[Nottingham] Problems configuring second network card

[Robert Davies]

On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 00:50, David Luff wrote:

> There's only one 'doze machine (my wife's) and given our respective taste
> in web sites I'm sure there would be absolutely zero network traffic saved
> by a caching proxy :-)

It's still a good idea, it means websites putting out illegal pages get=20
validated by a 'client' that you keep updated and is open to scrutiny and=20
source audit.  These do happen, you just need to look at the number of=20
security advisories about which have no known exploit out in the wild.

Coincidentally I just read this morning 'Brave Gnu World' section in Linux=
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Magazine, it talks about a GUI configuration tool for Debian called MagiCon=
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could be a major time saver (it supports both Qt and GTK+ interfaces).  I'm=
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not sure whether Libranet peculiarities would confuse it, but it seems to b=
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almost 'local software', http://magiconf.sheflug.co.uk, so I'm sure you can=
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find somebody clueful in event of troubles, on their list.

Readable config files in published documented formats are important, but=20
there's no harm in using GUI tools for first cuts, that you can later tweak=
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At moment I'm toying with Gentoo, though I mainly use SuSE, and it's a huge=
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timesaver being able to merge in working config files like XF86Config.

=46rom the screen shot of the network section, it showed a machine with mul=
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network interfaces, so it ought not to have any problem sorting things for=
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you, 'find /etc -cmin -10' will show you what files changed in /etc in last=
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10 minutes, to help you see what alterations are made.

Rob