2d chance at Unity

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:41 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 04/19/2011 04:04 PM, NoOp wrote:
>> On 04/19/2011 03:20 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> ...
>>> [begin OT]
>>>
>>> Sorry for OT and hijacking, but since you brought the VMWare subject,
>>> how do you deal with the resident vmnet8 virtual board that generates
>>> an enormous amount of messages at /var/log whenever VMWare is off?
>>>
>>> Message n. 7 at
>>> http://communities.vmware.com/thread/49350;jsessionid=A905D175FC22F0D4EDEC2196D2D1B374
>>> among other things says "Sure, it will generate output in your log
>>> files, but other than that, there's not really anything to worry
>>> about" but I find it really annoying and have been "ifconfig vmnet8"
>>> at every startup. I wonder if there's something more elegant to do.
>>>
>>> [end OT]
>>
>> Hi Lucio. I hadn't noticed these. I'll check the logs on the laptop when
>> I reboot into Ubuntu & let you know what I find out.
>>
>> Gary
>
> Just booted to 10.10 & opened VMPlayer (3.1.4) and I don't see any of
> those messages in /var/log/messages. Nada, Zaro, nothing. The link you
> provided goes back to 2006, so I wonder if it's something from an older
> version and/or the iptables (I've no firewall) issue. Sorry, can't help you.


Yes you could, iptables indeed.

Firestarter off, ok.

Firestarter on:

~$ ifconfig

eth0 [ ]

lo [ ]

vmnet8    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:08
          inet addr:172.16.88.1  Bcast:172.16.88.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:293 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)


>From /var/log/messages:

Apr 19 22:52:45 lm-xfx kernel: [73753.117676] Unknown OutputIN=
OUT=vmnet8 SRC=172.16.88.1 DST=172.16.88.255 LEN=155 TOS=0x00
PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=17500 DPT=17500 LEN=135

Apr 19 22:52:52 lm-xfx kernel: [73760.061739] Unknown OutputIN=
OUT=vmnet8 SRC=172.16.88.1 DST=172.16.88.255 LEN=205 TOS=0x00
PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=185

Apr 19 22:52:53 lm-xfx kernel: [73761.061497] Unknown OutputIN=
OUT=vmnet8 SRC=172.16.88.1 DST=172.16.88.255 LEN=211 TOS=0x00
PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=191

Apr 19 22:53:02 lm-xfx kernel: [73769.798450] Unknown OutputIN=
OUT=vmnet8 SRC=172.16.88.1 DST=172.16.88.255 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00
TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58

etc., etc., etc...

Tks,

Lucio

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Lucio M. Nicolosi, Eng.
Open Source Platform Implementation
System and Applications
GNU/Linux - Ubuntu