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"Congress"...
Sep. 2nd, 2000 06:25 pm...it is said, is the opposite of "progress." If so, I epitomize that august body right now.
The day started well enough, but went in the direction of the toilet real quickly, as it became clear that configuring the new Linux box was not as easy as I imagined it should be.
I had a bit of a problem getting the PPP interface to work, which should have told me something. A long time ago, when I was a true Linux newbie, the PPP interface well and truly intimidated me, but I have since then configured at least half a dozen Linux boxes to do the deed, and it doesn't intimidate me at all. Last night, though, something was not quite right; some strange IP address kept insinuating itself into the conversation between me and my ISP. Their tech support was remarkably content-free, and the best advice they could give me was to call back after the Labor Day weekend, when the guy who knows all this stuff is back from vacation.
At any rate, in true techie fashion, I fiddled with the thing so long that whatever it was that was preventing the connection gave up the ghost, and let me have my way.
Lucky me. Maybe. Scant seconds after connecting to the World, I had some script kiddie from Bellevue, Washington attaching himself to my ftp port. When I have more time, I may devote some attention to the little so-and-so, but there are bigger fish to fry...
No sooner could I link to my ISP than I noticed that the Linux box no longer could talk to the rest of the machines in my home network. Specifically, that old stand-by - ping - would not work with any local machine. I could ping the hell out of servers in Russia and South America, but couldn't get two machines at opposite ends of the same wire to acknowledge each others' existence. (That's right, not only could the Internet box not talk to the network machines, the machines - though they could ping each other all day long - all gave the Internet box the cold shoulder.)
At any rate, after way too much fiddling with configurations, everyone was playing nicely, pinging each other like good little computers.
One hurdle left:getting masquerading to work.
Masqueading is a technique by which one machine (the one connected to the Internet) manipulates things in such a way as to successfully represent several other machines to the rest of the world though one connection. When it works, it works well (assuming nobody's trying to download MP3 files,which tend to eat connection bandwidth). When it doesn't...well, it's frustrating.
No opportunity to catch up with friends today...gotta get this mess straightened out!
Cheers...
The day started well enough, but went in the direction of the toilet real quickly, as it became clear that configuring the new Linux box was not as easy as I imagined it should be.
I had a bit of a problem getting the PPP interface to work, which should have told me something. A long time ago, when I was a true Linux newbie, the PPP interface well and truly intimidated me, but I have since then configured at least half a dozen Linux boxes to do the deed, and it doesn't intimidate me at all. Last night, though, something was not quite right; some strange IP address kept insinuating itself into the conversation between me and my ISP. Their tech support was remarkably content-free, and the best advice they could give me was to call back after the Labor Day weekend, when the guy who knows all this stuff is back from vacation.
At any rate, in true techie fashion, I fiddled with the thing so long that whatever it was that was preventing the connection gave up the ghost, and let me have my way.
Lucky me. Maybe. Scant seconds after connecting to the World, I had some script kiddie from Bellevue, Washington attaching himself to my ftp port. When I have more time, I may devote some attention to the little so-and-so, but there are bigger fish to fry...
No sooner could I link to my ISP than I noticed that the Linux box no longer could talk to the rest of the machines in my home network. Specifically, that old stand-by - ping - would not work with any local machine. I could ping the hell out of servers in Russia and South America, but couldn't get two machines at opposite ends of the same wire to acknowledge each others' existence. (That's right, not only could the Internet box not talk to the network machines, the machines - though they could ping each other all day long - all gave the Internet box the cold shoulder.)
At any rate, after way too much fiddling with configurations, everyone was playing nicely, pinging each other like good little computers.
One hurdle left:getting masquerading to work.
Masqueading is a technique by which one machine (the one connected to the Internet) manipulates things in such a way as to successfully represent several other machines to the rest of the world though one connection. When it works, it works well (assuming nobody's trying to download MP3 files,which tend to eat connection bandwidth). When it doesn't...well, it's frustrating.
No opportunity to catch up with friends today...gotta get this mess straightened out!
Cheers...
