Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.2.x kernels missend odd-sized ICMP packets | Date | Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:07:03 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> said: > On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 01:56:29PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Redhat 5.9 here, I see the packet loss behavior. > > > Linux version 2.2.5 (root@student2-536.unh.edu) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 > > > 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #2 Mon Mar 29 03:25:09 EST 1999 > > > Of course, with all those qualifications I shouldn't wonder why...
> > Both Red Hat 5.9 and the latest Debian ship with a buggy "ping" > > program. This is nothing to do with the kernel
> Nor is it anything to do with ping per se -- I've tried compiling both > the iputils ping (which RedHat uses, iirc) and the netkit-base ping > (which Debian uses) under my glibc2.1/2.2/Debian unstable machine, > and neither worked.
egcs up to 1.1.2 miscompile the ping program from netkit-base if optimizing (function ip_cksum(), IIR the name C). I'd be surprised if the code base of the pings you tried is different at all. Tried at home with various egcs's + glibc-2.1.1pre1 on i586, linux-2.2.5, reported to the egcs folks. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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