Re: Ping with a 65510 bytes pack

Marin Purgar - PMC (pmc@asgard.hr)
Sun, 20 Oct 1996 15:43:01 +0100 (GMT+0100)


On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> Please reply to me directly, just a "yes, it fixes it" or "nope, my machine
> still crashes" will do.
>
> Thanks,
> Linus
>

Yes it works for us!

Tested with 2.0.18, 2.0.23, both of them freezing without patch pinged
with 65510 from NT machine. Patch applied to 2.0.23 fixed the problem :)
Thanx evetyone for fast patch ...

The target machine was i386 platform (Pentium/133).

Waiting for 2.0.24 :)

pmc@asgard.hr & puma@asgard.hr

p.s. Greets from Croatia!