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Platform independent solution to watch "Streaming Service of the Council of the European Union.
by Michel Daggelinckx 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

"The Council of the EU has a streaming service so that we can watch its meetings ? but the service can only be accessed by Mac or MS Windows users. This is because they employ WMV format for the videos. In the FAQ they express a really strange opinion about this: 'The live streaming media service of the Council of the European Union can be viewed on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh platforms. We cannot support Linux in a legal way. So the answer is: No support for Linux.' An online petition has been set up to create pressure to convince the EU council to change its service to one that is platform independent." (slashdot) http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/eu_streaming_service_for_everybody You are free to sign the petition. -- Video games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music. - Kristian Wilson, CEO at Nintendo Gaming Corporation Inc.

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Error Help Needed
by Robert Spangler 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

Hello everyone, I need a little help finding an issue one of my machines. I have 4 setup all the same way and just this one gives the errors. Here are the errors from Logwatch; ################### LogWatch 5.2.2 (06/23/04) #################### --------------------- Arpwatch Begin ------------------------ Argument "4444'service' option expects either the name of a filter" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at /etc/log.d/scripts/services/arpwatch line 14. ---------------------- Arpwatch End ------------------------- --------------------- Kernel Begin ------------------------ Argument "4444'service' option expects either the name of a filter" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at /etc/log.d/scripts/services/kernel line 221, <STDIN> line 38. ---------------------- Kernel End ------------------------- --------------------- Mountd Begin ------------------------ Argument "4444'service' option expects either the name of a filter" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at /etc/log.d/scripts/services/mountd line 73. ---------------------- Mountd End ------------------------- --------------------- pam_unix Begin ------------------------ Argument "4444'service' option expects either the name of a filter" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at /etc/log.d/scripts/services/pam_unix line 42, <STDIN> line 20. ---------------------- pam_unix End ------------------------- --------------------- PortSentry Begin ------------------------ Argument "4444'service' option expects either the name of a filter" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at /etc/log.d/scripts/services/portsentry line 78. ---------------------- PortSentry End ------------------------- --------------------- postfix Begin ------------------------ Argument "4444'service' option expects either the name of a filter" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at /etc/log.d/scripts/services/postfix line 397. ---------------------- postfix End ------------------------- --------------------- SSHD Begin ------------------------ Argument "4444'service' option expects either the name of a filter" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at /etc/log.d/scripts/services/sshd line 85, <STDIN> line 2. ---------------------- SSHD End ------------------------- --------------------- Sshd2 Begin ------------------------ Argument "4444'service' option expects either the name of a filter" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at /etc/log.d/scripts/services/sshd2 line 32. ---------------------- Sshd2 End ------------------------- ###################### LogWatch End ######################### None of the other systems show this behavior and I don't know what could be causing this. I would be most thankful for any help. -- Regards Robert Smile... it increases your face value!

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Centos trademark issue
by Raimo Koski 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

I found an old ROM BIOS chip in my drawer with label Centos(r) Copyright 1994 on it. Then I found http://www.centos.com.tw/ on the net. Has anyone checked if you can use the name centos without any fear of litigation?

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Block the download in progress - Squid
by José Albornoz_ViaBcp 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Hi all I am using squid as proxy on CentOS 4.4, i need to block the download in progress. Thank you Jose Albornoz

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CentOS 4.4 e1000 and wire-speed
by Ross S. W. Walker 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Currently I'm running CentOS 4.4 on a Dell Poweredge 850 with an Intel Pro/1000 Quad-port adapter. I seem to be able to only achieve 80% utilization on the adapter, while on the same box running Fedora Core 5 I was able to reach 99% utilization. I am using iSCSI Enterprise Target as my application and I am using the nullio feature, it just discards any write and sends back random data for any read, for my bandwidth test. The IO pattern I use is 1MB block sequentials. Is there something in the OS that is throttling the bandwidth as it seems to be capped at 80%. I have selinux and iptables disabled, and I have tuned the TCP/IP stack to mimic the settings under 2.6.17, except bumped up the default IP send/receiver buffer size for improved UDP transmission over 1Gbps. The CPU is a P4 Dual Core 3GHz, not top of the line but adequate for my needs (strictly block io). Here are the TCP/IP tunables from my sysctl.conf: # Controls default receive buffer size (bytes) net.core.rmem_default = 262144 # Controls IP default send buffer size (bytes) net.core.wmem_default = 262144 # Controls IP maximum receive buffer size (bytes) net.core.rmem_max = 262144 # Controls IP maximum send buffer size (bytes) net.core.wmem_max = 262144 # Controls TCP memory utilization (pages) net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 49152 65536 98304 # Controls TCP sliding receive window buffer (bytes) net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 16777216 # Controls TCP sliding send window buffer (bytes) net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 65536 16777216 Ross S. W. Walker Information Systems Manager Medallion Financial, Corp. 437 Madison Avenue 38th Floor New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 328-2165 Fax: (212) 328-2125 WWW: http://www.medallion.com <http://www.medallion.com> ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.

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Redhat 5 delayed until march, Centos april then?
by Drew Weaver 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Hi, like (I'm guessing) alot of other folks, we were eager for the new release of CentOS/RedHat to support some of the newer intel technology (965 chipset mostly (ich8?)) I read today that Redhat 5 has been delayed until March of 2007, which would presumably put the release of CentOS 5 sometime in April. Does the CentOS developer team have any intention of releasing (possibly a new version of CentOS 4) which would allow us to use these new chipsets? Mainly the S5000 Server series and the 965 desktop series. The article I am refering to is here for anyone interested: http://news.com.com/Red+Hats+next+Linux+due+before+March/2100-1016_3-614 6149.html?tag=nefd.top -Drew

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logrotate: how to email logs with mutt?
by M. Fioretti 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Hello, next week I'll install logrotate on a centos 4.4 server via yum. The man page says that the default mail command is /bin/mail -s, but there is no such binary on Centos. I do have mutt installed, however, so I would like to use it. Ideally, I would like to have logrotate send logs with mutt as attachments like this: mutt me(a)home.account -a compressed_log_file -s "here are your log files" ie send the log as attachment, not email body. But the logrotate man page says: --mail <command> Tells logrotate which command to use when mailing logs. This command should accept two arguments: 1) the subject of the message, and 2) the recipient. The command must then read a message on standard input and mail it to the recipient. so I have not clear how to make it use mutt as I want. Is it OK to say --mail 'mutt me(a)home.account -a compressed_log_file -s "here are your log files"' or will logrotate send the log in the email _body_? I will check myself the first time logrotate runs, but I thought it would be nice to know if others are already usign mutt with logrotate and document here on the list the whole setup. Thanks, M.

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Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways.
by Indunil Jayasooriya 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Hi , I have a network to reach which is 192.168.2.0/24. It is a branch of the company. I have currently added a route to that network via one gateway ( 192.168.0.254) in following way. ip route add 192.168.2.0/24 via 192.168.0.254 Now, We got another gateway which is 192.168.0.250. Now I want to add a route to the same network which is 192.168.2.0/24 via this gateway (192.168.0.250) as well. Then I will have 2 paths to the same network. One path should be primary and the other path should be backup. everything should go via primary path. if the primary path goes down, the backup path should be active. That is the purpose of doing this. Pls let me know whether it is possible or not? if possible, How can I achieve this goal. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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RE: CentOS Digest, Vol 23, Issue 30
by Timothy J Rice 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

-----Original Message----- From: "centos-request(a)centos.org" <centos-request(a)centos.org> To: "centos(a)centos.org" <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: 12/30/06 12:01 PM Subject: CentOS Digest, Vol 23, Issue 30 Send CentOS mailing list submissions to centos(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Redhat 5 delayed until march, Centos april then? (Karanbir Singh) 2. RE: Redhat 5 delayed until march, Centos april then? (Drew Weaver) 3. Re: UPS support on CentOS 4.4 (Scott Silva) 4. Re: Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. (Scott Silva) 5. Re: Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. (Peter Farrow) 6. Re: Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. (Peter Farrow) 7. Re: Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. (Aleksandar Milivojevic) 8. Fwd: [CentOS] Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. (Indunil Jayasooriya) 9. Re: How to change NIC alias? (Linux Man) 10. logrotate: how to email logs with mutt? (M. Fioretti) 11. Re: logrotate: how to email logs with mutt? (Kingsly John) 12. Re: CentOS 4.5 and CentOS 5.0 News (William L. Maltby) 13. Re: CentOS 4.5 and CentOS 5.0 News (William L. Maltby) 14. Re: CentOS 4.5 and CentOS 5.0 News (William L. Maltby) 15. Re: logrotate: how to email logs with mutt? (M. Fioretti) 16. Re: CentOS 4.5 and CentOS 5.0 News (William L. Maltby) 17. Re: logrotate: how to email logs with mutt? (Kingsly John) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:14:43 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <mail-lists(a)karan.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Redhat 5 delayed until march, Centos april then? To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <45956923.10303(a)karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Drew Weaver wrote: > Its not really a bug, the kernel which comes with the installer doesn't > support the hardware... > Do you know what kernel version does, and can you point out the patch for the driver ? Maybe we can massage it into a driver that works :) -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:28:37 -0500 From: "Drew Weaver" <drew.weaver(a)thenap.com> Subject: RE: [CentOS] Redhat 5 delayed until march, Centos april then? To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <B9ECBF8D89E7684EB63FF250E8788B1942C25C(a)BIGLOG.thenap.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" I know they added support in 2.6.18 for 965/s5000 (ich8). ChangeLog-2.6.18-rc1: commit 19039bd0079f282b1023e61212285b5653e3a8ad Author: Takashi Iwai Date: Wed Jun 28 15:52:16 2006 +0200 [ALSA] Add Intel D965 board support Added the support for Intel D965 boards with STAC9227 codec. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela ChangeLog-2.6.18-rc2: commit ae2c3860eb18712b71861bb6fc8d7e11e0f79e6d Author: Auke Kok Date: Tue Jun 27 09:08:30 2006 -0700 e1000: add ich8lan device ID's Add the device ID's of the supported ICH8 LAN devices. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg Signed-off-by: Auke Kok commit 1f9e7e3d32f7ff3fd3a936fc9ad59770b3d29774 Author: Auke Kok Date: Tue Jun 27 09:08:26 2006 -0700 e1000: allow user to disable ich8 lock loss workaround The workaround for the ich8 lock loss problem is only needed for a very small amount of systems. This adds an option for the user to disable the workaround. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg Signed-off-by: Auke Kok commit cd94dd0b648ceb64ca5e41d9ccfa99c1e30e92ef Author: Auke Kok Date: Tue Jun 27 09:08:22 2006 -0700 e1000: integrate ich8 support into driver This hooks up the ich8 structure into the driver itself. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg Signed-off-by: Auke Kok commit d37ea5d56293b7a883d2a993df5d8b9fb660ed3b Author: Auke Kok Date: Tue Jun 27 09:08:17 2006 -0700 e1000: add ich8lan core functions This implements the core new functions needed for ich8's internal NIC. This includes: * ich8 specific read/write code * flash/nvm access code * software semaphore flag functions * 10/100 PHY (fe - no gigabit speed) support for low-end versions * A workaround for a powerdown sequence problem discovered that affects a small number of motherboard. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg Signed-off-by: Auke Kok ChangeLog-2.6.18-rc3: commit 08f12edc335d24a89ba2f50b0a5b9d12295ce198 Author: Jeff Garzik Date: Tue Jul 11 11:57:44 2006 -0400 [libata] ata_piix: attempt to fix ICH8 support Take into account the fact that ICH8 changed the register layout of the MAP and PCS register bits. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 2:15 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Redhat 5 delayed until march, Centos april then? Drew Weaver wrote: > Its not really a bug, the kernel which comes with the installer > doesn't support the hardware... > Do you know what kernel version does, and can you point out the patch for the driver ? Maybe we can massage it into a driver that works :) -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:24:52 -0800 From: Scott Silva <ssilva(a)sgvwater.com> Subject: [CentOS] Re: UPS support on CentOS 4.4 To: centos(a)centos.org Message-ID: <en40va$dba$1(a)sea.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Edward Diener spake the following on 12/29/2006 7:29 AM: > peter wrote: >> >> >> >>> You are right, but this software needs to be manually run for the end >>> user to find out what is happening. >>> >>> What I really want of course is for a visual window to popup whenever >>> there are A/C problems, and whenever the A/C has lost power and the UPS >>> battery is getting low. >> >>> It is part of apcupsd. I will look at it and see if I can get it going >>> in CentOS 4.4. Thanks for reminding me of it. >> >> >> >> >> I haven't bothered to play with apcupsd just because I don't need to >> worry >> about my power where my boxes live, but on the software note, I tend >> to find >> far more usefull to have linux software do something intelligent like >> send me >> an email when there's a problem so I can just forward that to my cell >> phone, >> and end up notified and able to react wherever I happen to be. > > That is a nice feature to have. > >> >> I don't even see popups on the screen of my workstation, much less >> anything >> I might need a UPS on. Why would I want windows software behavior >> under Linux? > > I don't know what you mean by "windows software behavior" but if I am > working with the screen in front of me and the A/C power to my UPS goes > out or the system needs to shut down because the A/C power has been out > and the UPS battery is running out of power to support my continued > working, I like to experience some sort of notification when these > things are happening. Since I am staring at my screen, a visual > notification seems justified to me. If that seems unusual to you then I > can only surmise that you use your computer differently than I do. > Nonetheless, since it's each to their own, a visual notification is what > I would like to alert me to what is happening. You always have the constant beeping from the UPS, and the sound of the inverters humming. Don't depend on the software to be real accurate on the time remaining, as it is an estimate, and is not always very accurate. I usually close what I am doing , saving if needed, as soon as I hear the damn thing.. I will give it a minute or two, as the building I am in right now has many short (5 to 10 second) sags every day. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:34:05 -0800 From: Scott Silva <ssilva(a)sgvwater.com> Subject: [CentOS] Re: Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. To: centos(a)centos.org Message-ID: <en41gk$erb$1(a)sea.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Indunil Jayasooriya spake the following on 12/29/2006 3:11 AM: > Hi , > > I have a network to reach which is 192.168.2.0/24 > . It is a branch of the company. I have currently > added a route to that network via one gateway ( 192.168.0.254) > in following way. > > ip route add 192.168.2.0/24 via 192.168.0.254 > > > Now, We got another gateway which is 192.168.0.250 > < Now I want to add a route to the same network > which is 192.168.2.0/24 via this gateway ( > 192.168.0.250 ) as well. > > Then I will have 2 paths to the same network. One path should be primary > and the other path should be backup. everything should go via primary > path. > > if the primary path goes down, the backup path should be active. > > That is the purpose of doing this. > > Pls let me know whether it is possible or not? > > if possible, How can I achieve this goal. > When you create a route there is a metric number that does this. But you will need a routing daemon running to use it. Another possibility would be to have a script run every 5 minutes in cron that pings the first gateway, and if the ping fails, change the route. It would also need logic to fix the first route when the primary gateway starts answering pings again. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:39:04 +0000 From: Peter Farrow <peter(a)farrows.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <45958AF8.3000800(a)farrows.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed You can add a second route and weight it as follows: ip route add equalize 192.168.2.0/24 scope global nexthop via 192.168.0.254 dev eth0 weight 1 nexthop via 192.168.0.250 dev eth0 weight 1 This assumes that: both gateways are connected to eth0 on your linux box You want equal traffic weight down each gateway to the remote network.... Regards P. Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > Hi , > > I have a network to reach which is *MailScanner warning: numerical > links are often malicious:* 192.168.2.0/24 <http://192.168.2.0/24>. It > is a branch of the company. I have currently added a route to that > network via one gateway ( *MailScanner warning: numerical links are > often malicious:* 192.168.0.254 <http://192.168.0.254>) in following way. > > ip route add *MailScanner warning: numerical links are often > malicious:* 192.168.2.0/24 <http://192.168.2.0/24> via *MailScanner > warning: numerical links are often malicious:* 192.168.0.254 > <http://192.168.0.254> > > Now, We got another gateway which is *MailScanner warning: numerical > links are often malicious:* 192.168.0.250 <http://192.168.0.250>. Now > I want to add a route to the same network which is *MailScanner > warning: numerical links are often malicious:* 192.168.2.0/24 > <http://192.168.2.0/24> via this gateway (*MailScanner warning: > numerical links are often malicious:* 192.168.0.250 > <http://192.168.0.250>) as well. > > Then I will have 2 paths to the same network. One path should be > primary and the other path should be backup. everything should go via > primary path. > > if the primary path goes down, the backup path should be active. > > That is the purpose of doing this. > > Pls let me know whether it is possible or not? > > if possible, How can I achieve this goal. > > > > > > > -- > Thank you > Indunil Jayasooriya > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by the *Enhancion* <http://www.enhancion.net/> > system scanner, > and is believed to be clean. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Enhancion system Scanner and is believed to be clean. http://www.enhancion.net ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:43:49 +0000 From: Peter Farrow <peter(a)farrows.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <45958C15.807(a)farrows.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed To achieve the goal of primary path only, you can heavily weight one path over the other, some traffic will still spill into the other, you can remove the equalize parameter to disable this behaviour, if you take a look at the linux advanced routing howto there are lots of options to play with.. P. Peter Farrow wrote: > You can add a second route and weight it as follows: > ip route add equalize 192.168.2.0/24 scope global nexthop via > 192.168.0.254 dev eth0 weight 1 nexthop via 192.168.0.250 dev eth0 > weight 1 > > This assumes that: > > both gateways are connected to eth0 on your linux box > You want equal traffic weight down each gateway to the remote network.... > > Regards > > P. > > > > Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: >> Hi , >> >> I have a network to reach which is *MailScanner warning: numerical >> links are often malicious:* 192.168.2.0/24 <http://192.168.2.0/24>. >> It is a branch of the company. I have currently added a route to that >> network via one gateway ( *MailScanner warning: numerical links are >> often malicious:* 192.168.0.254 <http://192.168.0.254>) in following >> way. >> >> ip route add *MailScanner warning: numerical links are often >> malicious:* 192.168.2.0/24 <http://192.168.2.0/24> via *MailScanner >> warning: numerical links are often malicious:* 192.168.0.254 >> <http://192.168.0.254> >> >> Now, We got another gateway which is *MailScanner warning: numerical >> links are often malicious:* 192.168.0.250 <http://192.168.0.250>. Now >> I want to add a route to the same network which is *MailScanner >> warning: numerical links are often malicious:* 192.168.2.0/24 >> <http://192.168.2.0/24> via this gateway (*MailScanner warning: >> numerical links are often malicious:* 192.168.0.250 >> <http://192.168.0.250>) as well. >> >> Then I will have 2 paths to the same network. One path should be >> primary and the other path should be backup. everything should go >> via primary path. >> >> if the primary path goes down, the backup path should be active. >> >> That is the purpose of doing this. >> >> Pls let me know whether it is possible or not? >> >> if possible, How can I achieve this goal. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Thank you >> Indunil Jayasooriya >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by the *Enhancion* <http://www.enhancion.net/> >> system scanner, >> and is believed to be clean. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS(a)centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Enhancion system Scanner and is believed to be clean. http://www.enhancion.net ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:07:53 -0600 From: Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex(a)milivojevic.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. To: centos(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20061229160753.1ibh0xbiuck4c8gk(a)www.milivojevic.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp=Yes; format=flowed Quoting Indunil Jayasooriya <indunil75(a)gmail.com>: > Hi , > > I have a network to reach which is 192.168.2.0/24. It is a branch of the > company. I have currently added a route to that network via one gateway ( > 192.168.0.254) in following way. > > ip route add 192.168.2.0/24 via 192.168.0.254 > > Now, We got another gateway which is 192.168.0.250. Now I want to add a > route to the same network which is 192.168.2.0/24 via this gateway > (192.168.0.250) > as well. > > Then I will have 2 paths to the same network. One path should be primary and > the other path should be backup. everything should go via primary path. > > if the primary path goes down, the backup path should be active. > > That is the purpose of doing this. > > Pls let me know whether it is possible or not? > > if possible, How can I achieve this goal. One possible solution is to enable one of the routing protocols on your routers, instead of using static routing. For example BGP or OSPF. The routers will than discover which paths to every of the networks you have exist and will dynamically change routing rules (instead of using static set of rules) as the network connections go up and down. In the way you requested in your question. It might be an overkill for simple network. But if your network becomes more complex in the future, you'll have infrastructure to handle it. Another advantage of using standard routing protocol is that they tend to be platform independent. You want to replace that Cisco router with Linux router or Linux router with Cisco router. Guess what, you can use BGP or OSPF on both Linux and Cisco based router and your configuration is not specific to single type of router anymore. ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:49:14 +0530 From: "Indunil Jayasooriya" <indunil75(a)gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: [CentOS] Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. To: peter(a)farrows.org, "CentOS mailing list" <centos(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <7ed6b0aa0612292119g3b6c624fn251c454d144fa14d(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" HI Peter, Interesting in deed. You say that You can add a second route and weight it as follows: ip route add equalize 192.168.2.0/24 scope global nexthop via 192.168.0.254 dev eth0 weight 1 nexthop via 192.168.0.250 dev eth0 weight 1 I want to know whether I can use the above command , when the below command exists . ip route add 192.168.2.0/24 via 192.168.0.254 Then I want to know about your second answer which is "To achieve the goal of primary path only, you can heavily weight one path over the other, some traffic will still spill into the other, you can remove the equalize parameter to disable this behaviour " herein, what is this "you can heavily weight one path over the other" When weight 1 and weight 1 , Both paths are equal. If I use weight 1 and weight 100 , what would be the primary path ? Is it weight 1 ? Is it the lower number which becomes primary ? Then , in my case, is the following coomad is right? ip route add 192.168.2.0/24 scope global nexthop via 192.168.0.254 dev eth0 weight 1 nexthop via 192.168.0.250 dev eth0 weight 100 I guess with the above command that traffc will flow via primary, when it fails , traffic will flow via secondary. That is what I need. Am I right ? Then can I acheive this goal ? Thanks Indunil ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex(a)milivojevic.org> Date: Dec 30, 2006 3:37 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. To: centos(a)centos.org Quoting Indunil Jayasooriya <indunil75(a)gmail.com>: > Hi , > > I have a network to reach which is 192.168.2.0/24. It is a branch of the > company. I have currently added a route to that network via one gateway ( > 192.168.0.254) in following way. > > ip route add 192.168.2.0/24 via 192.168.0.254 > > Now, We got another gateway which is 192.168.0.250. Now I want to add a > route to the same network which is 192.168.2.0/24 via this gateway > (192.168.0.250) > as well. > > Then I will have 2 paths to the same network. One path should be primary and > the other path should be backup. everything should go via primary path. > > if the primary path goes down, the backup path should be active. > > That is the purpose of doing this. > > Pls let me know whether it is possible or not? > > if possible, How can I achieve this goal. One possible solution is to enable one of the routing protocols on your routers, instead of using static routing. For example BGP or OSPF. The routers will than discover which paths to every of the networks you have exist and will dynamically change routing rules (instead of using static set of rules) as the network connections go up and down. In the way you requested in your question. It might be an overkill for simple network. But if your network becomes more complex in the future, you'll have infrastructure to handle it. Another advantage of using standard routing protocol is that they tend to be platform independent. You want to replace that Cisco router with Linux router or Linux router with Cisco router. Guess what, you can use BGP or OSPF on both Linux and Cisco based router and your configuration is not specific to single type of router anymore. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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CentOS 4.5 and CentOS 5.0 News
by Josh Donovan 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hi, I use CentOS as a firewall/proxy/webserver/fileserver in my small network. As the small-spec machine with CentOS is heavily loaded/used I can't afford downtime. 20 GB, pentium II with only 128 MB RAM. However I want to know the news on 4.5 is it due soon? Can I gain more by running CentOS 3.x range on such an old machine like mine? Will CentOS 5.0 mean you need a minimum of 512 RAM? What is the latest on this? Are there any addons for CentOS such as squidguard/dansguardian etc? that can assist in parental controls? ___________________________________________________________ All New Yahoo! Mail Tired of Vi@gr@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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