Re: Ping with a 65510 bytes pack

Philippe Strauss (philou@sicel-home-1-4.urbanet.ch)
Sat, 19 Oct 1996 12:24:06 +0200 (MET DST)


Mike Kilburn wrote:
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>
>
> On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> >
> > Please reply to me directly, just a "yes, it fixes it" or "nope, my machine
> > still crashes" will do.
>
> I dont even see the problem and the patch makes no difference. What
> I see with the Win95 ping is when i > 39884 I no longer get replys
^^^^^^^^^^^
> from the Linux box. I did not see any output with tcpdump so I dont
> think Win95 even sent anything. This is with 2.0.23 and 2.0.23+patch
> on a LAN (no routers).
>

On win95 ping, -i control the TTL, not the packet size. -l control
the packet size. Could you try with the right option? Thanks.

-- 
Philippe Strauss, CH-1092 Belmont

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