Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: [2.1.91-pre1] tcp wierdness and lockup | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 1998 20:29:58 +0000 (GMT) |
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> I have a friend that logs into my machine from a local ISP. > This ISP doesn't allow ping packets (perhaps any icmp, not sure?).
In which case he will not be able to use the internet. He should change provider immediately to an internet provider instead.
> logged in. However, after that, anything that requires a lot of output > (more than a few lines) locks his connection up hard. > (ls -la, xemacs, etc...)
This is bcause they have blocked ICMP. You cannot block all ICMP. Fortunately this ISP will go out of business when Win98 comes out as it uses MTU discovery and lower MTU's on slower links.
> Mar 25 10:15:46 jelerak kernel: kmalloc: Size (4294967220) too large > Mar 25 10:15:46 jelerak kernel: > Mar 25 10:15:46 jelerak kernel: IP: No memory available for IP forward
Whee thats a different bug. Dont think that is his ISP somehow. We tried to allocate a negative sized packet and the kernel broke
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