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Re: anyone want to test alpha arpd patches/daemon?u

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Mar 13 23:30:06 1996

From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: layes@loran.com (Jonathan Layes)
Date: 	Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:53:18 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, bj0rn@blox.se, iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk
In-Reply-To: <199603121640.LAA07404@layes.loran.com> from "Jonathan Layes" at Mar 12, 96 11:40:51 am

> mechanism does not cope well with large netmasks (> class c).  If
> you want to convince yourself of this, set your netmask to something
> like 255.255.240.0 and try pinging every address in that space (no
> matter that the machines don't exist - Linux will still panic).

Are you still getting panic's off that with 1.3.72+. I had hoped that
the fixes that Alexey added would have made the problem go away.

Alan


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