Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Jan 1997 05:57:03 -0500 (EST) | From | Charlie Ross <> | Subject | 2.1.21 bugs.. |
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Found a few bugs in the latest....
If i compile appletalk and ipip as modules... then they are missing symbols (so says depmod) I've had this problem since at least 2.1.5.. just wanted to let yall know that its still there...
The other thing... this one got me bad... i think the ipx stuff is a little screwey... heres my story.. its sad but true..
I am living on a college campus with an extensive network... I was sitting in my class bored to tears so I telneted over to my machine... downloaded the best modutils and kernel.. and built them... installed em.. depmoded them... etc.. and went ahead and rebooted thinking that if smthing went wrong it would just lock up and I could fix it upon return to my room. this was at 11:00 well.. after rebooting... it looked as if it came up half way... I could ping it but couldnt telnet in, couldnt see it on the appletalk network, or novell... it looked like my net drivers were screwey or somthing... but no big deal.. I didnt panic and just said to myself that I would get back to it later and fix whatever had gone nuts. For the rest of the day the campus net was acting very odd... the novell servers (real servers mind you) were acting wierd... win95's network stuff was odd... computers lost and gained their novel, and tcp/ip stuff at random and everything was strange.. at 3 I got a call from one of the schools sysadmins who was asking wether my machine was up... I said no, thinking I had crashed it this morning... and he explained how every ipx router on campus was routing to me. and that I had managed to halt a large portion of the network single handedly.. I told him that he was mistaken... I couldnt get to my machine at all... it must be halted. But after he told me that he had been packet sniffing since noon, and my machine was screaming bloody murder all over the ipx network I darted to my room too find my machine up and happy running the new kernel with the network card blasting. I killed my nwserv daemon and the campus went back to normal. Heres the wierd part... it only effected the area immediately surrounding my machine.. and an entire subnet it wasnt even a subnet I was in! The reason I couldnt telnet in to my machine was b/c the network was dead in my dorm. I had killed it too. As soon as nwserv died.. my dorm, the missing subnet and all the rest of the wierdness went back to normal...
Now I am not a novell expert at all.. but I think I found some of my problem... here is the /tmp/nw.routes that nwserv maintains...
My machine is named spiff, my ether adress is 00:00:C0:31:AD:71, and my gateway's ether address is 00:00:0C:05:95:9F...
Fri Jan 17 04:32:05 1997 <--------- Devices ----------------> DevName Frame Ticks Network Status eth0 ETHERNET_II 1 00000105 ADDED <--------- Routing Table ----------> Network Hops Ticks RouterNet Router Node 00000101 3 10 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00000100 3 9 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00000001 3 9 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00000002 3 10 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00000102 3 9 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00000005 3 10 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00000107 3 9 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00000006 1 2 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00000106 3 9 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00000007 3 9 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 12345678 4 11 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f <--- HUH? 00000008 3 9 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00000108 3 9 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00000009 4 11 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00000111 3 9 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00000011 3 9 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00000120 3 9 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00001236 3 10 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00001222 3 10 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00001223 3 10 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00001227 4 11 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00001224 3 10 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00001225 4 11 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00001229 3 10 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f 00000555 4 11 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f C0E64B08 4 11 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f <--- HUH? C0E64B07 4 11 00000105 00:00:0c:05:95:9f <--- HUH? <--------- Server Table ----------> Name Typ RouterNet Hops Server-Address SPIFF 4 8AEA9002 0 8A:EA:90:02,00:00:00:00:00:01,04:51 MARS 4 00000105 3 00:00:12:36,00:00:00:00:00:01,04:51 MOON 4 00000105 3 00:00:12:24,00:00:00:00:00:01,04:51 NEPTUNE 4 00000105 3 00:00:12:29,00:00:00:00:00:01,04:51 MERCURY 4 00000105 3 00:00:12:22,00:00:00:00:00:01,04:51 DINING 4 00000105 4 00:00:12:27,00:00:00:00:00:01,04:51 URANUS 4 00000105 4 00:00:12:25,00:00:00:00:00:01,04:51 GASD2 4 00000105 4 00:00:05:55,00:00:00:00:00:01,04;51
^This looks WRONG! ^Thats not like any server address I know.
Heres my /proc/net/ipx*:
/proc/net/ipx: Local_Address Remote_Address Tx_Queue Rx_Queue State Uid 8AEA9002:4000 Not_Connected 00000000 00000000 07 000 8AEA9002:0452 Not_Connected 00000000 00000000 07 000 8AEA9002:0453 Not_Connected 00000000 00000000 07 000 8AEA9002:4001 Not_Connected 00000000 00000000 07 000 8AEA9002:0451 Not_Connected 00000000 00000000 07 000 8AEA9002:4002 Not_Connected 00000000 00000000 07 000 8AEA9002:4003 Not_Connected 00000000 00000000 07 000
/proc/net/ipx_interface: Network Node_Address Primary Device Frame_Type 8AEA9002 000000000001 Yes Internal None 00000105 0000C031AD71 No eth0 EtherII
/proc/net/ipx_route: Network Router_Net Router_Node C0E64B07 00000105 00000C05959F C0E64B08 00000105 00000C05959F 00000555 00000105 00000C05959F 00001229 00000105 00000C05959F 00001225 00000105 00000C05959F 00001224 00000105 00000C05959F 00001227 00000105 00000C05959F 00001223 00000105 00000C05959F 00001222 00000105 00000C05959F 00001236 00000105 00000C05959F 00000120 00000105 00000C05959F 00000011 00000105 00000C05959F 00000111 00000105 00000C05959F 00000009 00000105 00000C05959F 00000108 00000105 00000C05959F 00000008 00000105 00000C05959F 12345678 00000105 00000C05959F 00000007 00000105 00000C05959F 00000106 00000105 00000C05959F 00000006 00000105 00000C05959F 00000107 00000105 00000C05959F 00000005 00000105 00000C05959F 00000102 00000105 00000C05959F 00000002 00000105 00000C05959F 00000001 00000105 00000C05959F 00000100 00000105 00000C05959F 00000101 00000105 00000C05959F 00000105 Directly Connected 8AEA9002 Directly Connected
Anyway in the end... apparently some higher up profs were very angry and the school is thinking of having me charged criminaly and forcing me to pay them for the time to pay all the people who doing net-debug.
Please dont ask me to turn my ipx module back on for debugging purposes... I'm rather hesitant. :) unless somone would like files above from an earlier kernel that wont throttle my campus.
-Chuck
s253343@gettysburg.edu (717)-337-8212
"God is real, unless declared integer."
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