2d chance at Unity

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:36 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

[huge snip]

G.,

- I have VMWare installed on my Maverick 64 with Network Type configured as NAT.

- I'm running Firestarter.

- When WMWare is off (most of the time) and vmnet8 is up (as on
startup) I keep receiving these messages, that clog my log files.

- According to the referred old link
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/49350;jsessionid=A905D175FC22F0D4EDEC2196D2D1B374
it seems that something in the Ubuntu host is trying to contact the
virtual net, in my case 172.16.88.1-255, but get no response since
although the virtual board, and router and DHCP are all configured and
running, VMWare is off.

- The src/des ports are (at least) 137/138  (samba), 631 (internet
printing, probably cups) and 17500 (dropbox), services installed in
the host.

- If I turn off Firestarter, the flow of messages, every few seconds,
stops, but...

- in this case, although unseen, shouldn't the requests still be
alive, waking up each every few seconds to consume (not so) precious
CPU cicles in my extremely underloaded Athlon X2, legacy, processor
(and no, I won't give it to you) in such an inelegant way?

- Thus, since I cannot shut off all these services, wouldn't my only
option be to shut of the vmnet8 offender as I usually do? (But then,
Linux never offers "only" options).

Do you think this line of thought could lead to somewhere or it is
just the usual plain BS?

Thanks for your patience.

Cheers,

Lucio

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