Re: Ping with a 65510 bytes pack

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:42:55 +0100 (BST)

> Yes it fix the problem. Applied against 2.1.5 rather than 2.0.22.
> I will provide some dump of this strange icmp packet later.

This is indeed a combination of a windows 95 bug - apparently fixed in later
releases and a Linux bug when we construct a packet over 64K long (not valid)
Unfortunately the ip_send test program I had didnt build a packet that got
high enough up the stack after reassembly to cause an explosion.

Fun bug ;). Now perhaps you can get the tcp fixes into the 2.0.24 release
and the route cache leak fix hey Linus 8)