Re: IP forwarding bug in 1.3.73

Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk)
Thu, 14 Mar 1996 16:28:53 +0000 (GMT)

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> The reply arrived to the ppp client but with bad UPD checksum and the IP
> address of the originator of the packet was also wrong. Also the size of the
> bogous reply was 319 bytes despite the 296 byte MTU. As I remember tcpdump
> told that it is a fragment. I can provide tcpdump output for that if required
> (but I left home the floppy which contains that).

Can you send me that please.

> 1.3.72 (or was it 1.3.71?) did not have this bug.

Its very important I know which of .71 or .72 broke it. So please try and
check.

> One more bug which is probably not related to that (in fact I did not notice
> anything bad related to it but it appeared in my kernlog):
>
> arp_cache_bind: fe06b59d backlogged
> arp_find: fe06b59d backlogged
> arp_run_bh: fe06b59d reinstalled
> arp_run_bh: entry fe06b59d was born dead

Just debugging info.

Alan

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