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[Netpass-users] MAC bugs?

[Don R. <don...@em...>]

Have there been any bugs fixed recently concerning how MAC address  
are handled?? 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

Thanks,
Don

Donald G. Rugh
Director of Network Services
Information Services
Saint Vincent College
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Re: [Netpass-users] MAC bugs?

[jeff m. <jcm...@os...>]

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?

Re: [Netpass-users] MAC bugs?

[Don R. <don...@em...>]

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......

-  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 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???

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 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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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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