Can't subscribe to debian-mentors list

2002-03-29 Thread Matthew Twomey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there anything special you need to do to subscribe to this particular list? I send the email get the initial confirmation, reply to that - then nothing. Have I missed something simple? (I subscribe to various other Debian lists and has never seen t

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-28 Thread Matthew Twomey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Juhan Kundla wrote: > Ühel ilusal päeval [28.03.2002] kirjutas Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [Skip] > > > Again, on a shared media network (such as ethernet), you're not > > actually balancing the load at all. Only one n

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-28 Thread Matthew Twomey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > I think the kernel is applying IP routing rules to ethernet ARP replies. > > I don't think it should be doing this, because an ARP reply is clearly > > related to a physical ethernet address. ARP has nothing to do with IP > > networks, only wit

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-28 Thread Matthew Twomey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well the problem with these scenarios is you can't really do this: Put two (or more) interfaces in the same computer/router on the same multi-access (ethernet) network and assign them IPs in the same subnet. Historically, most platforms wouldn't allow

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-27 Thread Matthew Twomey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Switches don't really have collisions per-say - in an ethenet sense. Most consumer small swithes experience what's called head-of-line blocking, however. This is the case when a frame is queued to go out a particular port which is busy, behind this fra

Re: Cannot login using root password

2002-03-18 Thread Matthew Twomey
Unless you've left some backdoor for yourself (which would have been a bad idea anyway), you're left with booting from cdrom, or a resuce disk set. The basic procedure is as follows: 1. Boot up from some other media that has it's own root partition and get to a shell. I'm not sure what specifical