#76384 relies on interface name to learn about framing

Package:
net-acct
Source:
net-acct
Description:
User-mode IP accounting daemon
Submitter:
Marc Haber
Date:
2005-07-18 03:59:11 UTC
Severity:
normal
#76384#5
Date:
2000-11-06 14:20:02 UTC
From:
To:
net-acct relies on the interface name to learn about the framing. This
works well usually, but not in setups where the NETLINK feature to
rename an interface is being used. We routinely rename the interfaces
so that their name shows the characterisation of the interface rather
than the network technology. For example, unt0 might be the name for
the first interface connected to an untrusted network, and int2 could
be the third interface in the system connected to an internal network.
Both interfaces could be ethernet, or token ring.

tcpdump does properly handle this, so I suspect there is some other
way to learn which network technology and which framing an interface
is using.

Greetings
Marc
#76384#8
Date:
2000-11-07 00:55:22 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,

just to inform all net-acct users: i just uploaded the 0.71-1 Version of
net-acct (from http://www.exorsus.net/projects/net-acct/net-acct-0.71-glibc2.tar.gz)
to debian's master FTP Server. This means shortly you will find the
up-to-date version of net-acct in the current unstable version of debian.

If you are interested, you can look at the attahed patch file for details.

Greetings
Bernd

PS: debian Bug Page on net-acct is on: http://bugs.debian.org/net-acct
I have fixed #76376, #66093, #58285 and #54419 (all debian specific)
#58074 is fixed in the 0.71 minor release.

Can somebody please look at the Bug #76384: relies on interface name to
learn about framing.