[5649] in bugtraq
Re: Windows 95 IP Fragmentation Bug Fix?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Leach)
Tue Nov 18 23:04:28 1997
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 15:14:41 -0800
Reply-To: Paul Leach <paulle@MICROSOFT.COM>
From: Paul Leach <paulle@MICROSOFT.COM>
X-To: Aleph One <aleph1@DFW.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
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> From: Aleph One[SMTP:aleph1@DFW.NET]
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 1997 8:37 PM
>
> <<File: pingfix.zip>>
> Thanks for to all of those that tested the fix program and reported back
> your results. Some of you experienced problems when installing the updated
> version of VIP.386. The reason is that it is designed to work only with
> Winsock 2 and will break all networking when installed under Winsock 1.
> The Knowledge Base article (Q154174) fails to mention this.
>
According to the Win95 TCP developer, this is not correct. He said:
"The fix that we released on web is for win95/osr2 machines. Released
winsock2 binaries contain vip.386 that already has this fix (I just looked
at the code), so if you are running winsock2, then you don't need any
additional fix to solve this problem."
So, it seems like there _ought_ to be a different explanation for whatever
is being observed. Hints, guesses, etc. would be appreciated.
Paul
