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Re: Spontaneous reboots caused by bogons
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom May)
Fri Nov 17 15:26:50 1995
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 11:36:34 -0800
From: ftom@netcom.com (Tom May)
To: gpg109@rsphy1.anu.edu.au
CC: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
>I was toying with the idea of "if (ip_length <8) return;" but this
>is not really correct. Consider someone who writes a packet-sniffer
>application that is interested in Rx'ing these bogons to diagnose
>net problems. They would (silently) only get 34 bytes of the total
>packet if we did that. Too much like MicroSloth behaviour for me...
Fine. Perhaps a comment to the effect of "if iph->tot_len is invalid,
copy the entire packet because packet sniffers must be able to see it"
or something like that should be dropped in to the source.
Tom.
