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Steve Langasek wrote:
> severity 407435 important
> thanks
> 
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:33:04AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
>>>> Attached.
> 
>>> Nothing stands out to me in the trace.
> 
>>> You say that running tshark is necessary to trigger laptop-net to work
>>> correctly.  Is this the case if you run tshark with -p?
> 
>> If I run tshark with -p it has the broken behaviour.
> 
> Ok, then I don't think this is really a laptop-net bug at all.  The kernel
> shouldn't have to set its interface in promisc mode in order for laptop-net
> to receive responses to arp inquiries, and this seems to be a bug specific

I agree, it shouldn't.

> to your network config (or firewall config?), which is why I can't reproduce
> it.

The network config is a default one (well, as default as it can be
with laptop-net applied) got from a regular install in January and
the firewall policy is ACCEPT and there are no other rules.

Maybe a bug in the driver? The driver is b44.

> If the new version of libpcap works around this issue, updating laptop-net
> to the new libpcap sounds to me like it would be an ok change for etch, but
> this no longer appears to be RC in nature.

Except if is a driver issue in b44 :-) .

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Regards,
EddyP
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