Re: socket problem

thoth@purplefrog.com
Tue, 04 Mar 1997 20:44:50 EST


thoth@purplefrog.com ,in message <199703042157.QAA03373@aviator.cis.ufl.edu>, w
rote:

>
> [We'll see if I successfully subscribed to this list.]
>
> Linux frop 2.0.25 #2 Mon Nov 18 15:32:26 EST 1996 i586
>
> I am the author of the netpipes package (version 3.2 released, 4.0 in
> development). I have run into what I think may be a kernel bug.
>
> While developing the ssl-auth encryption/authentication wrapper I have
> (intermittently) been getting a "Connection reset by peer" error when
> READING from a socket. Since the other end of the connection is not

OK, here's some more evidence for a kernel bug

type-a:2 $ dmesg | tail
ICMP: failed checksum from 206.72.129.44!
st0: No tape.
st0: No tape.
st0: No tape.
st0: No tape.
st0: No tape.
TCP: **bug**: copy=0, sk->mss=0
TCP: **bug**: copy=0, sk->mss=0
st0: No tape.
st0: No tape.

Anyone care to comment? Do I need to upgrade?

---
Bob Forsman                                   thoth@gainesville.fl.us
           http://www.gainesville.fl.us/~thoth/