1.3.71 killed by TCP bogons

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Wed, 6 Mar 1996 23:10:02 -0600 (CST)

I remotely installed 1.3.71 on my home machine at about lunch time today.
Previously I had .57 running with an uptime of about 40 days and
apparently a couple meg in the send queues of closed TCP connections.
The .71 kernel ran for several hours with moderate web, ftp, and mail
activity, and a number of users logged on, when it decided to die.
Mgettys on the dialins stopped answering, telnet sessions would connect,
but never respond, etc. The console was filled with a message I didn't
get to see, allegedly referring to "TCP bogons". Probably from tcp_output.c:

printk("tcp_send_skb: attempt to queue a bogon.\n");

No other signs of difficulty appeared in my log files..

This kernel was built with the following networking options:
...
# Networking options
#
CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y
# CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y
# CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set
# CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE is not set
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y
CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y

#
# (it is safe to leave these untouched)
#
# CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set
CONFIG_INET_RARP=y
# CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set
# CONFIG_TCP_NAGLE_OFF is not set
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
...

Any ideas? I've moved back to 1.3.58 for the meantime (my .57 kernel got
overwritten about a month ago)...

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