Re: 2.2.x kernels missend odd-sized ICMP packets

admin (rewt@lunar.porus.net)
Fri, 9 Apr 1999 09:33:26 -0400


lunar# ping -qs 12 localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 12 data bytes

--- localhost ping statistics ---
12 packets transmitted, 12 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.4/0.4/0.5 ms
lunar#

-----Original Message-----
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
To: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
<linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>; linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
<linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Friday, April 09, 1999 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: 2.2.x kernels missend odd-sized ICMP packets

>Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> said:
>> Alan Cox wrote:
>> > > [No networking at all]
>> > What compiler are you using ?
>
>> Egcs 2.91.63. The results amoung my friends seem to correlate it's an
>> egcs problem.
>
>Several of the later egcs snapshots built kernels that did do no
>networking, both on i586 and SPARC at least. The latest snapshot (19990405,
>aka 2.93.17) works fine again (that's what I'm currently using). egcs-1.1.2
>(aka 2.93.66) also works fine, but the above 2.91.63 (a pre-release for
>1.1.2, AFAIKT) did _not_ produce broken kernels AFAIR.
>
>Please upgrade your compiler to egcs-1.1.2.
>--
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