[7666] in testers
vmware interfaces on linux box
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Sun Dec 23 14:18:09 2007
Message-Id: <200712231916.lBNJGtvC026504@vorpal-blade.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:16:15 -0500
Hi,
After updating my linux box to the latest release, I noticed that I
had a couple of vmware interfaces created:
vorpal-blade:~$ athinfo vorp interfaces
Kernel Interface table
Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
eth0 1500 0 468397 0 52 0 66672 0 0 0 BMRU
lo 16436 0 46516 0 0 0 46516 0 0 0 LRU
vmnet1 1500 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 BMRU
vmnet8 1500 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 BMRU
I notice this doens't seem to have happened on any of the test cluster
machines, so it's possible that one of my customizations are at fault,
but it's possible that it's some differences between PUBLIC true and
false machines. Has anyone else seen these interfaces appear on their
linux (or sun, I suppose, though I haven't seen it there) boxes?
I'll note also that the existance of these interfaces interact poorly
with sendmail, since it tries and fails to reverse-resolve the 192.168
addresses assigned to them before doing anything, which adds a 40
second delay.
Jonathon
