is possibly an option, though I've
taken the option of creating a RAID1 across all disks for my operating system.
Means that any disk failure will result in no interruption whatsoever, and I
don't ever have to remember which disks my OS are one, since they are on all
of them.
If your data is important to you, use RAID6. With RAID5 and 6 x disks you
stand a very high chance of getting an unrecoverable read error on one of the
other disks during rebuild, with the potential that you lose ALL your data.
Check the statistical error rates of your disks, but consumer drives seem to
equate to about one unrecoverable read error for every 3TB worth of data (3
disks, in your case.) YMMV, and probably will, so please check independently
and for your own hardware.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
-->Gar
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:10:41 +0000
From: John Allen <john.allen at dublinux.net>
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Creating Large Linux Partitions on Media Server
To: "Hamilton, David" <David.Hamilton at redstone.ie>
Cc: ilug at linux.ie
Message-ID: <496E1C91.5090608 at dublinux.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hamilton, David wrote:
> I am about to build a linux media server at home, and am wondering what the best way of doing this is.
> It has 6 x 1Tb Hard Drives, and I want most of this to be provided as one large, ideally RAID protected, partition.
>
>
I create a multi-disk mirrored /boot, and multiple raid5/6 devices for
other file systems. I would definitely keep / on it's own device, and
create a large device for the storage area.
The install grub on all disks, and even when your first disk fails you
can still boot.
> Option 1:
> Do I use the md driver to create one large 6 disk RAID-5 set and then partition that for boot, swap, root and then one big partition for the rest.
> This would mean booting off a software RAID-5 set, but I get the feeling from Professor Google that this should be possible.
> If you create a software RAID set using md, can you then fdisk that device as if it were a traditional disk?
>
> Option 2:
> Do I create a normal boot, root and swap on the first disk and then use LVM to create one big filesystem with the rest.
>
> Am I correct in saying that LVM on linux doesn't support mirroring the way it does on HP-UX?
>
> I am planning on running MediaTomb as a uPnP server, but if anyone knows of a better option, please feel free to share.
>
> Thanks,
> David.
>
> **********************************************************************
> DISCLAIMER:
> This correspondence may contain information which is confidential or proprietary or both. Any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of this communication without prior permission of the addressee is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient you may not disclose, copy or use this information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender to discuss its return or destruction.
>
> The contents, comments and views contained or expressed within this correspondence do not necessarily reflect those of Redstone, its subsidiaries, affiliates, associates or sister companies and are not intended to create legal relations with the recipient.
> Redstone may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and staff training.
> If you would like to know more about Redstone, visit us on the web at www.redstone.ie or contact our Sales Office on +353 1 276 7100.
> Redstone Technology Limited
> Registered in Ireland with Company Number: E0231415
> Registered Office: Furze Court, Furze Road, Sandyford Industrial Estate, Dublin 18
> *********************************************************************
>
------------------------------
Message: 5
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:16:35 +0000
From: Cian Davis <cian.davis at skynet.ie>
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Hard Disk Protection in Live CD Boot Ups
To: Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>
Cc: ilug at linux.ie
Message-ID: <496E3A13.1090201 at skynet.ie>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> As a matter of interest, what do you recommend for encryption?
I use either KeePassX (http://www.keepassx.org/) or Keyring
(http://gnukeyring.sourceforge.net/) for storing passwords and the
likes. KeePassX has both Windows and Linux versions, which is useful.
Keyring means I have all the passwords with me all the times.
Cian
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
iEUEARECAAYFAkluOgwACgkQ2yUma7R/3b/9pQCfcuSmsMAw6VQKx2jE2O5FdRyZ
ZggAliMsh5ZSx5TOjrmPRPtzi+9I82Y=
=+tn5
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
------------------------------
Message: 6
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:23:05 -0000
From: "Declan Grady" <declan at declangrady.com>
Subject: [ILUG] VPN Passthough - iptables
To: <ilug at linux.ie>
Message-ID: <A93A7A5C0EA4498F86930AD54F23B22A at nuvotem.local>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi folks,
I need some help with my iptables stuff to allow VPN passthrough to a
windows server on my lan.
I've googled and tested & googled & tested, etc etc, but I'n not sure which
end my problem lies, or how to find out.
My setup is pretty simple. I have a fixed external IP.
DSL : eth1 on firewall, 192.168.1.x
LAN : eth0 on firewall, 192.168.0.x
On my lan is a windows server box with fixed IP, 192.168.0.x
All LAN is fixed IP, 192.168.0.xxx, and is natted for external browsing, etc
Now, I want to allow incoming VPN to the windows box for when some users are
out & about.
Best info I found so far (I think) was from
http://osdir.com/ml/debian.devel.firewall/2004-04/msg00098.html
which was this :
$VPN_SERVER is my fixed IP windows box
iptables -A INPUT -p 47 -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p 47 -i eth1 -j DNAT --to $VPN_SERVER
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -p 47 -d $VPN_SERVER -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 1723 -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth1 --dport 1723 -j DNAT --to
$VPN_SERVER:1723
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -p tcp -d $VPN_SERVER --dport 1723 -j ACCEPT
I guess I'm missing something, as it just times out trying to connect.
On the client end, I have a zyxel router (from ibb), so maybe I need to
configure that somehow to allow the 47 and 1723 stuff in & out as well ?
Any advise welcome !
Thanks,
Declan
------------------------------
Message: 7
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:20:53 +0000
From: "Hester Jackman" <hester at camara.ie>
Subject: [ILUG] Camara Africa 2009
To: ilug at linux.ie
Message-ID:
<eee739540901140420w21d56edbh7f203a0f8cd7e932 at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
*What are you doing this summer???*
*Africa Teaching Trip with Camara 2009 *
Camara is a registered Irish Charity staffed primarily by volunteers. Our
mission is to enhance the educational system in Africa by using Irish
technology resources. All our computers we send out use Linux as the
operating system and are loaded up with edubuntu software.
Each year a group of Camara volunteers travel to the computer labs and hubs
that Camara have set up in a growing number of African countries, to teach
basic and advanced ICT skills.
In July 2009 Camara will be sending volunteers to teach in our EDU-Labs in
schools across Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and
Zambia. Volunteers will teach introductory computer Hardware and Software
skills in schools and educational institutions over a four week period.
Volunteering abroad with Camara gives you that chance to get involved with a
local community in Africa, it is a great opportunity to share and pass on
some of your own skills.
I am pleased to announce that information and applications are now
available, please follow this link
http://www.camara.ie/volunteer/africa09/index.php for our online application
and further details of the trip.
Africa 08 volunteers wrote a blog about their experience, go to
http://camara.ie/blog/ to read some of their stories or look at their
pictures.
Further information is available on our website at, www.camara.ie but if you
have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me
hester at camara.ie
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards
--
Hester Jackman
Volunteer Coordinator
Camara
The Digital Hub
10-13 Thomas Street
Dublin 8
w.www.camara.ie
e. hester at camara.ie
t. +353 (0) 1 6522668
------------------------------
Message: 8
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:25:46 +0000
From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Hard Disk Protection in Live CD Boot Ups
To: ilug at linux.ie
Message-ID: <200901142325.46728.gayleard at eircom.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
On Wednesday 14 January 2009 13:50:02 Josh Glover wrote:
> > As a matter of interest, what do you recommend for encryption?
>
> GPG:
>
> http://gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html
Can it be integrated into vi/vim reasonably easily?
It would be rather tedious to unencrypt, edit and encrypt again.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
------------------------------
Message: 9
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:13:38 -0800
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Hard Disk Protection in Live CD Boot Ups
To: ilug at linux.ie
Message-ID: <20090115011338.GM16400 at linuxmafia.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Quoting Cian Davis (cian.davis at skynet.ie):
> I use either KeePassX (http://www.keepassx.org/) or Keyring
> (http://gnukeyring.sourceforge.net/) for storing passwords and the
> likes. KeePassX has both Windows and Linux versions, which is useful.
> Keyring means I have all the passwords with me all the times.
Rave review, here, for Keyring. It should also be noted that JPilot
includes a "conduit" (extension) that permits it to display and edit
Keyring databases, as part of its main mission of letting you manage the
files backed up onto an *ix machine from your PalmOS PDA.
Such programs (KeePassX, Keyring) have the additional benefit that,
suddenly, it becomes practical to use globally unique security tokens
that never get repeated from place to place -- because you no longer
need to memorise them; you need only remember the master 3DES (or such)
key for access to your password database.
So, for example, when bank Web site #1 asks me to furnish at
registration time where I was born, I can say "Barsoom" and bank Web
site #2 can get "R'lyeh" for the same question -- and neither one of
them needs to know actual personal details. Attempts to cross-correlate
then would result in a rather colourful dossier. ;-> And data theft
doesn't hurt you.
------------------------------
Message: 10
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:52:35 +0000 (GMT)
From: paul at clubi.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Reminder: Please Respond to S.'s Invitation
To: Paschal Nee <pnee at toombeola.com>
Cc: ilug at linux.ie
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901150236220.4958 at localhost.localdomain>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Paschal Nee wrote:
> v=spf1 ip4:216.239.32.0/19 ip4:64.233.160.0/19 ip4:66.249.80.0/20
> ip4:72.14.192.0/18 ip4:209.85.128.0/17 ip4:66.102.0.0/20
> ip4:74.125.0.0/16 ip4:64.18.0.0/20 ip4:207.126.144.0/20 ?all
Why do you think spammers are unable to setup valid SPF records?
Spammers were the leading *ADOPTERS* of SPF (note that this article
is from 2004):
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=2154
I'm just amazed there are *still* people touting SPF as being an
effective anti-spam solution...
It might have some amount of value as an attestation device ("this
mail seems like it came from a valid example.com mail server") - but
that still doesn't seem very useful (ok, great - but is it really
from joe at example.com though?). However, I don't know of any MUAs that
allow the user to easily see whether a mail passed SPF (and it'd need
MTA co-operation to do this reliably, I suspect)..
If that kind of thing matters, one really ought to be encouraging
digital signatures (preferably based on a PKI where certification is
in the hands of the people, like PGP), rather than SPF.
SPF was a weak, very short-term hack when it was first conceived, and
it's now way past its expiry date.
2004 is calling and wants this argument back..
regards,
--
Paul Jakma paul at clubi.ie paul at jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A
Fortune:
The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.
------------------------------
--
Irish Linux Users' Group mailing list
About this list : http://mail.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug
Who we are : http://www.linux.ie/
Where we are : http://www.linux.ie/map/
End of ILUG Digest, Vol 39, Issue 25
************************************
More information about the ILUG
mailing list