Re: 2.2.7 - brief net loss, message logged

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Thu, 13 May 1999 13:10:23 +0100 (GMT)


On Wed, 12 May 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > eth0: insufficient memory; nuking packet
> > Last message repeated ~6000 times
>
> Under extreme machine torture only.

We had forgotten to enable syn cookies. Could this be related?

> > "Insufficient memory" is extremely unlikely, unless the condition was
> > actually caused by some barrage of packets, possibly maliciously.
>
> Check if there is an oops or a memory corruption moan before it

Nothing. Just firewall logs and noise about dropped source routed
packets.

Matthew.

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