NetworkManager: A User's Review

[Charles Curley]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:00:41PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 April 2006 22:24, Charles Curley wrote:
> >On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:49:26PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:


> 
> Here's an interesting tidbit, I just had KwifiManager do a scan, and it 
> found another signal!  But I'm not detecting any stray accesses, and 
> this is not exactly a technical utopia in this neighborhhod.

Well, this is not exactly technotopia either, but Kismet detects 3-5
networks in my house. More if I walk downtown.

> 
> Here also is another interesting tidbit, once the dhclient has been 
> started, it doesn't go away, and has to be killed by finding it process 
> number and killing it.  After going back to fixed addresses and finally 
> getting things hooked up again, the log on the firewall was still being 
> bombarded with:
> Apr 26 22:30:48 gene dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.71.102 from 
> 00:14:a5:75:32:c9 via eth1
> Apr 26 22:30:48 gene dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.71.102 to 
> 00:14:a5:75:32:c9 via eth1
> Apr 26 22:31:00 gene dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.71.102 from 
> 00:14:a5:75:32:c9 via eth1
> Apr 26 22:31:00 gene dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.71.102 to 
> 00:14:a5:75:32:c9 via eth1
> 
> at semi-random intervals but 3-5 times a minute.
> 
> Should that not have been killed by a service network stop?

It *should* have been, if I read the code in ifdown-eth correctly. But
it looks like the dhcp client had other problems and may not have
noticed the shut down signal.

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