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Article #12959Major bug in QuickMail/MacTcp?
From: John Matthews
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 1990 22:05
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 1990 22:05
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We experienced a rather severe bug the other day with QuickMail. We aren't sure why, but the Mac started broadcasting ~150 ARP requests per second which put a tremendous load on every machine attached to our ethernet. The machine it was ARPing for responded to almost every request. The MAC appeared to ignore the responses completely. We called StarNine and told them about it. They said they had seen the problem before, but thought it only occurred if you configured a default gateway and it went down. This wasn't the case for us because we didn't have a default gateway configured. The host it was ARPing for was the primary mail server not a default gateway. They seemed to think it was a bug in MacTCP and not QuickMail but weren't sure. Has anyone seen this bug before? Thanks in advance, John Matthews matthews@uswat.uswest.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!boulder!uswat!matthews From: matthews@uswat.uswest.com (John Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Major bug in QuickMail/MacTcp? Message-ID: <9237@uswat.UUCP> Date: 3 Jul 90 22:05:07 GMT Sender: matthews@uswat.UUCP Reply-To: matthews@uswat.uswest.com (John Matthews) Organization: U S West Advanced Technologies Lines: 17