Re: Ping with a 65510 bytes pack

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Sat, 19 Oct 1996 19:05:09 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Bruno Kraychete da Costa wrote:

> It doesn't seem to work, Jon. I put the line above before put the big
> packet in trash. Take a look on what I got ... The address returned seemd
> to be kind of randomic. It should be 200.18.234.2. And I have only issued
> two big pings ... why do the syslog points 3 attempts ?!
>
> Oct 19 19:42:53 ZeTrovao kernel: Invalid packet size received from 0.240.155.0
> printk("Invalid packet size received from %s\n",in_ntoa(skb->saddr));
>
> Is there anything wrong ?!

Apparently this is why people like Alan and Eric write networking code and
I don't :( I must have assumed something I shouldn't have.

It would be really nice if someone posted a corrected version of what I
thought could be done.

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