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Troubleshooting·LPIC-2

Watching the wire, and telling the users

Objective 205.3 is network troubleshooting and 205.4 is notifying users. When configuration looks right and something still does not work, the packet capture is what ends the discussion. This guide captures real ICMP on the wire, explains the deadlock that killed one of these commands during authoring, and covers the two ways to tell people what is happening.

201: Networking Configuration Guide 16 of 29 Intermediate

One host. The dummy interface and bridge are created and removed by the page; the real interface is read but never reconfigured.
Server NameIP AddressOSRolesCPURAMHDD
LPIC2-A01192.168.0.78Ubuntu 26.04 LTSPrimary service host - BIND, Apache, Samba, Postfix. Topic 204 RAID runs on loop devices; this machine has no spare disk2 Core4 GB50 GB

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Use this for network troubleshooting, and for telling people what is happening. This matters because a capture filtered to the connection carrying it deadlocks - which happened during authoring and is kept on the page.

Before you start

  1. Three packets, actually on the wire

  2. The deadlock that killed a command during authoring

  3. Telling people what is happening

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