On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Francis Vidal wrote: > > > I've just received e-mail about a bug in the kernel which causes linux > > > to reboot when the following ping is issued from windowz 95 : "ping -l > > > 65510 linux.box.IP.address" .. I tried it and sure enough linux dies > > > quickly and without any warning ... > > > > Sorry for a late reply, but I just tested this on our LAN, from Win95 to > > linux 1.2.13 and it doesn't crash. > > only the newer kernels (2.0.x) are affected by the bug.