Package: dnet-common Version: 2.56 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software
when libroarcompat1 is installed, dnet-common is a recommended package brought in with libdnet when apt/aptitude is configured to bring in recommended packages. This caused the ethernet hardware address to be set to aa:00:04:00:0a:04, causing DHCP and telnet to fail, and also caused problems on one machine using ftp. A clear demonstration of the problem would be to run: # ifconfig eth0 which would show the new aa:00:04:00:0a:04 ethernet address, and then to run: # ifdown eth0 followed by # ifup eth0 If the DHCP server is only expecting the actual ethernet card's hardware address, the machine running dnet-common will fail to get an IP address. If the DHCP server issues IP addresses regardless of ethernet hardware addresses, the machine running dnet-common may a different IP address from when it started up, as the hardware address supplied by the machine is now different. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
