[sllug-members]: Potential Suse 10.2 Bug in browsing

[Robert Lewis]

Allen Parker wrote:
> On 12/29/06, Robert Lewis <rll at felton.felton.ca.us> wrote:
>> ethereal was eliminated from the SUSE 10.2 distribution.
>> The ethereal WEB site hasn't rolled up a 10.2 version either.
>>
>> Bob
>
> Probably because it's called wireshark now.
>
> As a side note, I wouldn't blame SuSE's kernel or latest release, I
> know they've got a LOT of QA they do before they do RTM (release to
> market).
>
> Is the 10.2 box on a different subnet? 
No
> Can it reach other machines
> locally or globally (ie, can it ping the gateway, can it ping google,
> if you do 'ip route ls| grep default' can you arp -n the ip that's
> shown there?)
Yes.
>
> It's understandable to get frustrated when you have issues with
> software, however, it's not generally a good idea to blame the folks
> that provided you with a distribution (usually for free) for
> misconfiguration. 
This list has shown others with Fedora and Slakware having
the same issue. I am beginning to conclude that it is a linux kernel
issue rather than anything specific to SUSE.
> If you'd like an example of why this is bad, google
> "Tuttle Centos" and you'll find someone that wasn't a tech getting
> very upset over something that the distro folks (centos) had no
> control over.
>
> If the machine is pingable by other machines in the network, and you'd
> like a hand figuring things out, don't hesitate to ask me off-list for
> my phone #, i'll be glad to help as much as i can
Nice offer and I may take you up on that after I do a bit more home work!

Cheers<
Bob
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