Re: Ping with a 65510 bytes pack

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 21 Oct 1996 00:22:09 +0100 (BST)


> Is there anything other than someone trying to crash my box that would
> trigger the printk I added? One of our servers just logged this:
>
> Oversized packet received from 205.229.51.6

There shouldn't be anything else creating packets over 64K long. They
are basically illegal frames.

Alan