Re: [Netpass-users] MAC bugs?

[Jeff M. <jcm...@os...>]

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 14:59 -0400, Don Rugh wrote:
> Jeff,
> 
> - one section for padding MACs would be in NetPass::validateMac -- I  
> added a padMac() call there, and it did fix some issues, but I'm not  
> sure that's the correct fix....some debug messages show the entire  
> (padded?) MAC, and some other don't, so I'm not exactly sure where it  
> used padded and where it's not......

ok. i'll examine that routine.

> 
> -  the progress bar does not appear while the machine is being  
> scanned -- what mechanism is being used to update? Where do we need  
> to look for problems?
> 

we were under pressure to keep the progress bar non-JS. so it's somewhat
lame. we just print out an <img>. i guess we should look at buffering
(e.g. $|=1) and make sure the output isn't getting buffered somewhere.


> - we just noticed today that after NetPass scans a few computers,  
> nessusd needs to be HUPed -- it just refuses to scan any other  
> computers. This behavior does not occur via the nessus GUI.....have  
> you seen anything like this???

i've not seen that. we did apply a patch to nessus for a "zombie"
problem a while back where the sub-procs wouldn't be reaped. i think the
nessus folks accepted the patch, but i havent checked to be sure.

> 
> BTW, the cookie problem we were having last week was due to an update  
> (that I was initially unaware of) of a Perl module == Apache::Session  
> was updated from 0.19 to 0.20, and pretty much broke cookie  
> management for us. Backing down to 0.19 fixed the problem....haven't  
> checked back at CPAN for further updates, but you may want to beware....

thanks


> 
> Thanks for all your help!!
> 
> Regards,
> Don
> 
> On Jun 16, 2005, at 7:41 PM, jeff murphy wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 16:09 -0400, Don Rugh wrote:
> >
> >> Have there been any bugs fixed recently concerning how MAC address  
> >> are
> >> handled??
> >>
> >
> > no...
> >
> >
> >> Some things just don't quite seem to be working correctly. Some  
> >> places
> >> in the code pad for leading zero, yet others don't -- why is this
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > if a higher level routine pads, then we forgo it at the lower levels.
> > where, specifically, do you feel padding is not being done but should
> > be?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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