RE: Trouble connecting to IDS 11.5 development server using SQuirrel SQL with IDS JDBC driver.

> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:01:53 +0100 > From: clive@serendipita.com > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Trouble connecting to IDS 11.5 development server using SQuirrel SQL with IDS JDBC driver. > > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > With respect to DHCP... I'm no expert so I've never seen where you can > > reserve an IP address for a specific machine that isn't a static IP > > address. In one of my clients, I have a sales office where there are > > between 75 - 125 laptops (and growing) on and off the network each day. > > There are a handfull of desktop and act as 'servers' that are tethered > > via a gigabit switch. Everything else is wireless. So I use a static IP > > address for the desktop machines and I use a wide range of addresses > > under DHCP. Even here, when connecting to the office printer/fax/scanner > > machine, they are set up via TCP/IP address and not name. So you can mix > > static and non-static IP addresses in the office. > > > > I can't believe you write such crap Gumby - and if this bit is crap how > much else of what you write is crap? > > go look at the fine manuals for DHCP and see what something like > > host slax-dev { hardware ethernet 00:0c:29:29:6c:d1; fixed-address > 192.168.22.99; } > > might do > Sorry there's no crap here. What you're doing is setting up a MAC address to a fixed IP address. But tell me how you can do this on the very simple web interface that most of these cheap wireless routers ship with? Some of the older wireless routers didn't let you specify the range. Now you can specify the range. Then you can use static IP addresses outside of the range. You can say RFTM, but go check out Linksys and see what you can and cant do. So please go check you attitude at the door. -G _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail®: Get quick friend updates right in your inbox. http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Updates1_042009

Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > > > Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:01:53 +0100 > > From: clive@serendipita.com > > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > Subject: Re: Trouble connecting to IDS 11.5 development server using > SQuirrel SQL with IDS JDBC driver. > > > > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > > With respect to DHCP... I'm no expert so I've never seen where you can > > > reserve an IP address for a specific machine that isn't a static IP > > > address. In one of my clients, I have a sales office where there are > > > between 75 - 125 laptops (and growing) on and off the network each > day. > > > There are a handfull of desktop and act as 'servers' that are tethered > > > via a gigabit switch. Everything else is wireless. So I use a > static IP > > > address for the desktop machines and I use a wide range of addresses > > > under DHCP. Even here, when connecting to the office > printer/fax/scanner > > > machine, they are set up via TCP/IP address and not name. So you > can mix > > > static and non-static IP addresses in the office. > > > > > > > I can't believe you write such crap Gumby - and if this bit is crap how > > much else of what you write is crap? > > > > go look at the fine manuals for DHCP and see what something like > > > > host slax-dev { hardware ethernet 00:0c:29:29:6c:d1; fixed-address > > 192.168.22.99; } > > > > might do > > > > Sorry there's no crap here. > > What you're doing is setting up a MAC address to a fixed IP address. But > tell me how you can do this on the very simple web interface that most > of these cheap wireless routers ship with? > > Some of the older wireless routers didn't let you specify the range. Now > you can specify the range. Then you can use static IP addresses outside > of the range. > > You can say RFTM, but go check out Linksys and see what you can and cant > do. So please go check you attitude at the door. Go to kbserver.netgear.com/pdf/dg834_dg834b_ref_manual_03Jun05.pdf and check out p 6-6. And check /your/ attitude at the door. -- Ian Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard at nildram co uk

Ian. I suggest you go back and check your attitude at the door. Did I say I had a netgear router? Nope. Did I say my client has a netgear router? Nope. Did I say how old the routers were? Nope. The point, junior is that the routers may allow for DHCP, but from their web interface, they KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID, because these are the 'home' versions and not the commercial grade routers. I'd love for my client to replace his two el-cheapo routers with a single commercial grade Cisco unit that has both a/g capabilities, was even thinking about n, but none of their laptops come with n yet so there's a way to save a couple of hundred bucks. Then they could have multiple authentications. WPA/WPA2 and still allow 128K wep along with a white mac list. Of course if they don't broadcast their SSID, I guess that could hide the wep too.... But its not my office and my client doesn't want to spend money that they don't have to, and I don't want to spend a couple of hours on the phone with their ISP's tech support trying to get their router's client side IP address ... (but I said that already...) And of course we've gotten off topic. You come here trying to do something that is totally brain dead. Meaning using .rhosts and /etc/hosts.equiv. I've given you a handful of links that were pretty easy to find via google as to why you don't want to use .rhosts and why you have to be *VERY* *VERY* *CAREFUL* when using /ect/hosts.equiv. Putting a (+) is the most brain dead thing that you can do. If I ever audited any system where this was done, it would mean termination of the sysadmin on the spot. Essentially you can forget your firewall because you've just shaved your ass, tatoo'ed 'PLEASE FUCK ME' on your backside and you've lubed up your asshole just waiting to be fucked. Now, I have't touched 4GL since '96. Really I stopped programming in 4GL since '93 but I still played with it . 4GL wasn't really designed as a 'client/server' paradigm. That was an after thought. 4GL was mainly used on 'green screen' terminals that were connected to the server via a serial connection. (You do remember those, right?) When it went 'client/server', the internet was relatively young and security wasn't the first thing anyone thought about. After all, you'd be client server on your own domain and behind a nice set of fire walls with a DMZ zone and your app wouldn't be out beyond the interior firewall. I would have believed that 4GL would have grown up along the way. But what do I know? I switched to Objective-C / Java work for client server and laughed at Informix's 'New Error' because those who wrote it didn't know jack about language theory. Yet I digress. The point is that if you use a (+) you've now set up your machine to treat anyone within your subnet as a 'trusted' host. So if I were a 'disgruntled' employee, or an industrial spy, I'd just bring in a small USB stick pre-loaded with Linux. I would then log in as root on my machine and now I can connect as root on to your server. Do I need to go on, or do you get the drift? Like I said. If you do what you want to do, you've just dropped your shorts and have just lubed your ass. But hey! Its your machines not mine. -G > Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:40:08 +0100 > From: goddai01@hotmail.co.uk > Subject: Re: Trouble connecting to IDS 11.5 development server using SQuirrel SQL with IDS JDBC driver. > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > > > > > > Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:01:53 +0100 > > > From: clive@serendipita.com > > > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > > Subject: Re: Trouble connecting to IDS 11.5 development server using > > SQuirrel SQL with IDS JDBC driver. > > > > > > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > > > With respect to DHCP... I'm no expert so I've never seen where you can > > > > reserve an IP address for a specific machine that isn't a static IP > > > > address. In one of my clients, I have a sales office where there are > > > > between 75 - 125 laptops (and growing) on and off the network each > > day. > > > > There are a handfull of desktop and act as 'servers' that are tethered > > > > via a gigabit switch. Everything else is wireless. So I use a > > static IP > > > > address for the desktop machines and I use a wide range of addresses > > > > under DHCP. Even here, when connecting to the office > > printer/fax/scanner > > > > machine, they are set up via TCP/IP address and not name. So you > > can mix > > > > static and non-static IP addresses in the office. > > > > > > > > > > I can't believe you write such crap Gumby - and if this bit is crap how > > > much else of what you write is crap? > > > > > > go look at the fine manuals for DHCP and see what something like > > > > > > host slax-dev { hardware ethernet 00:0c:29:29:6c:d1; fixed-address > > > 192.168.22.99; } > > > > > > might do > > > > > > > Sorry there's no crap here. > > > > What you're doing is setting up a MAC address to a fixed IP address. But > > tell me how you can do this on the very simple web interface that most > > of these cheap wireless routers ship with? > > > > Some of the older wireless routers didn't let you specify the range. Now > > you can specify the range. Then you can use static IP addresses outside > > of the range. > > > > You can say RFTM, but go check out Linksys and see what you can and cant > > do. So please go check you attitude at the door. > > Go to > kbserver.netgear.com/pdf/dg834_dg834b_ref_manual_03Jun05.pdf > > and check out p 6-6. And check /your/ attitude at the door. > > -- > Ian > > Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard > at nildram co uk > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_allup_1a_explore_042009