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Any way to "Kick" a TCP connection back into life?
by Steve Fosdick 20 Aug '01

20 Aug '01

Today I had a problem when I lost network connectivity with an open TCP connecting (doing an FTP transfer). When network connectivity was restored, the TCP connection remained connected, but no data was being transmitted or received. Openning a new connection (using FTP reget) caused data transfer to recommence so there was clearly no problem talking to the remote machine. I have also had similar experience when fetching a page or image with HTTP will stall, but aborting the transfer and reloading works quickly. What I suspect is happenning here is that as a bunch or re-transmissions fail, TCP backs off for longer and longer before re-tranmitting and gets to the point that the time being waited is ridiculously long. What I would like to be able to go, both to test this theory and hopefully solve the problem of it happening, is to reset the backoff timer so it goes back to re-transmitting quickly. Does anyone now if there is way to do this on Linux? Steve.

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I've got a really old laptop
by Steve Kuo 20 Aug '01

20 Aug '01

I've got a really old laptop that I'm would like to find a verison of Linux (with X-windows preferably) for. Specs: 486DX33 4MB RAM B&W Screen 120Mb HDD It doesn't have to fit on disks, I can connect the 486 to an external zipdrive. ===== --------------- Steve Kuo "Windows Multitasking - Crash several programs at once, no waiting" ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie

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Re: [Alug] I've got a really old laptop
by MJ Ray 20 Aug '01

20 Aug '01

Steve Kuo <drakioned(a)yahoo.co.uk> writes: > 486DX33 4MB RAM B&W Screen 120Mb HDD You may be able to get X on to it, but it will swap like crazy if you try to do much with it. At the very least, you will need to be *very* light on the memory usage. Emacs and VIM under X are out of the question ;-)

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Re: [Alug] The web site
by MJ Ray 19 Aug '01

19 Aug '01

Neill Newman <neill(a)entora.co.uk> writes: > Mark et al, I know that there is a lot to do, and I dont have time to do > any right now, but can I make a suggestion.. > Can the website be tested with the w3 vaildator (validator.w3.org). This > makes sure it is proper html, at the moment there are a dozen or so > errors ;(.. Don't exaggerate: there were four errors. It seems that sablotron is somewhat more primitive than luminas's tools and produces HTML 4.01 (*yuk!*) instead. One correction later, there are now no errors, at least in transitional. It shouldn't be too much work to make it pass strict if it's really needed, but that can wait a bit.

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Is this a FAQ? (Books)
by MJ Ray 19 Aug '01

19 Aug '01

David, why don't you write a page about the various book things, ie the library system and the discount deals? This could then be linked into the FAQ "What does ALUG do?"... Also, the meetings part of that answer should link to the meetings page and the mailing lists/IRC bit to the "Join us" page. But I'll graciously let someone else add them ;-) Thanks!

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Re: [Alug] SSH/SCP No Password
by MJ Ray 19 Aug '01

19 Aug '01

Steve Fosdick <fozzy(a)pelvoux.demon.co.uk> writes: > If it doesn't work when you set it up, try the -d option on the server > end to get a debug log from it which will tell what types of > authenciation it is trying and why they fail. [...] Any reason why that's better than doing -v on the client end? Is it really worth annoying all the users on the server? ;-)

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Re: [Alug] SSH/SCP No Password
by MJ Ray 19 Aug '01

19 Aug '01

"D" <dsc(a)clara.net> writes: > Anyone ever got this to work? Not sat down and tried yet but a guy I was > talking to yesterday said its harder then it looks, surely you just need the > host keys etc.. and your away. I have eval $(ssh-agent) quite early in my .xsession file. This makes sure everything in my X session knows where to find the key manager. Then using ssh-add lets me add keys to it. You generate ssh keys with ssh-keygen and have to copy the right one to the target machine's $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys file. Other than that, it's fairly simple... ask questions if you want more than the manual pages say. I even have a VPN using slip over ssh, for when I need to appear to be on an internal network somewhere.

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Re: [Alug] The web site
by MJ Ray 19 Aug '01

19 Aug '01

Within 5 minutes or so of this being sent, there should be something approaching a new-look ALUG website. Start the complaints now, please. ;-)

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Re: [Alug] Next Meet
by David Freeman 19 Aug '01

19 Aug '01

On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 00:22:15 +0100 "John Woodard" wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: alug-admin(a)stu.uea.ac.uk [mailto:alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk]On > > Behalf Of MJ Ray > > Sent: 17 August 2001 23:04 > > To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > > Subject: Re: [Alug] Next Meet > > > > Adam Bower <abower(a)thebowery.co.uk> writes: > > > > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Steve Kuo wrote: > > > > I second the idea at the UEA... [...] living on campus [...] > > > Was that you just volunteering to book the room etc. then? > > > > My thoughts exactly! Seriously: I am leaving UEA and will not be able > > to book them any more, but I may still be lurking enough to be useful > > for this meeting, so it would be an ideal time to hand over organising > > UEA meetings to someone else. > > > > Steve, are you up for this? > > If we can't book the UEA I can host at Syleham if needed. BJ, Would I be right in thinking that you live a few hundred yards from Sylham? Would I also be right in thinking you have either Home highway/ISDN/unmetered web access of some kind? If so for the next meeting we could put in a small wireless link and have a network connection for the first time at Syleham! Thanks D PS can you open the bar as well? > Cheers, > BJ > > > _______________________________________________ > alug, the Anglian Linux User Group list > Send list replies to alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/listinfo/alug > See the website for instructions on digest or unsub! -- "Your house sounds like a fire hazard" Peter Clarke

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Re: [Alug] Highly regulalar inquiries
by MJ Ray 19 Aug '01

19 Aug '01

Adam Bower <abower(a)thebowery.co.uk> writes: > It got edited to read as follows: Mea culpa. If it wasn't marked as a quote, I mangled it and left Adam's byline on it. Mooohahahaha.... Seriously, I was sent an incomplete FAQ and so I marked it up and tried to get the English running smoothly. If I did anything too wrong, I'm sure Adam will switch it back in the next few days and I apologise profusely. Please... I've done the first few revisions of the web site and I'll try to help out in future... but it needs YOU to keep it going now.

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