Re: Token Ring Bug (Broadcast and Multicast address check)

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Thu, 6 May 1999 20:15:02 +0400 (MSK DST)


Hello!

> byte with 0x80 and not 1 when checking for a broadcast or multicast
> address.

Excellent! This puzzle bedevils me for year or so...
And nobody was able to give any intelligible answer 8)

Let me one question to complete the picture: the same bit
of tr source address is TR_RII. Is it true? Do another magic
bits exist?

Also, could you write tr_header_parse routine to fetch
source address? (Look at eth_header_parse)

BTW, could you send me piece of "tcpdump -p -e" with samples
of multicast packets originated by another hosts?

> This bug can be reproduced by setting an LAA of 4fffffffffff which is a
> valid
> single node address on TR. We get neighbour table overflow messages
> from the
> kernel

I do not understand this. Even if it is misinterpreted, neigh table
overflow is not explained yet.

Alexey

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