> On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Jacek Radajewski wrote:
> > I've just received e-mail about a bug in the kernel which causes linux
> > to reboot when the following ping is issued from windowz 95 : "ping -l
> > 65510 linux.box.IP.address" .. I tried it and sure enough linux dies
> > quickly and without any warning ...
>
> Sorry for a late reply, but I just tested this on our LAN, from Win95 to
> linux 1.2.13 and it doesn't crash.
only the newer kernels (2.0.x) are affected by the bug.
... [ francis vidal ] systems administrator, @usls, univ. of st. la salle
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