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Re: rwhod: Connection refused
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Farzad FARID)
Sun Apr 14 23:23:01 1996
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 02:01:47 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Farzad FARID <farzy@publicis.fr>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960413125431.27953m-100000@inorganic5.chem.ufl.edu>
On Sat, 13 Apr 1996, Jon Lewis wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed that running rwhod on a system that uses the
> dummy module (sdummy) for virtual interfaces immediately locks up the
> system? Am I doing something wrong, or is rwhod broken?
I noticed this on Linux 1.2.12 + sdummy, the machine hung completely
whenever I started 'rusers' or 'nmbd' (the Samba netbios name server).
I was able to track down the problem by debugging nmbd and found that
the culprit was a network-directed UDP broadcast (a sendto() to the
address 194.51.107.255 on this particular computer).
The solution I found was to add '-broadcast' to each 'ifconfig dummyX'
call. I can't tell if this probleme is still present in recent 1.3 kernel
with IP aliasing, I'm too lazy to test it :) Maybe someone should test that.
Regards,
Farzad
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