Linux 3.10-rc2

So it's been just over a week, and -rc2 is out. For being an -rc2, it's not unreasonably sized, but I did take a few pulls that I wouldn't have taken later in the rc series. So it's not exactly small either. We've got arch updates (PPC, MIPS, ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2013 - 6:00 PM ET

Firewall IPCop : Presentation of the Web interface and administration

IPCop is a complete operating system that is based on an optimized Linux core with the goal of securing your network. After having presented its functions and installation in a previous tutorial, we will now detail in this guide the web ...

Review published on the January 16th, 2006 - 6:00 PM ET

[ 00/89] 3.7.6-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.7.6 release. There are 89 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know. Responses should be made ...

Message posted on the February 1st, 2013 - 8:10 AM ET

arp cache incomplete entries

Hi, I've noticed that, often, after establishing a connection to the local network, important entries in the ARP cache, such as that of my nameserver, appear as 'incomplete' and have not an associated hardware address. Connection to these hosts ...

Message posted on the October 11th, 2012 - 4:30 PM ET

Bug#668222: Overflowing arp table

Package: libcurl3 Version: 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze1 After upgrading to this version, none of the servers I maintain displayed any problems except for one machine that uses an ADSL broadband connection with RFC1483. Some years ago I managed to configure ...

Message posted on the April 9th, 2012 - 4:40 PM ET

Bug#668138: pbuilder-uml doesn't work anymore

Package: pbuilder-uml Version: 0.210 Recently I've upgraded my pbuilder (and pbuilder-uml) upto sid. Since the action it doesn't work. It always finishes with such log: $ pbuilder-user-mode-linux create --distribution testing Core dump limits : ...

Message posted on the April 9th, 2012 - 3:20 AM ET

[PATCH net V2 0/2] bonding:add aging mechanism to rlb table

Jiri Bohac(jbohac@suse.cz) found that once an IP address is recorded in the rlb hash table, it stays there indefinitely. If this IP address is migrated to a different host in the network, bonding still sends out ARP packets that poison other ...

Message posted on the March 22nd, 2012 - 3:50 AM ET

Bug#664767: Brcmsmac driver woes, possible regression?

Package: linux-2.6 Version: 3.2.9-1 Severity: normal Since the last days, I'm experiencing some unstability with the brcmsmac driver and get kernel traces like this in the logs: [ 210.896074] [ cut here ] [ 210.896138] WARNING: at /build/buildd- ...

Message posted on the March 20th, 2012 - 1:30 PM ET

Linux 3.3-rc4

So it's almost getting to be a habit: yet another -rc release that is delayed by a couple of days. However, this time I actually have an excuse. Well, an excuse other than my usual "Sue me, I'm disorganized and forgot". This time the ...

Message posted on the February 18th, 2012 - 7:30 PM ET

Tracking down unexpected ARP entries

I have a server running Debian Testing, kernel 2.6.39 with ethernet interfaces in 10.34.53.0/24 and 192.168.249.0/24. A remote subnet, 192.168.253.0/24, is reached across an IPsec VPN terminated by openswan on this server. I can ping 192.168.253.7: ...

Message posted on the December 10th, 2011 - 8:43 AM ET

Route cache problem.

Hi, My workstation has an incorrect route cache entry: assurancetourix:~> route -nC | head -2 ; route -nC | grep 234.34 Kernel IP routing cache Source Destination Gateway Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.235.8 ...

Message posted on the November 3rd, 2011 - 9:50 AM ET

Linux 3.0.2

I'm announcing the release of the 3.0.2 kernel. All users of the 3.0 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 3.0.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-3.0.y.git and can be browsed at the normal ...

Message posted on the August 15th, 2011 - 10:00 PM ET

unblock request for vzctl

Hi release team I'd like you to unblock vzctl. I have backported a number of important bugs from the upstream 3.0.24.2 source. Not all as not all affect Debian, but the packports can be considered to be important. The most important change in this ...

Message posted on the September 11th, 2010 - 4:40 PM ET

abnormal (excessive) number of arp requests on subnet?

I did a tcpdump like so: tcpdump -c 1000 -ennqti eth3 ( arp or icmp ) In a one minute period I get 1000 ARP requests. Is this normal? I reproduce below the traffic in case this helps diagnosis. The network is static, no new devices are being ...

Message posted on the July 10th, 2010 - 5:38 PM ET

arp entries