May 2004 - Roundtable

MUUG Meeting, May 11, 7:30PM -- Redundant Firewalls with OpenBSD 3.5
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 04 May '04

04 May '04

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <c78g38$5cr$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> ------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux) The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 11. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Redundant Firewalls with OpenBSD 3.5's CARP and pfsync Shawn Wallbridge will discuss setting up redundant firewalls with CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) and pfsync, which are new features of OpenBSD 3.5. He will also discuss other uses for CARP. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ********************************************************************** Please note our new meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15 PM, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30 PM. Don't be late, or you may not get in. Limited parking is available for free on the street, or in a lot across Ellice from IBM, for $1.00 for the evening. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $2.00 for the evening. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Also note that MUUG maintains two mailing lists, called "muug-announce" and "roundtable". If you're not already on these lists, we encourage you to subscribe now: http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/ The "muug-announce" list is used for monthly meeting announcements (such as this one) as well as other important announcements of interest to MUUG members. The "rountable" list is meant to be a forum for follow-ups to topics discussed at the meetings, or for round-table-style discussion on other topics that come up between meetings. Of course, for this to be effective, we need to reach a certain critical mass. So, please subscribe, and stay involved! -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609 ------ End of Forwarded Article

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Linux and Linksys router WRT54g
by Bill Reid 03 May '04

03 May '04

I tried this out and it is pretty slick. Finally a low end router which has a great CLI interface. Linksys has also put up the source that they used to build the image. I am running the latest Linksys image 2.02.7 http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g-linux.html Enjoy, Bill

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previous post about converting .torrent to .iso
by Mel Seder 02 May '04

02 May '04

The URL I downloaded was; [mel@p4 FC2-test3-binary-i386]$ btdownloadcurses.py --url http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/FC2-test3-binary-i386.torrent That produced a directory in ~ automatically named "FC2-test3-binary-i386" containing the four .iso files and the MD5SUM. I ran md5sum --check MD5SUM and all was OK bittorrent rocks! ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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stopping bittorrent
by Mel Seder 02 May '04

02 May '04

Once my download is done can I terminate my program even though other bittorrent users may be downloading from me? ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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how do I convert a .torrent file to a .iso file
by Mel Seder 02 May '04

02 May '04

I went to fedora.rehat.com to get a CORE test file file. The file I downloaded had the description; Official Fedora Core 2 TEST3 binary iso images for i386 The file has a .torrent extension. How to I make it a .iso extension so I can try burning it to a DVD burner? ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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running bittorrent
by Mel Seder 02 May '04

02 May '04

I installed bittorrent without issue and copied the following from my terminal ====================================================================== [root@p4 Download]# rpm -Uvh bittorrent-3.3-0.fdr.2.fc1.noarch.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] package bittorrent-3.3-0.fdr.2.fc1 is already installed [root@p4 Download]# bittorrent bash: bittorrent: command not found [root@p4 Download]# su -l [root@p4 root]# bittorrent -bash: bittorrent: command not found [root@p4 root]# ======================================================================= I did a file search from / for bittorrent using the gui off the Red Hat start menu but found nothing. What do I have to do to run bittorrent? ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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IBM AS/400
by Raymond J. Henry 01 May '04

01 May '04

A while ago, I acquired an IBM AS/400 server that had just been taken out of service. The idea was to learn about them, and put it online for kicks. Things have changed. I don't have the time. All I know about it is that it has 16 4-GIG SCSI drives, and was in use up until the time I got it. This is the big-assed one, not the one that looks like an overgrown PC. Taking offers, cash or trades.

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