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Tutorial: The Penguin's Practical Network Troubleshooting Guide

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LinuxPlanet; By Carla Schroder
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Linux has everything you need to do any kind of networking, plus it has eleventy-eight hundred different software utilities for network monitoring and troubleshooting. Today Carla Schroder shows how to pinpoint connectivity problems and how to map your network and all running services. This is handy not only for keeping tabs on everyday activities, but also to catch users running illicit hosts and services.

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...but doesn't work out of the box at least on FC4.

You have to load the PC speaker driver pcspkr by modprobing it. If your box still has an oldfashioned little beeper inside...
Good grief, that sounds so weird! Gotta have that pcspeaker trouble beeps, how else will you know there's a problem? Other than nothing working, that is.

Show of hands: who remembers the early sound-card-and-speaker days, when a Hi-Val outfit cost $100, so the frugal geek would try a number of freeware hacks to pipe game soundtracks and other audio through the pc speaker? sounded soooo fine.....

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