From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:37 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1880 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Tuesday 03 November 2009 Number 1880 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Networking Question. : Mike O'Connor 1 Re: Networking Question. : Dennis Nolan 2 Re: Networking Question. : Ed Durrant 2 Steps to prepare a USB key for FAT32 usage with eCS and WXP : Ed Durrant 3 Re: Steps to prepare a USB key for FAT32 usage with eCS and WXP : Mike O'Connor **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:20:40 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: Networking Question. Ed Durrant wrote: > Ed Durrant wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am trying to setup safefire links for OS/2 as a PPTP (VPN) client. >> The connection is coming up and authorisation is successful to my >> remote server (hotspotvpn dot com). >> >> When I check PPP0 (the port this software uses) it has an IP address >> assigned and all looks good. Lan0 is also stil up and has the same >> configuration and IP address as it had prior to me starting safefire >> links. >> >> The problem is that when I try to use a browser to go anywhere - >> either with a websites name or its IP address, I cannot connect. It's >> as if the traffic from the web browser is not getting directed to the >> VPN tunnel or if it is its not traversing the link. >> >> What decides which port the browser uses? Is there a command that >> would tell me? > Further info to this - I seem to be getting all packets on PPP0 > discarded on transmission - see the Netstat -n below: > > Interface 0 Ethernet-Csmacd > physical address 00173191f122 MTU 1500 > > speed 100000000 bits/sec > unicast packets received 10318 > broadcast packets received 1319 > total bytes received 8384452 > unicast packets sent 7874 > broadcast packets sent 22 > total bytes sent 1454104 > packets discarded on transmission 0 > packets discarded on reception 0 > received packets in error 0 > errors trying to send 0 > packets received in unsupported protocols 0 > > Interface 9 Software Loopback > physical address 000000000000 MTU 1536 > > speed 0 bits/sec > unicast packets received 0 > broadcast packets received 0 > total bytes received 0 > unicast packets sent 10923 > broadcast packets sent 0 > total bytes sent 577306 > packets discarded on transmission 0 > packets discarded on reception 0 > received packets in error 0 > errors trying to send 0 > packets received in unsupported protocols 0 > > Interface 10 Serial Interface ppp0 > physical address 000000000000 MTU 1442 > > speed 0 bits/sec > unicast packets received 0 > broadcast packets received 0 > total bytes received 0 > unicast packets sent 117383 > broadcast packets sent 0 > total bytes sent 165446584 > packets discarded on transmission 113203 > packets discarded on reception 0 > received packets in error 0 > errors trying to send 0 > packets received in unsupported protocols 0 Hi Ed, I guess if you turned on iptrace just before stating the application, then stopped it after a while, then formatted it to human readable, it should show up which ports are actually being used/discarded? Regards, Mike -- Failed the exam for -------------------- MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert -------------------- Personal replies to any of : mikeoc (at) internode (dot) on (dot) net mikeoc (at) austarnet (dot) com (dot) au majilok (at) gmail (dot) com [Please ZIP any attachments, other than GIF/JPG or plain-text] If you are missing a response from me - check Tweed Heads WX status at: http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR663.loop.shtml#skip -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:51:54 +1100 From: Dennis Nolan Subject: Re: Networking Question. Hi Ed I look at the error log in my adsl modem. It gives protocol, port and reason the packet was rejected. Depends upon your modem of course. Dennis Mike O'Connor wrote: > Ed Durrant wrote: >> Ed Durrant wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I am trying to setup safefire links for OS/2 as a PPTP (VPN) >>> client. The connection is coming up and authorisation is successful >>> to my remote server (hotspotvpn dot com). >>> >>> When I check PPP0 (the port this software uses) it has an IP >>> address assigned and all looks good. Lan0 is also stil up and has >>> the same configuration and IP address as it had prior to me starting >>> safefire links. >>> >>> The problem is that when I try to use a browser to go anywhere - >>> either with a websites name or its IP address, I cannot connect. >>> It's as if the traffic from the web browser is not getting directed >>> to the VPN tunnel or if it is its not traversing the link. >>> >>> What decides which port the browser uses? Is there a command that >>> would tell me? >> Further info to this - I seem to be getting all packets on PPP0 >> discarded on transmission - see the Netstat -n below: >> >> Interface 0 Ethernet-Csmacd >> physical address 00173191f122 MTU 1500 >> >> speed 100000000 bits/sec >> unicast packets received 10318 >> broadcast packets received 1319 >> total bytes received 8384452 >> unicast packets sent 7874 >> broadcast packets sent 22 >> total bytes sent 1454104 >> packets discarded on transmission 0 >> packets discarded on reception 0 >> received packets in error 0 >> errors trying to send 0 >> packets received in unsupported protocols 0 >> >> Interface 9 Software Loopback >> physical address 000000000000 MTU 1536 >> >> speed 0 bits/sec >> unicast packets received 0 >> broadcast packets received 0 >> total bytes received 0 >> unicast packets sent 10923 >> broadcast packets sent 0 >> total bytes sent 577306 >> packets discarded on transmission 0 >> packets discarded on reception 0 >> received packets in error 0 >> errors trying to send 0 >> packets received in unsupported protocols 0 >> >> Interface 10 Serial Interface ppp0 >> physical address 000000000000 MTU 1442 >> >> speed 0 bits/sec >> unicast packets received 0 >> broadcast packets received 0 >> total bytes received 0 >> unicast packets sent 117383 >> broadcast packets sent 0 >> total bytes sent 165446584 >> packets discarded on transmission 113203 >> packets discarded on reception 0 >> received packets in error 0 >> errors trying to send 0 >> packets received in unsupported protocols 0 > > Hi Ed, > > I guess if you turned on iptrace just before stating the application, > then stopped it after a while, then formatted it to human readable, it > should show up which ports are actually being used/discarded? > > Regards, > Mike > -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:02:53 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Networking Question. It turns out the rejection was from the software itself as I can access the VPN from 2 other (windoze) PCs on the LAN. It helped when I added the Safefire MAC driver (Doh! - but the documentation is so volumous that it's hard to get an idea how things are supposed to be setup). So I have no rejections now - but also no working data path. Cheers/2 Ed. Dennis Nolan wrote: > Hi Ed > > I look at the error log in my adsl modem. It gives protocol, port and > reason the packet was rejected. > > Depends upon your modem of course. > > Dennis > > > Mike O'Connor wrote: >> Ed Durrant wrote: >>> Ed Durrant wrote: >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> I am trying to setup safefire links for OS/2 as a PPTP (VPN) >>>> client. The connection is coming up and authorisation is successful >>>> to my remote server (hotspotvpn dot com). >>>> >>>> When I check PPP0 (the port this software uses) it has an IP >>>> address assigned and all looks good. Lan0 is also stil up and has >>>> the same configuration and IP address as it had prior to me >>>> starting safefire links. >>>> >>>> The problem is that when I try to use a browser to go anywhere - >>>> either with a websites name or its IP address, I cannot connect. >>>> It's as if the traffic from the web browser is not getting directed >>>> to the VPN tunnel or if it is its not traversing the link. >>>> >>>> What decides which port the browser uses? Is there a command that >>>> would tell me? >>> Further info to this - I seem to be getting all packets on PPP0 >>> discarded on transmission - see the Netstat -n below: >>> >>> Interface 0 Ethernet-Csmacd >>> physical address 00173191f122 MTU 1500 >>> >>> speed 100000000 bits/sec >>> unicast packets received 10318 >>> broadcast packets received 1319 >>> total bytes received 8384452 >>> unicast packets sent 7874 >>> broadcast packets sent 22 >>> total bytes sent 1454104 >>> packets discarded on transmission 0 >>> packets discarded on reception 0 >>> received packets in error 0 >>> errors trying to send 0 >>> packets received in unsupported protocols 0 >>> >>> Interface 9 Software Loopback >>> physical address 000000000000 MTU 1536 >>> >>> speed 0 bits/sec >>> unicast packets received 0 >>> broadcast packets received 0 >>> total bytes received 0 >>> unicast packets sent 10923 >>> broadcast packets sent 0 >>> total bytes sent 577306 >>> packets discarded on transmission 0 >>> packets discarded on reception 0 >>> received packets in error 0 >>> errors trying to send 0 >>> packets received in unsupported protocols 0 >>> >>> Interface 10 Serial Interface ppp0 >>> physical address 000000000000 MTU 1442 >>> >>> speed 0 bits/sec >>> unicast packets received 0 >>> broadcast packets received 0 >>> total bytes received 0 >>> unicast packets sent 117383 >>> broadcast packets sent 0 >>> total bytes sent 165446584 >>> packets discarded on transmission 113203 >>> packets discarded on reception 0 >>> received packets in error 0 >>> errors trying to send 0 >>> packets received in unsupported protocols 0 >> >> Hi Ed, >> >> I guess if you turned on iptrace just before stating the application, >> then stopped it after a while, then formatted it to human readable, >> it should show up which ports are actually being used/discarded? >> >> Regards, >> Mike >> > -------------------------------------------------- > > http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === > -- Cheers/2 Ed eComStationAustralia podcast RSS feed http://eComStationAustralia.podbean dot com/feed or iTunes Warpstock Europe at Stralsund, Germany 12-15 November 2009 http://www.warpstock.eu -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:51:32 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Steps to prepare a USB key for FAT32 usage with eCS and WXP Each time I get a new USB key, I have a heck of a job getting it to work with ECS and WXP. This time I found a straight forward process - here are the steps. 1. Plug in USB key - attached message appears. 2. DFSee - use wipe start of (this) disk to zeros option. 3. exit DFSee, eject key, reboot PC. 4. PC restarts, plug in key - attached message appears. 5. Run LVMGUI to create a volume - compatible mode. 6. exit LVMGUI 7. Format the partition on the key as JFS from the command line. 8. eject key, reboot PC. 9. PC restarts, plug in key - attached message appears. 10. Go into DFSee - format as FAT32. 11. eject key and try in WXP system. 12. return to eCS system and test. Able to read and write and transfer files using a key prepared in this way. In this test I used a SANDISK Cruzer 8GB USB memory key. -- Cheers/2 Ed eComStationAustralia podcast RSS feed http://eComStationAustralia.podbean dot com/feed or iTunes Warpstock Europe at Stralsund, Germany 12-15 November 2009 http://www.warpstock.eu -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:00:28 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: Steps to prepare a USB key for FAT32 usage with eCS and WXP Ed Durrant wrote: > Each time I get a new USB key, I have a heck of a job getting it to > work with ECS and WXP. This time I found a straight forward process - > here are the steps. > > 1. Plug in USB key - attached message appears. > 2. DFSee - use wipe start of (this) disk to zeros option. > 3. exit DFSee, eject key, reboot PC. > 4. PC restarts, plug in key - attached message appears. > 5. Run LVMGUI to create a volume - compatible mode. > 6. exit LVMGUI > 7. Format the partition on the key as JFS from the command line. > 8. eject key, reboot PC. > 9. PC restarts, plug in key - attached message appears. > 10. Go into DFSee - format as FAT32. > 11. eject key and try in WXP system. 12. return to eCS system and test. > > Able to read and write and transfer files using a key prepared in this > way. > > In this test I used a SANDISK Cruzer 8GB USB memory key. > Hi Ed, It's a pity that that doesn't work with media cards that are intended primarily for use as Camera storage - and have very different ideas about how the partition table should be written - e.g. Panasonic Lumix and SDHC cards. Regards, Mike -- Failed the exam for -------------------- MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert -------------------- Personal replies to any of : mikeoc (at) internode (dot) on (dot) net mikeoc (at) austarnet (dot) com (dot) au majilok (at) gmail (dot) com [Please ZIP any attachments, other than GIF/JPG or plain-text] If you are missing a response from me - check Tweed Heads WX status at: http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR663.loop.shtml#skip -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG ===