Re: Ping with a 65510 bytes pack

Bruno Kraychete da Costa (brunokc@ufba.br)
Sun, 20 Oct 1996 10:27:44 -0200 (GRNLNDDT)


On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Jon Lewis wrote:

> Ok...big red face...here's a version that does actually seem to work.
> It's lightly tested with my SMP linux 2.0.22 box and a coworker's Loser95
> box.
>
> Using it, I get info like:
> Oversized packet received from 205.229.58.128
>
> I get the correct number of syslog entries. I suspect the problem with
> the first one was that you ended up feeding syslog garbage.
>
> This will be really interesting to watch for in logs.

Yes, it worked on my non-SMP Linux 2.0.22. Now the IP address
where the big ping packet was originated figures on my /var/adm/syslog.
Thanks Jon !

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