Re: 2.2 showstopper list: bootp autobooting stuff corrupts other hosts arp

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Sun, 3 Jan 1999 21:52:09 +0100


Hello,

> About this bootp error: I don't remember who exactly told me about this,
> but it was reportted to me that one Amnon (probably Amnon Shiloh) from
> the Mosix project found a very similar bug which caused Linux to report
> "it's me" on any arp request which it saw on the LAN in the short
> interval it waited to configure its real address from bootp.
> I got the impression that it was reported to the kernel developers, but
> if not then you can let me know and I'll try to dig the details.
>
> Please CC replies to me at amos@gezernet.co.il, as I'm not on the
> kernel mailing list.

I've already written a patch fixing this bug and I hope it will
get included in the kernel soon.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"Q: How to start hacking Linux?  A: vi /boot/vmlinuz"

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