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Re: Spontaneous reboots caused by bogons
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sun Nov 19 04:08:16 1995
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: ftom@netcom.com (Tom May)
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 00:09:36 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: gpg109@rsphy1.anu.edu.au, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199511161936.LAA21423@netcom15.netcom.com> from "Tom May" at Nov 16, 95 11:36:34 am
> >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.
The bogon fix isnt the answer. The new 8390 driver crashes the card still,
and its that which causes the errors (the ring buffer going out of sync).
Alan
