>>On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, M Shariful Anam 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.
>>Maybe it happens on newer kernels ?
>
> Well, trying it here with 2.0.22 on the machine didn't cause any trouble.
> The ping requests timed out, but other than that nothing bad happened.
I've tried it on kernel 2.0.22 and it reboots the system. Time to get the
patch.
Jacek.
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