🚀 go-pugleaf

Alan Cox (iiitac@swan.pyr) wrote:
: In article <2j7tpj$98h@lsupoz.apana.org.au> smilie@lsupoz.apana.org.au (Anthony Rumble) writes:
: >Bah.. ALl these problems with the standard networking in Linux..
: >
: >Beta-4 is sitting there running REALLY REALLY well and stable..
: >I haven't had a crash AT ALL.. and ive been running beta-4 since
: >last week..
: >
: Oh yes and this is a bug in the code that fixes the AT1500 driver properly
: I don't believe net2e even supports it. Do you have Nagle working properly
: yet.

: For the bored try binding a tcp socket in 2eb4 and connecting it to itself
: or maybe using TCP options before TCP_MSS or at least on 2E BETA3 you

I thought there was a check to prevent a tcp socket trying to connect to
itself.
(this appears to be something which is not mentioned in any RFC's, should
it work or not?)

: could remotely crash any 2E beta3 machine by sending it a TCP_MSS with
: an option length of 0... All of those happen in the real world.


: >Hmm.. I wish someone would get the two camps to talk and get the
: >fixed code into the kernel.
: >

Looking at the patches there appears in someways with the network code to
be a change it this way, change it back.. e.g. with the memory management
in /usr/src/linux/net/inet/arp.c