Messages in this thread |  | | From | (wayne roberts) | Subject | arp_req_set() panic with bad ether address | Date | Sun, 1 Sep 1996 18:08:22 -0700 (PDT) |
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A stupid NT3.51 server is sending a bootps request with a bad hardware address. I put this bad address in /etc/bootptab, when bootpd received a request from that address, it caused a kernel panic. The bad address was two bytes too long. I've got bootp-2.4.3 and kernel 2.0.16 running. If i dont have the bad address in bootptab, everything is fine.
The issue would be: should bootpd check hardware addresses before arp_req_set() in the kernel sees them, or should the kernel arp functions check for bad ethernet hardware addresses.
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