[Samba] Not another SAMBA through a firewall post

[Brother Railgun of Reason]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 08:44:00PM -0800, randalls at bioinfo.wsu.edu wrote:
> Kevin,
> 
> Thanks for the response. I was kind of thinking along the same lines 
> as what you described.  I disabled the second NIC and every samba 
> started working through the firewall.  I even wrote a simple perl 
> socket server and made the same observations as I did with Samba.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Randall Svancara

It's always been a pretty good rule of thumb that you should not have 
two active interfaces on the same subnet in the same machine unless 
either they're bonded together on a single IP, or one is a listen-only 
monitoring interface.  It will almost invariably cause problems.  Even a 
machine dual-homed on two different but connected subnets will sometimes 
create issues.



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