Re: ICMP in 2.2.9 (was 3c575)

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Sat, 12 Jun 1999 16:31:02 +0400 (MSK DST)


Hello!

> 0xff not 0xffff). This bug is triggered very seldom in normal programs, the
> only one I know of, beside ping, is dhcpcd which uses the same in_chcksum
> function.

"Very seldom" is decrypted as any networking program using something
beyond TCP 8)

This in_cksum primitive is de facto standard function written ages
ago by some legendary person and copied from program to program.

Alexey

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