Re: Stupid question about SSH keys and security

2002-10-10 Thread Redhat Simon
The keys should also have a password incase of such problems and it is offered when you type ssh-keygen -t rsa. this is so much more secure as only a host with a recognised public key can even attempt to login. If you only allow rsa authentication, brute force attacks are no longer an option th

Re: high-end routing

2002-10-09 Thread Redhat Simon
I don't know the answer but I would suggest swapping out your network cards for different types and compiling the latest kernel 2.4.19 , as a good start the problem sounds like a software issue and its pretty much all in the kernel I used to have problems with rtl8139 cards in 2.2 and early 2.4 b

Re: RH 8.0.... What do you think...

2002-10-09 Thread Redhat Simon
First things first it is an 8.0 release. therefore much technology in it is new. Second Never upgrade anything and expect it to work, it is just torture. Backup and wipe the disk. OS's are very complex beasts and this is a next generation .0 release. It has loads of new stuff. The most reli

Re: Logcheck

2002-10-08 Thread Redhat Simon
You are blocking it already it looks like internet relay chat do you use this a chat program? Simon On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 17:22, ronald j roy wrote: > My logs are full of attempts from this address. How can I pull an > address to send a complaint? What are they trying to do? And is there > any w

Re: kernel version in RH7.2

2002-10-08 Thread Redhat Simon
try uname -a On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 04:25, Avinash Gowda wrote: > Hi: I am trying to find out the exact version the kernel in RH7.2. I have the >source RPMs for the kernel and they say it is 2.4.7-10. But when I install the rpm's >they are installed as 2.4.7. The question is which version does

Re: Need help in getting the cdrom to work.

2002-10-08 Thread Redhat Simon
try using /dev/hdc instead of /dev/cdrom also look at dmesg|grep CD and see what it says On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 17:52, Palanikumar Ramalingam wrote: > Dear redhat users: > I have a problem with my CDrom. I tried the following: > root@localhost kumar]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom > /mnt/cdrom >

Re: Terminal Emulation changes for 8.0?

2002-10-08 Thread Redhat Simon
Try typing export LANG=c and put it in your profile Simon On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 03:31, Don Garrett wrote: > I use SecureCRT to connect to my servers, and for vt100 emulation. > I've been doing variations for this for years, and with RedHat since > about 5.x. No problems. > > I have set

Re: DVD and DMA

2002-10-08 Thread Redhat Simon
apt-get on redhat? I guess this is unoffical do you know where I can get more info as its awesome Simon On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:42, Dale Kosan wrote: > Head over to http://freshrpms.net and download apt. The do a apt-get > update followed by apt-get upgrade. Then you can apt-get install xine,

Re: redundant ethernet cards

2002-10-08 Thread Redhat Simon
Try running a routing protocol and redundancy will be automatic even with RIP and you can have two different addresses Simon On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 00:08, Edwin Fung wrote: > Hi Nathalie, > > It is OK to use the same ethernet address on both cards. However, you > don't want them (i.e. the 2 et