ppp help

1999-02-26 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
Hello, I'm a 1.5 debian-year old, and I'm on my second round of debian installs. I recently acquired a PII-266 motherboard, and built it into a second machine. Naturally, withing a couple of weeks, I had to network my two machines, and thanks to a kind, knowledgeable friend, I have my own LAN. Ho

Re: My new project (repost)

1997-12-04 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
--- Keith Holler wrote: I agree with you 100%... I sat on a tech support line for 2 hours at a cost of $ 35 for networking help in Windows 95. After all of that I ended up fixing the configuration problem in my networking myself. They tried to convince me it was my new 200 MMX processor and board

Philosophical question

1997-12-04 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
Hi all, I guess this doesn't pertain specifically to Debian, but I have a philosophical question about software upgrades, and I just thought I would take a poll to see what Joe Debian User (or Jane Debian-User) thinks... So I bought a new machine in October, and from the outset I wanted to

Re: Mirror?

1997-12-01 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
--- You wrote: I have been getting REALLY slow transfer rates on the Debian FTP site (like 0.22k/s) when I ussualy get AT LEAEST around 1.8K/s and seems how I screwed up and downloaded the wrong stuff I have to mirror most of the msdos-i386 branch to my HD. Does anybody know of any reliable mirorr

Re: mailing list/newsgroup loopback?

1997-11-30 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
--- You wrote: Hi, I'm suddenly getting duplicates from debian-user through a [EMAIL PROTECTED] gateway to the linux.debian.user news group. Someone somewhere screw something up?? --- end of quote --- Yes, I am noticing some duplicate messages. I am getting copies of messages I sent again a

Re: yet another ppp problem

1997-11-27 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
--- You wrote: f you wish to use your ppp interface for most packets and your ethernet card for only a few, put something like the following in /etc/ppp/ip-up: /sbin/route del default /sbin/route add default ppp0 /sbin/route add 137.22.96.0 netmask 255.255.240 eth0 (The number after netmask shoul

Re: yet another ppp problem

1997-11-26 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
--- Alex Yukhimets wrote: Great! You *did* get ppp connection! Your problem is that you have to set up your routing table properly in /etc/ppp/ip-up (on connection) and /etc/ppp/ip-down (on disconnect) using "route". And remove defaultroute option from /etc/ppp.options_out - you already have defau

Re: yet another ppp problem

1997-11-26 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
--- You wrote: > Hello, > I am a new debian user. I have had my system running for about a month > now. I am trying to set up ppp so that I can dial in to school from my home. > I don't really know what I am doing, so like any good newbie, I poured over the > /usr/doc and /usr/doc/HOWTO dir

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
--- You wrote: > Hi Clay. > > 1) Yes, Debian can co-exist with Win95. Using something called LILO( > Linux Loader ), it can become your boot manager, which will allow you > boot multiple OS's. In my experience this works, but not nicely. You have to install Win95 first, and when it gets itselft

yet another ppp problem

1997-11-26 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
Hello, I am a new debian user. I have had my system running for about a month now. I am trying to set up ppp so that I can dial in to school from my home. I don't really know what I am doing, so like any good newbie, I poured over the /usr/doc and /usr/doc/HOWTO directories. There seemed t