http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5244
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The behaviour you saw with having to stop lisa twice is very weird.
The lisa configuration (if you're in auto mode, ie you haven't saved a
configuration) depends on the network devices that are available when lisa is
started (which is a reason why it might be an idea to restart lisa in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/if{up,down}.d so that lisa will work after you
connect a new network interface), so taking your network down, restarting lisa,
and taking it back up will essentially give you an empty config (unless you had
saved a config, in which case I would like to see the config you saved).
Maybe the problem is only on networks with a low netmask (ie large subnet)? But
it is not easy to decide when to start lisa by default or not based on subnet
size (which could be variable), although it could be possible to avoid using a
255.0.0.0 subnet (which may be popular on some ISPs I guess?).
It might be valuable to avoid configuring lisa for ppp connections, but the
original poster would need to provide the information I asked for above.
zeb, are you running the same kernel on the affected machines? Does LAN browing
work on your new install?
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I have the LAN at 10.0.0.0/8. tcpdump shows that the lisa tries to do an ARP
request for probably all addresses in the network and literally bombards the net
with packets. I don't know what this might cause on a large network. To add to
this it continues these probes even after the LAN interface goes down.
This can also result in a costly problem. The following happened to me:
- I configured my notebook for GPRS over bluetooth
- I removed the LAN card from my notebook so it does not interfere with the
experiments
- I brought a PPP connection up
- The defaultroute was set to ppp0
- The lisa continued to send packets
- They all travelled to the phone, generating paid traffic :-(
The distribution is Mandrake 9.2 Beta 2
Proposed resolution: don't enable the server by default and document this
problem somewhere
