Re: Help! Everything is crashing!

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 28 Mar 1998 15:04:20 +0000 (GMT)


> I'd love to apply it. Anyway. It is possible that the fact that the
> following oopses are followed IMMEDIATELY by teardrop warnings, may not be
> a coincidence.

Very interesting

> The machine that recorded this stuff is running 2.0.31 w/ 2.0.29 networking,
> because after 24 hours of heavy stress testing on it barfed out a stream of
> oops-es and rebooted. This implies to me that either my problems are
> probably NOT the 2.0.30 network codes fault.

Of course the 2.0.29 networking doesnt have the teardrop fix in it..

> I'm just a lowly sysadmin, so I don't know what to do with these oopses
> other than send them to you.. dmesg said:

I need to the symbols tables from the matching kernel to be useful
(System.map)

> IP: Invalid IP fragment (offset > end) found from 198.137.241.30
> IP: Invalid IP fragment (offset > end) found from 198.137.241.30

Thats an attack ok. Not only do such packets not occur statistically often
but they wouldnt be coming from 'whitehouse.gov' apparently either

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