IP binding-loss, buggy Wireshark, virtual machine networking

[chaosbuddha]

Hi There!

I'm running BT 5 rc1 (64-bit) KDE on my machine. My ethernet card reads Atheros AR8132 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20) and I use Virtualbox (virtualbox-4.1_4.1.2-73507~Ubuntu~lucid_amd64) to run my virtual test-machines.
And I'm running into the following problems:

I usually have static IP for my ethernet card. The problem is that the IP and gateway bindings keep getting re-initialized after every 2-3 minutes. Which means that I need to keep doing (ifconfig IP/MASK; route add default gw GW_IP) after every few minutes. Somehow the resolv.conf remains untouched..
Somebody help me...


Buggy Wireshark: Typing "wireshark" onto bash says
"wireshark: error while loading shared libraries: libwsutil.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".
Doing "whereis wireshark" gives
wireshark: /usr/local/bin/wireshark /usr/local/lib/wireshark
Which means that wireshark seems to be installed but not running..



I normally have the following adapter-settings for my virtual-box machines:
Adapter 1:
PCnet-FAST III or Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (NAT)

Adapter 2:
PCnet-FAST III or Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Bridged adapter, eth0)

Adapter 4:
PCnet-FAST III or Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Host-only adapter, 'vboxnet0')

I'm not able to sniff "outgoing" packets from the machines using wireshark on any of these interfaces. For instance if I open the index page of a test-website running on one of the machines from another machine (or from the host itself), I can see all the incoming handshake and subsequent data packets but none of the outgoing request packets.. The packets seem to be getting "trasferred internally" through some kind of software-interface than actually being sent out from the interface. I'm clueless about how do I get around this issue.



I also need to assign separate IPs to each one of the interfaces and set up a mini-net so that services available on one IP / interface are accessible from another IP / interface on another machine. Could anybody kindly help me go about it?



I downloaded holynix and I need to run it as a pre-built machine (contains following files: holynix2.nvram, holynix2.vmdk, holynix2.vmsd, holynix2.vmx, holynix2.vmxf) on Virtualbox. Now Virtualbox isn't recognizing the files as a separate machine - how do I get around it?

[docbop]

I had the same problem and resolved it by doing

apt-get dist-upgrade

[chaosbuddha]

Somebody pleeez help me.. The networking stop issue has become a real pain in the neck...

In the meantime I solved the wireshark problem:

Buggy Wireshark: Typing "wireshark" onto bash says
"wireshark: error while loading shared libraries: libwsutil.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".
Doing "whereis wireshark" gives
wireshark: /usr/local/bin/wireshark /usr/local/lib/wireshark
Which means that wireshark seems to be installed but not running..

by doing

apt-get dist-upgrade

But now apt-get itself is running erroneous:

apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
whatweb
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/724kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 232987 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace whatweb 0.4.7-bt3 (using .../whatweb_0.4.8-bt0_all.deb) ...
installing ruby gems for increased functionality
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/ruby1.8 to provide /usr/bin/ruby (ruby) in manual mode.
Successfully installed em-resolv-replace-1.1.1
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for em-resolv-replace-1.1.1...
Installing RDoc documentation for em-resolv-replace-1.1.1...
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
too many connection resets (http://production.cf.rubygems.org/gems/json-1.6.1.gem)
ERROR: http://rubygems.org/ does not appear to be a repository
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'bson_ext' (>= 0) in any repository
ERROR: http://rubygems.org/ does not appear to be a repository
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'mongo' (>= 0) in any repository
ERROR: http://rubygems.org/ does not appear to be a repository
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'rchardet' (>= 0) in any repository
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/ruby1.9.2 to provide /usr/bin/ruby (ruby) in manual mode.
ERROR: http://rubygems.org/ does not appear to be a repository
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'em-resolv-replace' (>= 0) in any repository
ERROR: http://rubygems.org/ does not appear to be a repository
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'json' (>= 0) in any repository
ERROR: http://rubygems.org/ does not appear to be a repository
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'bson_ext' (>= 0) in any repository
ERROR: http://rubygems.org/ does not appear to be a repository
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'mongo' (>= 0) in any repository
ERROR: http://rubygems.org/ does not appear to be a repository
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'rchardet' (>= 0) in any repository
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/whatweb_0.4.8-bt0_all.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 ran
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/whatweb_0.4.8-bt0_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This happens only when the networking stops all by itself.. (or if I simply do ifconfig eth0 down) - apt-get simply hangs in there waiting for I-don't-know-what....
It seems this error is because of some issue between debian repositories and Ruby.. So I downloaded and installed RubyGems from here and ran apt-get dist-upgrade again - it simply threw up the same error again..

Can anybody help me that?!