Package: arpon Version: 1.90-1 Severity: normal In principal, arpon seems like the kind of tool that almost every machine would want installed.
The major issue I have encountered with it though is the inability of arpon to appropriately deal with networking devices that come and go. In this respect, when my machines with arpon first boot, arpon comes of the lack of network adaptors that haven't appeared yet and terminates (in my machines, eth0, eth1, and wlan0). Maybe arpon should start much later in the boot sequence? In addition, frequently I temporarily disable wireless and ethernet adaptors on my machines and I'm not confident that arpon is handling these conditions well at all. In my view, in order to become a truely indispensible tool, the arpon daemon needs to stop panicking when it finds that no devices are present and have some ability to know when adaptors arrive and depart. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages arpon depends on: ii libc6 2.9-26 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdumbnet1 1.12-3 A dumb, portable networking librar ii libnet1 1.1.4-2 library for the construction and h ii libpcap0.8 1.0.0-4 system interface for user-level pa ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip arpon recommends no packages. arpon suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
