tgp1994

What happens if you type "ipconfig /realease" in a command prompt window?

It says "The operation failed as no adapter is in the state permissible for this operation.

You can currently disable the IPv6 feature on your PC. The DNS's and gateways are in charge of this, you don't need an IPv6 setting as long as you have no IPv6 address on a private network inside your home.

Ok, I disabled IPv6 for my adapter, although it continues on trying to acquire network address (even after I tried repairing it), and the ipconfig report for my ethernet adapter still reports a set of IP address and subnet values at 0.0.0.0.

One program was adding a phantom/ghost NIC card, do you happen to have a virtual pc installed or a virtual system? If yes then disable its adapter, if no, the fix generated a phamtom adapter to bypass the private IP.
There is a configuration in the HL/Steam server about an outside IP though it depends on what patches or version of modules you have. All Steam servers have an outside and private IP configuration. The private IP is the one you won't bother touching.

Please NOTE that the last time I setup/manage such server is 2 years back using Steam Dedicated Server/Condition Zero server.

Also a point to remember, if you have both IP v4 and IP v6 enabled and you have values on both protocol, you will appear as if you have 2 NIC cards. If the values points to the same physical address, they will only appear as one.

Is there any point to using IPv6 in a home network, let alone any LAN network? I suppose I might as well disable it.

Anyone have any more ideas?

Other than buying an ethernet board and plugging it in directly into your modem, there's very little you can do. Upgrading your internet connection is the only idea I can think of. By the way, why do you have a need of speeding up your internet connection, for gaming? If so, make sure you NAT is opened up.

I suppose I should have been more specific, sorry.

I'm running the actual "game server" (a Garry's Mod server) on a windows computer, which happens to be on the same network. Not much overhead from that.
Then on the other hand, I have my Ubuntu (Mint) server, which is acting as a "Fast Download" server. Essentially, the game directs clients to that server to download various content, I.E. maps, models, materials, etc. All it is is an apache webserver, with a normal directory holding the content. I was just hoping that it was possible for me to up the speed there (and tweaks for Apache2 known?)

I'm not sure about NAT. That seems pretty dangerous, and anyways, that only makes the difference of a closed or open port :\ (So either it would be accessible or not.)

The use of a wired internet connection brings probably the highest speed the internet connection offers.

It's funny that you mention that, because all I have to do is purchase an ethernet cord. That's it, then all I have to do is thread it into an empty wall socket. I just haven't pushed myself enough to go out and buy the cord :\

To simply bzip a file with python

#!/usr/bin/env python# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-import bz2FILE = 'file_to_bzip'bz2_file = bz2.BZ2File('%s.bz2' % FILE, 'wb')data = open(FILE, 'rb').read()bz2_file.write(data)del(data)bz2_file.close()print '%s has been compressed and saved to current working directory.' % FILE

This is just simple example to just demonstrate how to bzip a file. Because it's only simple, you as the programmer needs to work on improving it.

Cheers,

MC

I think I used a different technique awhile ago, (doesn't bz2 delete the uncompressed file once it's done?)

But thanks anyways

Do you mean that "ipconfig" shows your Ethernet adapter twice ?

Umm... no :\ I copied and pasted the only ethernet adapter I have, as well as all information regarding it.

Or maybe you also added a client DHCP program, which ignores your static configuration?

Doubt it, my ip remains 192.168.1.10 on the local network.

So, your Ethernet adapter has a 0.0.0.0 IP address? Are you connected through wifi?

Looks that your NIC card has a cable which is connected to something which does not have an active DHCP service able to provide an IP address.

Nope... it's ethernet. My router, which it's connected to, does have a functioning DHCP service, although both IPs that I have assigned to this NIC are static.

 

@zenia: Traffic is still flowing through the router. I think the only purpose of entering my outside IP into the NIC's configuration is so that specific program can properly broadcast my IP. If people can hack me from that server just because of this new configuration, then I think there's a larger problem

"acquiring IP address" means that something started an "ipconfig /renew".Would be interesting to know if this is brought by the working fix.
Could you type a "ipconfig" in a command-line prompt window during that "acquiring", and tell us what it says ?

Alright, here's the pertinent information:

Ethernet adapter Local Area Network:Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.10Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::219:dbff:fee7:4e00%6Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

That's weird, I wonder why one IP is specified as 0.0.0.0 :\ I certainly didn't do that.

Bump :/

Hm, that is pretty bad. It is a good thing that all inbound ports are blocked by my router unless specifically opened by a program on my side.Fortunately, it turns out that my ISP gives out a version of Norton 360 for free, so I think I ought to take advantage of that :)Thanks.

I wrote a sort of a kind of a small tutorial about how to change the settings of the forum from the Rich Text Editor to the Standard Text Editor.
@ tgp1994:
Some of the possibilities to chose in a poll are put in there for fun.

Ya, I understand, although I was speaking for more serious polls

Interesting idea but I think you are missing some practical problems. I will assume a Microsoft Windows model since I believe thatâs what the original post was alluding to.
I will agree that the core system files could be protected by setting them to read only. This would have to be a hardware read only switch such as the jumper pin you described because anything that can be accessed by software could also be accessed by malware. Having a super secure software implementation solution doesnât work because history has shown that if the target is high value enough, it will be broken. But now I ask how you will update Windows on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month. You will have to:
1. shut down the computer
2. open the case
3. set the jumper
4. start Windows again
5. apply the update
6. Shut down the computer a second time
7. Set the jumper to read only again
8. Close the case
9. Start Windows a second time

This would get tedious for me as a power user really quick and the average user would just laugh and never enable the read only jumper. Good idea but the nine point process makes this impractical.

This would work well against the malware that replaces core Windows files to hide itself. But most malware doesnât touch the core files, they just use them. Using a file such as a DLL can be done in read only mode or not. Most of the malware usually lives in the user profile area, specifically the temp folders or the browser cache folder. Occasionally it will install itself in the Program Files directory.

Setting sensitive areas to read only will deter certain types of attacks but you still have plenty of malware that never even rely on privileged Windows files. The trade off for 1% extra security isnât worth it.

Ya, true... I'm sure there must be some sort of application for this idea. I.E security software?

It does feel like that and I agree with you. Right now, we have games with amazing graphics but I believe that we could advance even further in technology. A few decades ago, 16 MB of RAM was godly and a floppy disk 1.44 MB was sufficient enough for most people. Decades from now, we are going to think that 16 GB of RAM will be a joke and wouldn't be enough to run an average game in the future. A 200 GB hard drive that may please us now may make us cry later on. The datatype "terabyte" will be used much more and T1 connections will feel like dialup in today's time.

Oh, absolutely. I want to be able to buy an economy laptop 5 years from now with 1.2TB of system memory installed

Hi everyone.I run a game server from time to time, generally hosting Garry's mod (although this will apply to any source engine game; Team Fortress 2, Counter Strike Source, Day of Defeat Source, etc.)Anyhow, the server software, SRCDS, generally has an issue behind LANs, where it will not properly broadcast the server's address. Generally, it will take the inside IP address, instead of the outside one.There's a currently working fix, where if one opens their network connections panel, goes to the properties of their main connection, clicks properties of TCP/IP, clicks advanced, then adds their outside IP to the IP Address list, it will show correctly.The fix works for me, although since then, the connection will sit there saying "Acquiring network address". If I click repair, it goes through it fine and says it didn't encounter any problems. I can still access the internet just fine.Does anyone know why it's doing this?

By the way, the idea is correct.

And some Unix systems use it.

You can create a restricted shell unix user, who simply cannot write things in the system disks.

Another example, AIX, a proprietary Unix systems, has all the binary files in /usr, a filesystem in which you should not write anything. So you can easily make /usr a read-only filesystem, so the integrity of the Operatint System is always respected.

Unfortunately, Microsoft Windows does not think the job that way.

Ah, I think that's what Microsoft Vista was trying to accomplish, by creating heavily restricted users.

Here is an example of a good poll.
A good example of a good poll.

Why would someone answer "I don't answer polls" in a poll?

installing a software changes a lot of files inside the base OS. At least the startup configuration files, the list of the programs to be launched at system startup, a lot of items inside the registry, and so on.

I wasn't planning on the registry being read only, although you strike a good point with the startup configuration files.

I think I may have been going in the wrong direction with this idea. Perhaps only security related programs could be stored on the read only portion? They would monitor the system for suspicious activity, meanwhile not getting overwritten themselves.

We were talking about system backup in order to avoid problems from loosing the operating system.Yes, while your data are in f:\, your program is installed somewhere like c:\program files. The important point is not the program location, but the other settings you don't see concerning this program, for instance the changes to the registry, or the startup of subservers and associated Ethernet ports!
So, it's interesting to have a backup of all this, able to be rapidly restored while the user date are not disturbed in the f:\ partition.

Alright, that sounds good.

Thank you guys for your suggestions.

BSOD regarding, my guess is that a virus may have infact been causing it - I am no longer getting any BSODs since when I nuked my computer with anti virus applications.

And thank you, everyone, for your time and patience given while we tried to sort out this issue.

But still installing software would recuire the OS portion to be "read and write".I think that's what everybody else ment.

Installing software shouldn't require that the base OS files be written over.

Still off-topic,Maybe you can see a nice poll example here :
http://forums.xisto.com/topic/97507-topic/?findpost=1064407040
The question is "how is it?" and you express yourself by means of choosing between "Very good" or "good" or "bad" or "very bad"
So, you create a poll when you want people to vote for an idea or against an idea (a poll with two ansers "yes" and "no") or if you want to know which thing people prefer, letting them choose between several options (What do you drink ? Beer, wine, champagne, fruit juice, water, something else?)

Exactly, that's a fine example.

I think the main idea here is; you want the answers of the poll to be directly relevant to the question asked. That way, the answers can give you an idea of what the community is trying to say when they answer it, whereas irrelevant answers will throw the statistics off.

Portableapps has ClamWin antivirus. You should use it each time you come back home after having plugged your jumpdrive in a computer.

Wait, since ClamWin is portable, would you keep it in your flash disk? I think you'd be infected the moment the flash drive is plugged in :\

If your C disk is 220 GB when it's quite a problem, what do you store there?
Usually the operating system takes only 20-40 GB with the required applications, you don't need to store anything else in a backup, you can hold all your documents, movies, music, pictures in some other partition..

Of course, it's Windows fault, that it uses C disk to store everything, pictures, desktop and etc. But you can overcome this by just using a backup utility windows offers or some 3d party software which can backup your operating system and installed programs into lets say ~20-40 GB backup, where you can choose what to backup.

Usually when you buy a laptop/desktop it comes with a backup partition and some kind of a backup utility already installed.

I think the point is to backup the documents, movies, music, pictures, etc., not necessarily the os. The os can be reinstalled, documents can't.

This means that you need to organize your PC differently. Seems that you have your operating system and your data/movies on the same place! This is absolutely not safe!Next time you should organize your PC differently.
You should have at least two partitions, one devoted to the operating system (for windows, this is usually the "C" partition) and another partition devoted to your data, games, movies, photos, texts, spreadsheets, etc..
So, in case of problem in your data disk, you still have an operating system for trying to repair the data.
And if you loose your operating system, the data are still there, you simply need to re-install or restore your operating system, you loose no data.
In that case, system disks is very small because it has only microsoft windows and your applications (OpenOffice, Firefox for instance), so your ghost backup is rather small and you can have two copies of this backup (the initial one and the most recent one).

So, supposing I was going to install a program, would it go in C:\Program Files, or F:\Program files, supposing F was the other partition?

Bleh. Reading that is going to make me hesitate before inputting connecting my iPod or anything into a computer. :/
Is there anyway to prevent the device from getting infected with the virus if the computer you were plugging the device had a virus? I plug my jumpdrive in almost every computer I use (for PortableApps) so at the moment, I am wondering whether my jumpdrive is infected.

I'm pretty sure there's an immunizer somewhere out there on the internet.