Suramya Tomar ([62]suramya from suramya.com)

   Hi,

   This is a cool tip. For people who are too lazy to do all the work (like me)
   they can download a program called the Ultimate Boot CD which allows you to
   run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives.

   For  information  on  the  CD  and  the  tools included with it visit:
   [63]http://www.ultimatebootcd.com. You can download it from the above site
   or from my mirror at: [64]http://mirror.suramya.com.

   The site also has instructions on how to customize the CD for your specific
   needs.

   Hope you all find it as useful as I do.

   - Suramya
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Local Eth/Internet PPP can work together

   Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:57:17 -0500
   Jack Sprat ([65]trashcan from chilitech.com)

   On RedHat/Fedora, if only the subnet your computer is part of needs to be
   accessed over the LAN card, I believe this simple trick will work. If not,
   it is easy to undo.

   On set up of the network, simply do not enter an IP for the gateway. If this
   is already configured then shut down your network (/etc/rc.d/init/.d/network
   stop) and remove the "GATEWAY" line from
   /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Restart your network and the
   "route" command should show no default gateway, but also a route via eth0 to
   the subnet your computer is on. Something like : 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0
   U 0 0 0 eth0

   kppp should then happily create a default route to ppp0 when executed.

   Ron H.

     No need to shut it down, just do: 

     route del default gw  

     You'll need to be root to do it. -- Thomas Adam
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Sometimes it's not the website

   Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:31:03 -0800
   Mike Orr ([66]Linux Gazette Editor)
   Question by Raj Shekhar (rajshekhar3007 from yahoo.co.in)

   I'm still not seeing it there. The entries are alphabetical and go from
   "Firebird Modern" directly to "Lush", and I can't find "LittleFirebird" on
   the page anywhere. 

     after some poking around... -- Heather

   This is really strange. I checked again and I can see LittleFirebird theme.
   I asked other people to check it and they could not find it either. 

   No idea why this is happening. I am on broadband connection. My ISP (Sify
   broadband) has put a LAN in the neighbourhood and we connect through a
   proxy server. Do you think this could be an issue with the cache ? (The
   other people I asked to check were not part of the ISP's LAN) 

     [Mike] Either your ISP is not updating the page properly, or your browser
     isn't. I assume you've done shift-reload, restarted the browser, or tried
     a  different browser. Sometimes the browser cache can be subtle and
     stubborn, although I've had less problems with that since I stopped using
     Netscape 4. If your ISP has a malfunctioning proxy server, I guess there's
     nothing you can do except tell them to fix it.
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Securing a dial in?

   Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:45:13 -0400
   John Karns ([67]The LG Answer Gang)
   Question by George Morgan (George_Morgan from sra.com)

   Hello answer guy, 

   I need to be able to secure an external modem that has been connect to a
   Solaris box to protect against unauthorized calls.. What I mean is that I
   want to be able to allow people to connect to the box based purely on the
   phone number they are calling from. Is there a way on the modem to only
   allow certain calls to go through while rejecting all other calls? 

   Thanks, 

   George 

     [John     Karns]    See    the    "mgetty"    open    source    pkg
     ([68]http://www.google.com/linux for it). It offers this capability,
     provided that your modem line has caller id. The pkg includes pretty good
     documentation as well as good example cfg files.
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