issues with ifplugd, dnsmasq and ipmasq
Dear all,
as suggested here
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~ctwardy/mol-debian-benh.html
I use ipmasq and dnsmasq to get networking under mol on my PowerBook G4.
Everything worked fine until recently when I stopped being able to plug
a network cable into my laptop at runtime and get outside networking.
After a bit of tweaking the reason appeared to be that the packet
filtering rules set up by ipmasq didn't get updated when ifplugd
installed a new interface (in my case eth0).
The fix I've found is to restart ipmasq and dnsmasq whenever a network
interface is added or removed by ifplugd by adding the following script
to /etc/ifplugd/action.d:
--
#!/bin/sh
/etc/init.d/ipmasq restart
/etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart
--
I'm surprised by these problems as it's now some time since I've updated
any of ifplugd, ipmasq, or dnsmasq:
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[log] $ zgrep -h "\<ip\|masq\|\<if" dpkg.log*.gz | sort -u | grep "upgrade"
2005-08-01 14:43:49 upgrade iptables 1.2.11-10 1.3.1-2
2005-08-01 14:48:19 upgrade ifrench-gut 1:1.0-17 1:1.0-18
2005-10-06 11:26:06 upgrade dnsmasq 2.22-2 2.23-1
2005-10-06 11:48:55 upgrade iptables 1.3.1-2 1.3.3-2
2005-10-06 11:49:22 upgrade ipchains 1.3.10-15 1.3.10-16
2005-10-21 15:05:01 upgrade ipmasq 4.0.2 4.0.4
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I wondered if anybody else using mol on a laptop in the same way I do
has had similar problem, and if anybody knew which program besides the
aforementioned one could be the source of this issue.
Thanks for your help!
Francois
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