On Thursday 06 October 2005 15:49, tim hall wrote: > On Thursday 06 October 2005 16:19, Laura Conrad was like: > > ? ? th> That is, assuming I don't lose the will to live while I'm > > ? ? th> waiting for the page to display in my browser. > > > > Yes, when I tried to display the page to see what Dave was talking > > about, I kept wondering how anyone even got as far as being able to > > complain about it. > > This is now in the process of being fixed along with various other > glitches. :) Hi Tim. This is always a problem when running a webserver off a dialup connection. Joking aside, and back to the big AGNULA nightmares problem. I trolled around a bit on my Debian Sarge's synaptic. Pump is described as a tool for retrieving IP addresses, using dhcp or bootp. (don't know what bootp is, perhaps someone will tell me). The word pump, thinking back to old-time detective movies is to do with obtaining information from informants. Something like "lets pump the guy and see what he comes up with" . I suppose this fits in quite well with the Linux useage of the word. Like. Lets pump the dhcp server and see what IP address it throws back. The only other network config tools I could find on Sarge were "network-console-config" which appears to be tied into running base-config, and "netapplet" , which to quote says "USER-FRIENDLY NETWORK INTERFACE CONTROL APPLET" "Network applet allows the user to control the currently active network interface and perform a small amount of run-time configuration. It is primarily aimed at laptop users who need to be able to switch between different network setups and wireless networks" . That sounds like it coiuld be quite usefull to laptop users. Of course I don't know if either of these programs are on DeMuDi. I did DL the iso,but can't remember where I've put it, and didn't have any CDR's at the time to burn it to. When I find it I'll try it, and see what networking stuff came down with it. May the force be with you. Nigel.
