Package: dnet-common Version: 2.56 Followup-For: Bug #635604 Concur with previous reporters. I was experiencing mysterious network stalls on the two machines on which dnet-common had been hauled in as a dependency. It was only by serendipity that I figured out it was decnet stomping on my MAC addresses, such that both machines ended up with the same MAC address.
When dnet-common was installed, I was prompted for configuration, and selected "Configure later," believing (justifiably, I think) that the decnet infrastructure would not attempt to do anything weird or disruptive until I'd fully configured it. This is not the case. The default configuration is to alter the MAC address of all available interfaces. The workaround is to comment out everything in /etc/default/decnet. It is probably correct that aptitude should not have "helpfully" pulled in dnet-common as a recommendation of libdnet. However, I would still argue that dnet-common shouldn't be messing with fundamental network settings unless and until the administrator formally configures it and turns it on. Schwab -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dnet-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.40 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 4.0.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii module-init-tools 3.16-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo dnet-common recommends no packages. Versions of packages dnet-common suggests: ii iproute 20110629-1 networking and traffic control too -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/decnet changed [not included] -- debconf information: dnet-common/nodeaddr: 1.10 * dnet-common/configure-action: configure later dnet-common/nodename: linux dnet-common/warning: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org