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:



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