Re: [Ilugc] Re: Sify Vs Linux -> Culprit Found

2008-08-30 Thread Mano
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Nahalingam N. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/8/25 Mano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >> If this is the case then this is some new kind DOS attack targetted at >> linux machines by infecting windows machine :-) !! > > > Please look at the link given below for the De

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Sify Vs Linux -> Culprit Found

2008-08-30 Thread Nahalingam N. K
2008/8/25 Mano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If this is the case then this is some new kind DOS attack targetted at > linux machines by infecting windows machine :-) !! Please look at the link given below for the Denial Of Service (DOS) attack in Linux kernel version 2.6. http://unix.freshmeat.net/a

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Sify Vs Linux -> Culprit Found

2008-08-25 Thread Krishna
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Mano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Really, I think you should change ISP! > Really a good piece of advice. I did it long back :). try ISPs where standard protocol is used for connect

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Sify Vs Linux -> Culprit Found

2008-08-25 Thread Mano
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All already done, we use dynamic IP. How do you know that the 'other' PC is not using a static IP? >That user's PC has virus which is disruption the network, but only Linux >machines cannot browse. If this is the cas

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Sify Vs Linux -> Culprit Found

2008-08-25 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
> > It seems to me like you have an IP conflict with that > particular > machine. I am guessing one of you hardcoded the IP while > other is using > dhcp which assigns the same IP. If that is the case, make > sure everyone > is using dynamic IP. Or, make sure the local IP addresses > are unique

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Sify Vs Linux -> Culprit Found

2008-08-25 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam Gopalan
You are correct. I have got my IP bypassed and now I use browser based login, so that problem was solved. The engineer was sitting here and monitored that when that particular user came online, my Linux stopped browsing, the moment that user logged off, my browsing became normal. Yes, sify connect

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Sify Vs Linux -> Culprit Found

2008-08-25 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
> I also faced similar problem with Sify, some years ago and > I dont think its > because of virus, the Sify client sends some information > about the OS to the > server. There in the server side they have an option to > enable the clients > to connect from windows by default, only if asked they wi

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Sify Vs Linux -> Culprit Found

2008-08-25 Thread Krishna
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam Gopalan < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > >> the connection. Could anyone please suggest if I need to change some >> policies regarding this? >> >> > This does not make sense at all.. Machine does not throw virus.. O

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Sify Vs Linux -> Culprit Found

2008-08-25 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam Gopalan
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: as most of you are aware of my ongoing problem with SIfy, today I got hold of an engineer to sit with me while the Internet was down. He found that one PC on the network was throwing virus and during that period the Internet blacks out on GNU/Linux machines while Windows a

[Ilugc] Re: Sify Vs Linux -> Culprit Found

2008-08-25 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
as most of you are aware of my ongoing problem with SIfy, today I got hold of an engineer to sit with me while the Internet was down. He found that one PC on the network was throwing virus and during that period the Internet blacks out on GNU/Linux machines while Windows are OK. He suggested, as