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Re: solaris (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Lockwood)
Sun Nov 9 18:44:56 1997

Date: 	Sun, 9 Nov 1997 13:48:50 -0800
Reply-To: James Lockwood <james@VANEYCK.GII.GETTY.EDU>
From: James Lockwood <james@VANEYCK.GII.GETTY.EDU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.971109143642.10529A-100000@vuser.vu.union.edu>

On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Rob Hagopian wrote:

> Got this forwarded to me, no idea on its age, but it did work on a
> solaris 2.5 machine:
>
> Looking to down a Solaris machine (works on almost all) try this simple command
> ping -sv -i 127.0.0.1 224.0.0.1

Tried it on a 2.5 machine with recommended patches (kernel Generic_103093-14)
as well as a 2.5.1 and a 2.6 machine with no result.

Looks like under 2.5 this is fixed with:

103169-12:

> Synopsis: SunOS 5.5: arp,ip,udp,icmp driver and ifconfig fixes

...

> Problem Description:
>
> 1226919 ping -sv -i 127.0.0.1 224.0.0.1 causes a panic
>
> (from 103169-11)

-James

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