Two questions

Greetings all,

I have two questions - I don't know if they are related or not.

Background:
I have two computers, networked together, and I can ping, ftp, telnet,
http and all works well. One is a linux box (pingu) and the other dual
boots linux/win98 (chimay).

Question 1:
As soon as I set up IP-masquerading on pingu (2.2.x kernel, using IPChains),
the IP masq'ing works well (ie the win98 box can use it and browse the
net), but then a telnet or ftp from chimay pauses for what I guess is a DNS
timeout before giving me a prompt (at least a minute). This is true even
when both boxes are running linux. My /etc/hosts on both boxes list
themselves and the other box (this is a frequent answer to this very FAQ on
the net), so that is not the problem. (Yes, /etc/host.conf has order hosts,
bind.) If it were the problem, the delay should exist before IPmasq'ing,
no? Why does the ipchaining create the need for DNS lookups, if indeed
that is what is happening. My IPchain set is minimal and simple - for
testing now it is only:
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr
/sbin/ipchains -M -S 7200 10 60
/sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY
/sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j MASQ

Any ideas?
PS This constant lookup means that diald is trying to dial out even for
local telnets and ftp's between machines in my basement!!

Question 2:
DIALD! Has anyone got diald running happily with a 2.2.x kernel? It wants
ethertap devices - I MAY have that part figured out. But dial-outs keep
dying saying that:
        Jun 14 21:19:03 pingu pppd[779]: Device ttyS1 is locked by pid 742
pid 742 is the diald process
I read the man page - it says to insure that "lock" is removed from
/etc/ppp/options, because diald will take care of all of that. So who's
lock is bugging who here? I take it pppd is complaining because diald
already locked the port, but I haven't told pppd to try locking it. Is
there a command elsewhere that is telling pppd to lock the port. I just
used /sbin/ifup ppp0 to initiate the connection (this works from the
command line if diald isn't running).

Ideas?

Thanks much for any help!!
        Les...
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Received on Mon Jun 14 21:46:55 1999