Thanks guys, much appreciated. I'll fix it up in the near future. I
guess I must have had it set up properly on the previous version as I
don't remember the broadcasts to ax25 before... Amazing what we (I)
forget as time whistles by.
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73 de Tom, ve7did
Tom Russo wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 09:46:12PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of
the <[email protected]> flavor, containing:
This is a well-known issue with kernel AX.25 networking and samba. Yes, by
default Samba binds to all network interfaces and sends out "I'm here" packets
to them.
There is indeed a way to shut it off.
In your smb.conf file you need to have an "interfaces" line that lists the
network interfaces you want samba to use. Then you have a
"bind interfaces only" line that tells samba to use *only* the interfaces
listed in that line.
If you use "swat" to manage your samba configuration, there's certainly a way
to do it there, too.
On the "Globals" page of the SWAT configuration tool, look under "Base Options"
and add your valid network interfaces to the "interfaces" box. Then set
"bind interfaces only" to "Yes" and commit changes, and restart your daemons.
It should no longer touch your ax.25 interfaces.
And if, as you say, you're not even *using* samba, you're better off shutting
off the daemon anyway. But if you *do* want to use it, you should probably
read the smb.conf man page and learn how to make it listen not only to
certain interfaces, but to certain valid IP addresses. You don't want your
samba to be sending out past your router, nor listening to anybody that's
not on your LAN.
Samba's a pain to secure, but once you get it right it is good for what it
does (sharing disks and printers to Windows clients --- you don't even need
to run the daemons to share disks and printers from Windows servers).
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