Re: avahi-daemon allow/deny interfaces question

2022-07-15 Thread Ram Ramesh
On 7/15/22 00:31, Ram Ramesh wrote: On 7/14/22 09:15, Ram Ramesh wrote: Hi Ramesh, There are numerous reports (mostly old, afaics) of the issue you describe, but with various suggested reasons. I suspect the avahi related part is a consequence rather than a cause - I didn't think avahi was

Re: avahi-daemon allow/deny interfaces question

2022-07-14 Thread Ram Ramesh
On 7/14/22 09:15, Ram Ramesh wrote: Hi Ramesh, There are numerous reports (mostly old, afaics) of the issue you describe, but with various suggested reasons. I suspect the avahi related part is a consequence rather than a cause - I didn't think avahi was capable of disabling interfaces, the

Re: avahi-daemon allow/deny interfaces question

2022-07-14 Thread Ram Ramesh
Hi Ramesh, There are numerous reports (mostly old, afaics) of the issue you describe, but with various suggested reasons. I suspect the avahi related part is a consequence rather than a cause - I didn't think avahi was capable of disabling interfaces, the message looks like it's updating a ta

Re: avahi-daemon allow/deny interfaces question

2022-07-13 Thread Gareth Evans
On Thu 14 Jul 2022, at 01:03, Ram Ramesh wrote: [...] > I take back some of what I said. It is both - I mean usb > autosupend+avahi_daemon. I need to keep the adaptor from autosuspending > and tell avahi-daemon not to disable the interface in the OS. > > I also found the power/control entry in /

Re: avahi-daemon allow/deny interfaces question

2022-07-13 Thread Ram Ramesh
Hi Ramesh, Please could you post some example daemon.log entries and any surrounding entries that seem related? Also is there anything in /var/log/syslog that seems to relate? Perhaps $ sudo cat /var/log/syslog | grep x where x = the interface name concerned. Thanks, Gareth Hi Gareth,

Re: avahi-daemon allow/deny interfaces question

2022-07-13 Thread Ram Ramesh
On 7/12/22 19:21, Ram Ramesh wrote: On 7/11/22 11:30, Ram Ramesh wrote: Experts,   I have a firewall machine built recently and it runs debian bullseye (v11). It has two ethernet interfaces - one internal ($intf) and one external ($extf). My external port runs dhclient to get its IP address

Re: avahi-daemon allow/deny interfaces question

2022-07-13 Thread Gareth Evans
On Wed 13 Jul 2022, at 01:21, Ram Ramesh wrote: > Do you know a simple way to disable autopowerdown of > just this usb NIC? May be there is something that I can do with ethtool? I wonder if powertop may be of use here. It has a "tunables" section where (I think) power-saving features can be

Re: avahi-daemon allow/deny interfaces question

2022-07-12 Thread Ram Ramesh
On 7/11/22 11:30, Ram Ramesh wrote: Experts,   I have a firewall machine built recently and it runs debian bullseye (v11). It has two ethernet interfaces - one internal ($intf) and one external ($extf). My external port runs dhclient to get its IP address and internal port runs dnsmasq to pro

Re: avahi-daemon allow/deny interfaces question

2022-07-12 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 11 Jul 2022, at 17:48, Ram Ramesh wrote: [...] > . However, my new machine has this daemon running which notices that $extif > does not have much activity and disables it after some timeout idle time. > Today I noticed that my $extif is vanishing and /var/log/daemon.log shows > some av

avahi-daemon allow/deny interfaces question

2022-07-11 Thread Ram Ramesh
Experts,   I have a firewall machine built recently and it runs debian bullseye (v11). It has two ethernet interfaces - one internal ($intf) and one external ($extf). My external port runs dhclient to get its IP address and internal port runs dnsmasq to provide DNS service to internal/protect