RE: mysterious 2.0.33 crashes

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:49:06 +0100 (CET)

On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Klaus Lichtenwalder wrote:
> > Ok, let's try another guess. It's down in the network (masq?) code.
> > Maybe something that overwrites kernel structures? I dare to remind you
> > that I had strange routing effects on my isdn setup (ducking... ;-)
> >
> > Looks like the hw is way too different, but everybody is more or less
> > busy networking.
>
> If it's in masquerading or IP-multicasting, I'll find out soon since I disabled
> these features yesterday because I don't really need them yet.

And since then the machine is rock solid. This is what I disabled:

--- .config.tnix.1 Wed Feb 11 09:15:45 1998
+++ .config.tnix.2 Tue Feb 17 22:24:22 1998
@@ -60,30 +60,21 @@
#
# Networking options
#
-CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
+# CONFIG_FIREWALL is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ALIAS is not set
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y
-CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
+# CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set
# CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set
-CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
-CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE=y
-CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y
-
-#
-# Protocol-specific masquerading support will be built as modules.
-#
-CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y
-# CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG is not set
-CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y
+# CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set
CONFIG_IP_ROUTER=y
-CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m
+# CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set

#
# (it is safe to leave these untouched)
#
# CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set
-CONFIG_INET_RARP=m
+# CONFIG_INET_RARP is not set
# CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
# CONFIG_SKB_LARGE is not set

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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