Re: Fwd: 2.0.24 - Apache Dies?

Franz Sirl (franz.sirl@lauterbach.com)
Mon, 4 Nov 1996 00:16:13 +0100

At 22:56 Uhr +0100 03.11.1996, Alan Cox wrote:
>> ->On a side note, on those machines running 2.0.24 netstat displays an
>> ->inordinate amount of sockets in the CLOSE and CLOSE_WAIT states.
>>
>> It always does that-- I noticed problems when I upgraded to 2.0.23 and it
>> still exists in 2.0.24
>
>Does anyone know which release they saw this problem appear ?

Hmm, didn't see those during last few versions (used to have them), but I
have reversed the patch to tcp_output.c in 2.0.16. Could this patch be
involved?

This is from patch-2.0.16, apply it with -R:
--- v2.0.15/linux/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c Sat Aug 10 10:03:16 1996
+++ linux/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c Sun Aug 25 17:59:16 1996
@@ -966,8 +966,10 @@
sock_wfree(sk, buff);
return;
}
+#if 0 /* why does this result in problems? */
#ifndef CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY
buff->ip_hdr->frag_off |= htons(IP_DF);
+#endif
#endif

t1 =(struct tcphdr *)skb_put(buff,sizeof(struct tcphdr));

Ciao,
Franz Sirl.

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