Package: laptop-net Version: 2.26-8 Severity: important I am using a setup with a static address and a catchall DHCP entry for other networks.
I am attempting to use arp-discovery to detect the static address network by using the ip-map table to probe the upstream gateway. At this point, detection fails: arp-discovery definitely sends out ARP packets, however they are never recieved by the network card. This network card has problems with multicast and other related stuff and has to be put in promiscuous mode to use such things, which may be causing this problem. It also may be an issue that arp-discovery produces arp packets with invalid from IP address. (0.0.0.0) Which may be confusing the gateway or causing the packets to get mislaid. In attempting to diagnose this problem I have looked through the entirety of the laptop-net shell scripts without finding any obvious knobs to turn and have run arp-discovery with the network card up and properly connected to the static network where it still failed to recieve any responses. Has anyone had any experience with this or similar issues before? and are there any tricks / hints that could get this to work for me? I have not included the debconf information as this information has been superceded by custom configuration in the schemes and ip-map files. I will include them if requested, however there is nothing overly special in them. Thanks, Julian Calaby -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-rc3 (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages laptop-net depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14 Debian configuration management sy ii ifupdown 0.6.8 high level tools to configure netw ii libc6 2.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libnet1 1.1.2.1-2 library for the construction and h ii libpcap0.8 0.9.5-1 System interface for user-level pa ii lockfile-progs 0.1.10 Programs for locking and unlocking ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre11-4 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii net-tools 1.60-17 The NET-3 networking toolkit laptop-net recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
