Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2702 mails)

[samelash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Samy Elashmawy)]

Can the dummy device be removed with yast ?? or is this somethibng to be
done by hand ??

 
> It seems that the standard rc.config has the dummy device configured to
> yes...Well the ifconfig (netmask=255.255.255.255)for dummy captures all
> broadcast packets...so...Samba only sent broadcast packets to itself and
> they never made it to the network...This also includes responses to
> broadcast packets from other machines on the same subnet.
> 
> To see if this may be your problem type lsmod -a...if dummyX is listed then
> reconfigure rc.config to dummy=no and either reboot or go to /etc/rc.d/rcX.d
> directory and type the command ./S04dummy stop...
> 
> If you have dummy built in to the kernel just check the rc.config dummy
> parameter and set it to no and stop the dummy service as above.
> 
> This completely fixed all Samba problems on my machines and I was able to
> drop all but the plainest of configuration parameters for Samba...And the
> world has returned to normal(I think)...
> 
>  >>
>Good going. I don't use the dummy device so I didn't have this problem. 
>Another solution might be to ifconfig down the dummy device. Also, 
>tcpdump device will show you what messages are being sent and received by
any 
>particular interface device. That might be easier than the log file route
for 
>debugging this problem. 
>Joel
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