I have NO relation with Alternet other that my employer uses it and
advices it to his customers, because it appears to Plan-Net as being the
best choice for the time being.
Plan-Net is and will remain independant of software/hardware/telco
vendors. So, if the situation changes, I'll be the first to inform you
about the new opportunities.
But in order to increase the impact I, and Plan-Net, can have on this
ISP in case it takes bad choices or decreases in quality, I suggest you
to quote my name ("Recomanded by Brent") when applying for Internet
Access. They know me very well. This does not give me a cent neither a
reduction on my own subscription, but it gives me access to the updates
they sent normally only to their partners, so that I can inform you. I
also strongly suggest you to quote that you are Linux user (even
part-time) by adding on the contract that you only accept the conditions
if Alternet certify that the service is working with Linux hosts,
routers and firewalls. They accept those kind of annotations. For the
time being, it's no problem with them, but this way they will have more
difficulties to change their mind if ever in the future.
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All,
still chasing my strange problem.
One of the major suspects is my ADSL router, a Zyxel 650H-33. Does
anybody have exactly the same model? I'd like to compare configurations.
Regards,
-pz
Serge Marelli <serge.marelli(a)lilux.lu> wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 23:21, Yves Glodt wrote:
[...]
> My conclusion? Coditel sucks, I'm leaving them ASAP and I'm not about
> to make them good publicity (or let anyone believe so). Their billing
> system sucks, their accounting scheme sucks and you have no way to check
> what's where or how you possibly could have transferred what THEY claim
> you transferred.
dsl4you is a reseller of Alternet, so the quality of their service is the
quality of Alternet (very good so far) limited by the failures of the underlying
EPT infrastructure (that failed last week in Rumelange during two long days).
So, please consider the limited time offer of 29.90 TTC for flat rate ADSL
1Mb/s, including Internet access and DSL connection, available directly from
Alternet.lu.
For the time being, it seems to me that it's the cheapest flat-rate 1Mb/s ADSL
service available about everywhere in Luxembourg. I'm using it since months and
its working very well.
Yours,
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Michel,
> You say it is occuring only sometimes.
> Could it be possible that the router is about to connect to the Internet
> while your computer tries to resolve this address?
> Look at connection timeout in the router config.
The connection is "nailed-up", so I don't think so.
I do have drops of connection with VO (PPPoE light going out on the router), but not really often.
> Another possibilty would be to configure the DNS server directly on your
> computer (so it does not use the DNS relay of the router).
> The DNS servers of VO should be:
> 80.90.44.25
> 80.90.45.15
I will try that, but I don't like the solution because it is static.
Regards,
-pu
Hi all,
I remember a discussion here about slow DNS for P&T. I am experiencing
something similar with Visual Online, although I cannot say for sure if
it's their problem or mine.
This is one sample query caught by Ethereal:
Time Source Destination Protocol Info
24.107756 192.168.1.8 192.168.1.1 DNS
Standard query A www.athome.lu
29.115471 192.168.1.8 192.168.1.1 DNS
Standard query A www.athome.lu
34.125519 192.168.1.8 192.168.1.1 DNS
Standard query A www.athome.lu
39.135464 192.168.1.8 192.168.1.1 DNS
Standard query A www.athome.lu
39.165492 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.8 DNS
Standard query response A 80.92.67.138
So it means it took 15 seconds and 3 retransmissions for a DNS query to
get an answer. BTW, 192.168.1.8 is the PC, and 192.168.1.1 is the router
which forwards to VO's DNS.
This behavious is not systematic, but fairly regular (and extremely
annoying). There's 3 candidates:
-1- the PC
here's what resolv.conf says:
nameserver 192.168.1.1
-2- the router
I am unable to find anything in the logs, and I haven't changed anything
on that level except disable the RIP protocol.
-3- the DNS
not sure which one I use, as the router gets this information somehow
from VO - however, I have been unable to find any DNS specific setting
in the router. In the "LAN" tab, it says 0.0.0.0 for both the primary
and the secondary DNS server.
Any clues appreciated.
-pu
Hi all,
I am experiencing some strange behaviour with Guarddog 2.3.2 running
with kernel 2.4.26.
Does anybody else use Guarddog in a similar configuration?
If not, are you using any tools to ease the netfilter configuration?
-pu
hi there,
does anyone use the new adsl internet service adsl4all.lu? as it is
relatively cheap (29 euros 1Mbit flat), i was wondering if it is a
reliable service.
thanks in advance
Frédéric BECKER
Same price as Alternet, same routers as Alternet, same coverage as Alternet.
If you have a look at their web site, they are "partners" of Alternet. I suspect
they are resellers of Alternet or even a new company name for the distribution
network of Alternet. So, indeed, this offer is the cheapest I know for flat-rate
DSL service in Luxembourg. If it is confirmed as being actually an Alternet
service (as I believe), then it is reliable.
I'll check with Alternet.
frederic(a)anesec.lu wrote:
> hi there,
>
> does anyone use the new adsl internet service adsl4all.lu? as it is
> relatively cheap (29 euros 1Mbit flat), i was wondering if it is a
> reliable service.
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Frédéric BECKER
>
>
>
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Hi,
I went on the website, downloaded the firefox installer and "installed"
it (as root) but my other users can't use it. For some reason, it won't
start. It did work when I ran it as the user who installed it (root).
I'd like to know the following things in general:
- do I need to be logged in as root to install firefox on my system?
- if not, should be logged in as root to install firefox on my system?
- where should I install firefox? in /usr/local/bin/? in /opt/ ?
- there are three different users on my system, what should I do to make
sure they all can use firefox once it's installed?
About my specific problem, I launched firefox from the shell and got the
following error message:
<quote>
user@host:~> firefox
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!
(firefox-bin:5584): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
</quote>
thanks for any help
Serge
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Eric Dondelinger <Eric.Dondelinger(a)linux.lu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after having seen Brent play around with QEMU, I decided to give it
> a try - and it is indeed nice, even if it feels slower than VMWare.
Sadly, it is really an emulation, so (as reported on their web site qemu.org) it
runs roughly 4 times slowlier than the same program running natively on the host
computer (in the x86 on x86 case).
If you download the last binaries in tgz format from the qemu.org web site, (the
one that must be untared in the / directory), there are documentations in there.
No time yet to read it, but there are some at least.
> I've got one problem though, which is networking - the documentation
> is frankly lacking, and I didn't as yet find out how to set up
> bridged networking (i.e. what VMWare normally does). I did google,
> but the results there are also not what I expected (including google
> groups).
>
> Does someone have pointers to *decent* documentation for this stuff?
>
> TIA, Eric
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