Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] zip ignoring gnireply
From: Albert Max Lai (amlai@columbia.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 14 1999 - 17:58:09 EST
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Danny Rice wrote:
If you are using the eepro100 driver, this is a sign that the multicast
filter is breaking. The multicast filter breaks at a limit greater than 3.
So, in your conf.modules add a line that says:
options eepro100 multicast_filter_limit=3
Due to this problem, I generated so much traffic on my network here on
campus to the point that the staff couldn't telnet into the hub to shut my
port down.
> Linux redhat 5.2
>
> I get 100s of these messages each day, usually in clusters like:
>
> Jan 13 09:47:10 siren atalkd[509]: zip gnireply from 44544.252 (eth0 b2)
> Jan 13 09:47:10 siren atalkd[509]: zip gnireply from 44544.52 (eth0 b2)
> Jan 13 09:47:10 siren atalkd[509]: zip gnireply from 44545.250 (eth0 b2)
> Jan 13 09:47:10 siren atalkd[509]: zip gnireply from 44545.253 (eth0 b2)
> Jan 13 09:47:10 siren atalkd[509]: zip ignoring gnireply
> Jan 13 09:47:10 siren atalkd[509]: zip ignoring gnireply
> Jan 13 09:47:10 siren atalkd[509]: zip ignoring gnireply
> Jan 13 09:47:10 siren atalkd[509]: zip ignoring gnireply
>
> What does it mean? Is this a problem? What is zip? Is 'zip' the zip
> compression program? Is it trying to talk to atalkd (locally?
> remotely?). If I uninstalled zip locally would these messages go away?
> Would that hurt anything if I don't use zip for anything else?
>
> Other zip messages I occasionally get are:
>
> Jan 13 09:36:44 siren atalkd[509]: zip gnireply from 44544.252 (eth0 12)
> Jan 13 09:36:44 siren atalkd[509]: zip_getnetinfo for eth0
> Jan 13 09:36:45 siren atalkd[509]: zip_packet configured eth0 from 44544.252
>
> Jan 13 09:36:53 siren atalkd[509]: zip skip reply 44544-44546 from 44544.52 (no query)
> Jan 13 09:36:53 siren atalkd[509]: zip skip reply 44544-44546 from 44545.250 (no query)
> Jan 13 09:36:53 siren atalkd[509]: zip skip reply 44544-44546 from 44545.253 (no query)
>
> Thanks, Danny
>
-- Albert Lai <amlai@columbia.edu> 1018D East Campus Residential Computer Consultant 411 W. 116th St. Columbia University New York, NY 10027 http://www.columbia.edu/~aml61 (212)853-4854
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