Re: Outlook and Qmail

2004-07-22 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Do me a quick favor and when it happens, grep the message for three +++ signs together... if he's on a dialup modem, I have seen 3 plusses cause the modem to go into the 'guard' and 'hang' the email program. A long shot, but something worth looking into. On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:26:22PM -0400

Re: Ticketing systems

2003-12-10 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
We currently use a commercial system, but it works great for us, and the price really isnt that bad. It also is mostly written in PHP so you can change a good bit of it if you need to. The proprietarey part is the C binary that injects emails received into the database. http://www.cerberusweb.

Re: Ticketing systems

2003-12-10 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
We currently use a commercial system, but it works great for us, and the price really isnt that bad. It also is mostly written in PHP so you can change a good bit of it if you need to. The proprietarey part is the C binary that injects emails received into the database. http://www.cerberusweb.

Re: Has anyone used etinc bandwidth manager on Debian?

2003-06-17 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
I dont work for this company but saw it demo'ed once and it was neat, and the price is right. The interface is really neat, and would allow you to bill as well. http://www.ydi.com/products/bcu.php On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:15:44PM -0400, Theodore Knab wrote: > We have the Etinc bandwidth manag

Re: Has anyone used etinc bandwidth manager on Debian?

2003-06-17 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
I dont work for this company but saw it demo'ed once and it was neat, and the price is right. The interface is really neat, and would allow you to bill as well. http://www.ydi.com/products/bcu.php On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:15:44PM -0400, Theodore Knab wrote: > We have the Etinc bandwidth manag

Re: HELP Need to setup bandwidth shaping box ...Got tough boss.

2003-06-09 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Just saw this box demo'ed in action and it is really slick... the price listed is list price, and I hear you can get them for ~1900 -- This box is a dedicated bandwidth control box and runs an embedded OS that seems to be VERY stable.. http://www.ydi.com/products/bcu.php On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 a

Re: HELP Need to setup bandwidth shaping box ...Got tough boss.

2003-06-09 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Just saw this box demo'ed in action and it is really slick... the price listed is list price, and I hear you can get them for ~1900 -- This box is a dedicated bandwidth control box and runs an embedded OS that seems to be VERY stable.. http://www.ydi.com/products/bcu.php On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 a

Re: Squid-cache Problem

2003-01-16 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Truncating all your emails? On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 01:59:22PM +, Enrique Dorantes wrote: >Hi everybody. > > I have a problem with my squid. It is a transparent proxy and it is > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >

Re: best NIC Speed

2003-01-09 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Anything with a true tulip chipset should work amazingly well for you, it is a proven chipset with a great track history. Hell, Donald Becker recommends it, thats enuf for me! On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:08:40PM -0600, Shawn Wallbridge wrote: > Intel > > If you need 100Mb, then the Pro/100.

Re: Mailserver with accounts seperated from unix-accounts

2001-09-24 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
You may want to check out the qmail+vmailmgr combination? www.qmail.org www.vmailmgr.org On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Erik Tews wrote: > Hi > > I am currently setting up a debian-box for my school which should act as > a mailserver too. I would like to have the mail-accounts seperated from > the nor

Re: ISP status monitoring.

2001-08-02 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
MRTG with mods pathchar mon (the program) On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Robb Kidd wrote: > I'm giving this a whirl on debian-isp as I figure its subscribers have > the most experience with this. I'm looking into setuping up network > monitoring on one of my home boxes to keep my cable ISP (Cox/Road

Re: routing routable IPs over non-routable IPs

2001-05-20 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Yes, many people do it with ciscos all the time, linux should be no different. However, there are a couple of downsides (speaking from cisco experience only) It hurts for troubleshooting... you cant trace/ping directly to an interface, only a net... On Mon, 21 May 2001, Jeremy Lunn wrote: > I kn

Re: routing routable IPs over non-routable IPs

2001-05-20 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Yes, many people do it with ciscos all the time, linux should be no different. However, there are a couple of downsides (speaking from cisco experience only) It hurts for troubleshooting... you cant trace/ping directly to an interface, only a net... On Mon, 21 May 2001, Jeremy Lunn wrote: > I k

Proper way to add a virtual host?

2001-03-16 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Back in the 2.0.XX days of the kernel, i used to add virtual hosts in the following fashion, and it worked beautiful. I could even add hosts out of a diff subnet then the primary interface. It would take and send traffic out on the same virtual interface it came in on. Somehow, between 2.0.XX and

Proper way to add a virtual host?

2001-03-16 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Back in the 2.0.XX days of the kernel, i used to add virtual hosts in the following fashion, and it worked beautiful. I could even add hosts out of a diff subnet then the primary interface. It would take and send traffic out on the same virtual interface it came in on. Somehow, between 2.0.XX an

Re: Log top or similar information

2001-02-01 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, David Lynn wrote: | > You might find the output of `vmstat' to be a bit more friendly. | | Yes, friendly, but it doesn't break down information by processes. We | would like to know what is eating our memory/cpu and what processes | aren't getting what they need. | | --Davi

Re: Strange entry in syslog

2001-01-26 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
The worm is called RAMEN, search for it and it might turn up some info. I'm not sure what the worm does or how it works... but at least it will help if you search for the right worm :) On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Marek L. Kozak wrote: | Some told me it might be e worm called Raven, but it attacks some

Re: Web mail system for Qmail

2001-01-20 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
What about TWiG?? It has working IMAP support, and is very fully featured. On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: | I´m using acmemail, which provides all of your requirements but the | virtualdomains. But AFAIR it´s development version, sparkle, does. | | Have a look at http://www.astr

Re: identd + SOCKS

2001-01-10 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Marcin Owsiany wrote: | Hmm.. this is worth a look, then. I had thought that such | programs are designed for one person, i.e. installation on a | user's account. | | Will the identd daemon somehow communicate with the bounce | proxy so that it will return an IP or a hostnam

Re: identd + SOCKS

2001-01-09 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Marcin Owsiany wrote: | > There exists many irc "bounce" programs that may accomplish what you | > need. Such as ezbounce, bnc, etc. | | But do they work with ident? Unfortunately running such a | bounce program for each of the client box is not an option for | me. | | regar

Re: identd + SOCKS

2001-01-09 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Marcin Owsiany wrote: | Too bad. Looks like i'll need to do some coding, unless there | exists something I could use instead of SOCKS, like an IRC | proxy with an builtin ident server? | | thanks, | | Marcin There exists many irc "bounce" programs that may accomplish what y

Re: DSL

2001-01-08 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: | I think there's a problem with this. Even if you get DSL from | different providers, chances are good that they're using the same | copper and DSLAM. Hence the redundancy isn't ... | | Cheers, Most of the failures we've seen with DSL is mainly from

Re: DSL

2001-01-08 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Andy Bastien wrote: | Failing a hardware solution, it would be an easy matter to run a | script on the Linux box that will probe the active line to see if it's | up. If it's not, do the routing commands to route through the backup | line. Exactly, have multiple gateways usin

Re: DSL

2001-01-08 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Jeremy Lunn wrote: | On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:11:06AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > lack of reliability in DSL, so he asked if you could get 2 DSL lines | > and have one failover to the other. Huh... a client with a clue! My | | Well, it might be different overseas (m

Re: ISP Billing Software

2000-09-12 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, J-Mag Guthrie wrote: | I'm concerned because of my unfamiliarity with Windows. How much Windows | do I need to know to make this puppy work? (I really do *not* know | Windows). | It should be trivial for you to learn. Let me put it this way, you've talked to (l)users of an I

Re: ISP Billing Software

2000-09-12 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, J-Mag Guthrie wrote: | I'm concerned because of my unfamiliarity with Windows. How much Windows | do I need to know to make this puppy work? (I really do *not* know | Windows). | It should be trivial for you to learn. Let me put it this way, you've talked to (l)users of an

Re: ISP Billing Software

2000-09-11 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
You should probably join inet-access mailing list as well. There is always good ISP (non-debian-specific) info there. http://www.portia.com/matt/ISP/inet-access.html You might want to look into a package called freeside. Opensource perl based billing. Sounds to be exactly what you want... http

Re: ISP Billing Software

2000-09-11 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
You should probably join inet-access mailing list as well. There is always good ISP (non-debian-specific) info there. http://www.portia.com/matt/ISP/inet-access.html You might want to look into a package called freeside. Opensource perl based billing. Sounds to be exactly what you want... htt

Re: traffic shaping

2000-09-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Last i heard, it wasnt very stable, and was flakey... The only 'software' solution that i've seen referred to in a good tone, would be freebsd's implementation. I dont recall the name, but a quick search on deja should yield positive results. Keep in mind, i havent researched this topic for a ful

Re: traffic shaping

2000-09-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Last i heard, it wasnt very stable, and was flakey... The only 'software' solution that i've seen referred to in a good tone, would be freebsd's implementation. I dont recall the name, but a quick search on deja should yield positive results. Keep in mind, i havent researched this topic for a fu

Re: Hardware RAID

2000-09-04 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
I must have missed this the first time around, but we just went with hardware raid solution as well. We installed the ICP-Vortex card, we paid about $590 or so for it from www.thelinuxstore.com with 32MB of RAM. It takes standard PC100 SDRAM. The card comes with linux drivers, and linux software s

Re: Hardware RAID

2000-09-04 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
I must have missed this the first time around, but we just went with hardware raid solution as well. We installed the ICP-Vortex card, we paid about $590 or so for it from www.thelinuxstore.com with 32MB of RAM. It takes standard PC100 SDRAM. The card comes with linux drivers, and linux software

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Not to mention that unless you are having MILD traffic through the squid box, you probably want a box dedicated to just that. On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote: | | Your biggest potential hog is squid. It maintains data structures in | memory and their size grows with your cache si

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Erik, linux will always use almost 100% of the memory (unless you have a BUTTLOAD of extra (ie. 512MB RAM)) for buffers and things like that. For example: skank:~# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 62956 61460 1496 15432

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Not to mention that unless you are having MILD traffic through the squid box, you probably want a box dedicated to just that. On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote: | | Your biggest potential hog is squid. It maintains data structures in | memory and their size grows with your cache s

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Erik, linux will always use almost 100% of the memory (unless you have a BUTTLOAD of extra (ie. 512MB RAM)) for buffers and things like that. For example: skank:~# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 62956 61460 1496 15432

Re: AMD Duron CPU & Debian

2000-08-21 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Art Sackett wrote: | No problems with the ASUS K7M that I've seen. I've got a few around | here running the K7M with Athlons, and the previously problematic | Adaptec AHA2940-U2W SCSI host adapters, along with the 3Com 3C905C | NICs that some folks have had problems with (owin

Re: AMD Duron CPU & Debian

2000-08-21 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Art Sackett wrote: | No problems with the ASUS K7M that I've seen. I've got a few around | here running the K7M with Athlons, and the previously problematic | Adaptec AHA2940-U2W SCSI host adapters, along with the 3Com 3C905C | NICs that some folks have had problems with (owi

Re: Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-18 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Gene, you need to be a little bit more specific. It sounds like you might be getting in a little over your head. You should probably do a little bit of reading before you go changing alot of stuff around, or you could have some pissed off customers to deal with... i know how much that sucks, trus

Re: Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-18 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Gene, i dont think this is possible. There may be some tricks you can do with ipchains to forward packets from one port to another IP/port and get the job done, but it would probably be a kludge. You could also do this on your cisco, kinda like redirecting all traffic through the router to a squid

Re: Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-18 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Gene, you need to be a little bit more specific. It sounds like you might be getting in a little over your head. You should probably do a little bit of reading before you go changing alot of stuff around, or you could have some pissed off customers to deal with... i know how much that sucks, tru

Re: Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-18 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Gene, i dont think this is possible. There may be some tricks you can do with ipchains to forward packets from one port to another IP/port and get the job done, but it would probably be a kludge. You could also do this on your cisco, kinda like redirecting all traffic through the router to a squi

Re: What is a good HUB / SWITCH??

2000-08-10 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Some good switches are: HP Procurve 2424M Cisco 2924XL Bay Networks 350T (all managed, all 10/100, and modestly priced for what you get) On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, ridgey wrote: | We are having alot of trouble with cheaper ( around $700 AU ) hubs, what do | you recommend ? as a good hub / switch for

Re: What is a good HUB / SWITCH??

2000-08-10 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Some good switches are: HP Procurve 2424M Cisco 2924XL Bay Networks 350T (all managed, all 10/100, and modestly priced for what you get) On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, ridgey wrote: | We are having alot of trouble with cheaper ( around $700 AU ) hubs, what do | you recommend ? as a good hub / switch fo

Re: Qmail Environment

2000-08-06 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Florian Lohoff wrote: | > Just wanted to know if there was a Debian way of installing qmail for a | > large ISP environment :) I haven´t seemed to found any info on | > partitioning recomendations, and such and such... Any ideas ? | | The lack of answers might be due to a IMHO

Re: Qmail Environment

2000-08-06 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Florian Lohoff wrote: | > Just wanted to know if there was a Debian way of installing qmail for a | > large ISP environment :) I haven´t seemed to found any info on | > partitioning recomendations, and such and such... Any ideas ? | | The lack of answers might be due to a IMH

Re: Strange Qmail problem...

2000-07-19 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Did you use maildirmake on the maildir? Aside from that, a quick post to the qmail list is probably a better idea then here. On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, parlin imanuel wrote: | dear all, | i've just installed qmail and set it to use maildir. | but mail for alias cannot be delivered. | maillog tells so

Re: Strange Qmail problem...

2000-07-18 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Did you use maildirmake on the maildir? Aside from that, a quick post to the qmail list is probably a better idea then here. On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, parlin imanuel wrote: | dear all, | i've just installed qmail and set it to use maildir. | but mail for alias cannot be delivered. | maillog tells s

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Huh? Western Digitals drive test utility will run on a drive regardless of what data is contained. It's harmless, it will not mess with the partion. On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Chris Wagner wrote: | Heheh, there is NO WAY in HELL I would run wdc on an ext2 partition. :) -- ___ _ __

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Depending on the mfgr of the drive, you should be able to boot off a floppy and run a utility to 'check' the drive for errors. WD has this and requires some users to run the util and report an error code before RMA... check with your drive mfgr for their policy. On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Chris Wagner

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Huh? Western Digitals drive test utility will run on a drive regardless of what data is contained. It's harmless, it will not mess with the partion. On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Chris Wagner wrote: | Heheh, there is NO WAY in HELL I would run wdc on an ext2 partition. :) -- ___ _ __

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Depending on the mfgr of the drive, you should be able to boot off a floppy and run a utility to 'check' the drive for errors. WD has this and requires some users to run the util and report an error code before RMA... check with your drive mfgr for their policy. On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Chris Wagner

Re: commercial offerings anyone

2000-07-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Wed, 5 Jul 100, Allen Ahoffman wrote: | Hello: | Does anyone have Debian based commercial ofrerings of this kind: | | 1. Terminal server for connecting one box to many serial devices such as | routers, switches, other terminal servers for serial connectivity | when network is down. | |

Re: commercial offerings anyone

2000-07-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Wed, 5 Jul 100, Allen Ahoffman wrote: | Hello: | Does anyone have Debian based commercial ofrerings of this kind: | | 1. Terminal server for connecting one box to many serial devices such as | routers, switches, other terminal servers for serial connectivity | when network is down. |

Re: dns server

2000-05-09 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
I have no experience with wemin either :) On Tue, 9 May 2000, Kim Lundgren wrote: >Could something like Webmin ( http://www.webmin.com/ ) do the trick? > >// Kim Lundgren ___ _ __ _ __ /___ ___ /__ John Gonzalez/Net.Tech __ __ \ __

RE: Installing Debian on a RAIDed partition

2000-05-09 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Robert H. Clugston wrote: >Whatever.. here's the instructions on how to load a raid partition as >root... > >http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/howto/Root-RAID-HOWTO.html > > >Yes. You cannot boot to a raid partition. One, lilo cant read a RAID >partition, and the 'raid' drivers hav

Re: dns server

2000-05-09 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
There might be web interfaces for RaQ products that allow you to do this, and it might be possible to port them to x86 linux? I have never used a raq, nor am i familiar with wether their software is even open source. On Tue, 9 May 2000, mediagenic services wrote: >Hi, > >i am searching for a dns

Re: Installing Debian on a RAIDed partition

2000-05-08 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Yes. You cannot boot to a raid partition. One, lilo cant read a RAID partition, and the 'raid' drivers havent been loaded yet. You will either need to have the / or more specifically /boot be on a NON raid partition (ie. floppy) or compile special tools to boot raid partitions. Someone has develope

Re: virtual ip's

2000-05-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
As stated earlier, we are running the 2.0.X tree on this machine. There is absolutely no module support compiled into this kernel either. Besides, the machine routinely has uptimes in the 250+ day period, and has over 60 virtual interfaces. All without a single hiccup. (If it aint broke, dont fix

Re: virtual ip's

2000-05-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
We run 2.0.X tree still, but the command we use is as follows: ifconfig eth0:22 206.29.139.35 broadcast 206.29.139.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 route add -host 206.29.139.35 dev eth0:22 On Fri, 5 May 2000, Ricardo Kustner wrote: >Hi, > >On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 12:27:05PM -0500, Wayne Sitton wr

Re: grepping in ps output

2000-04-28 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Dont reinvent the wheel. With that said, here are some pointers :) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(23/ttyp2)(04:26pm:04/28/00)- ($:~)- ps auxwww | grep q[m]ail qmaill1482 0.0 0.2 848 144 ? S Jan 24 1:54 splogger qmail qmailq1485 0.0 0.1 84068 ? S Jan 24 0:57 qmail-clean qmail

Re: virtual e-mail recommendations,

2000-04-20 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Well, i have a perfect solution for you. We are running it for our customers emails. The system is SUPER SIMPLE, and has been working FLAWLESSLY. It does involve, qmail though, and vmailmgrd. Uses maildir which is more efficient as well.. Here are the relevant info: qmail: http://www.qmail.org

RE: pop3 server....

2000-04-20 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Robert H. Clugston wrote: >I thought cucipop was more popular because it does SQL connections? > I'm sure there is a percentage of people that use SQL, but it's probably very small. I think more people are concerned with performance and reliability. I could be wrong tho.

Re: pop3 server....

2000-04-19 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Chris Wagner wrote: >At 10:10 AM 4/19/00 +0200, Christian Jannesson wrote: >>Whats so speciall about cucipop? I use qpopper and i havent had any >>trouble with it. > >It's more secure than other poppers. I dont honestly think EITHER package has been audited. It's true, that c

Re: Making Debian Recognize 256 Meg of Ram

2000-04-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
man lilo.conf It's a switch you need to put in your /etc/lilo.conf to get the machine to recognize >64 mb RAM. On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Wilson Tuma wrote: > >Hi List > >Would somebody be kind enough to tell me how to make my machine recognize >256Meg of RAM. > >When I added the ram and did top and di

Re: Firewalling

2000-03-30 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
For one, if you are planning on firewalling the router, your firewall becomes your router. You are going to have to have some type of WAN interface installed on your firewall in order to even have your network work. Secondly, you should be able to secure a cisco router from remote attack. You can

Re: Ip-fowarding

2000-02-27 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
You dont want IP-Forwarding, you want: http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/howto/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html or NAT http://www.csn.tu-chemnitz.de/HyperNews/get/linux-ip-nat.html ftp://post.tepkom.ru/pub/vol2/Linux/docs/ ftp://ftp.tux.org/people/alexey-kuznetsov/ip-routing/ http://www.compendium.com.ar/p