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IP-masquerading & rplayd



Hi,

I have a couple more problems with that same customer who has the
Vibra16x. 

Please help me since I tried promoting Linux as a "stable and good working
system". The customer didn't mind no hebrew support.The problem is I can't
make work some important stuff :-(


But first I tell you what I did to make the vibra work:
I set it to standart SB16 settings in isapnp.conf (against it's own wishes
!!!) and it indeed works now. Including 16bit playback etc. This obviously
proofs that Creative is not 100% PnP conforming. And this from one of the
inventors of PnP !!!.

A connected problem is the rplayd. Is there anybody who has dvelved deep
into rplayd ? I tried reading it's readmes etc. but they somehow didn't
help me. It doesn't work most of the time (where a simple cat xx.au
>/dev/dsp works fine). I tried looking for some config files (I found some
in /usr/etc), but they seemed mainly network connected (rplay.hosts,
rplay.servers etc). Another point is, how can rplayd play streamed sounds
? like from an mp3 player or even realaudio ?. How do I disable the use of
rplayd by e.g. fvwm2 etc ?

Connected to this too is that I couldn't manage to get sound of neither
x11amp (which didn't seem to work well anyway), or xanim or mpeg_player
playing movies that I know have sound (checked on W95 box). How can I
debug all this stuff (e.g. see what path the sound takes, how the programs
are trying to play the sounds etc ???

In general, if there is somebody with experience in everything connected
to Linux & sound & mp3 & video & mpg etc, please speak up and help make
Linux more popular.

The other big problem is masquerading the network over an dialup-link. I
did everything like it said in the howto, checked ipfwadm -F -l, route
etc. it all seems ok (and exactly the same as at home where it works
GREAT). But, alas, no packet from network reaches ppp0 :-(. Again, how can
I debug this stuff ??? What can it be I did wrong ? the ipfwadm -F -l
outputs stuff like this:
acc/m all  localhost.home/24    anywhere             n/a

the default route points to ppp0

the masq modules are loaded.

tcpdump -i eth0 shows the packets
tcpdump -i ppp0 doesn't show them

How can I debug this, e.g. see where the packets get lost.

Also, is there any alternative to diald yet ?

Please help soon (before the customer gets disappointed in linux and asks
me to put in win95 instead :-( ).

Schlomo