Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Jan 1999 21:52:09 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: 2.2 showstopper list: bootp autobooting stuff corrupts other hosts arp |
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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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