http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5244
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-10-09 21:07 ------- Sorry, I have other things to do now, so don't expect further testing from me until weekend. I investigated a bit and my GPRS provider indeed uses 10.0.0.0/8 too :-( Anyway, the problem has nothing to do with ppp. It can be eth where it hurts (e.g. non-flatrate ADSL), it can be wlan, whatever. To try to guess thing based on the interface name is also not a good idea. Lisa seems to flood the whole network, regardless of what the network is. If the netmask is 255.0.0.0, it will probably send at least 16 millions of packets. I don't know what the lisa exactly does, I never used it and it was never installed and activated by default on other distros (I am trying Mandrake for the second time, but am a long time Linux user). I just don't think this is a sane behaviour and should IMHO not be present out of the box, if at all. Imagine a large network where every machine does the same. Imagine that they are on a slower connection (wlan) and they all start at the similar time (people booting the machines in the morning). I agree that this is probably a problem with lisa itself and not specifically with Mandrake. I will most probably file an upstream bugreport on the weekend. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEW creation_date: description: 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
