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

Daniel Taylor (dante@plethora.net)
Sat, 10 Apr 1999 22:52:06 -0500 (CDT)


Just for the record, on my systems:

Debian(potato) 2.2.1, fails, K6/300
Redhat 5.2, 2.2.5 works, PII/266

Both with kernels compiled with recent egcs snapshots.

Both with recent egcs snapshots.

On 10 Apr 1999, Mark Montague wrote:

> Gregory Maxwell <linker@z.ml.org> writes:
>
> > Can you all *PLEASE* report what cpu you have with these problems as well
> > as your compiler and what cpu you selected in kernel compliation?
> >
> > It appears to be a checksumming problem, and Linux has asm optimizations
> > for packet checksumming, so perhaps there is a bug in one of the
> > checksumming routienes.. Davem?
>
> More weirdness:
>
> Now, I don't see it on 2.2.5, gcc 2.7.2.3, Debian Slink + some
> upgrades, dual PPRo 200, EEPro100, but a yesterday I tried it with
> 2.2.3 and saw the problem. I don't think I've updated netbase;
> currently it's 3.12-2, and I don't know when I upgraded from the
> 3.11-1.2 in slink. Sorry I didn't note info on the exect config when I
> did test it, but maybe other Debian people should see if
> netbase_3.12-2 fixes it for them, too.
>
> - M
>
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