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Re: udp packet storms - ping death
From: karl () bagpuss demon co uk (Karl Strickland)
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 00:38:20 +0000 (GMT)
ObBug: if you use the SunOS tmpfs, try cd /tmp; /usr/etc/mknod fifo p; ln fifo link; ls -ClFg link fifo ...but not at peak hours! Sun knows about it and after a year, there's still no fix. [As far as I know -- if there's one, I'd love to hear of it, so I can tell the computer center here to add the darn thing: after hearing of this one, they hacked the kernel and removed the mkfifo and mknod S_IFIFO system calls. <sigh>]
been looking into this & i know what the problem is - it happens on any special node, not just fifo's. sys/tmpfs/tmp_vnodeops.c needs fixing, but I dont have the source. ------------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Mailed using ELM on FreeBSD | Karl Strickland PGP 2.3a Public Key Available. | Internet: karl () bagpuss demon co uk |
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- Re: udp packet storms, (continued)
- Re: udp packet storms Perry E. Metzger (Nov 01)
- Re: udp packet storms Tim Newsham (Nov 01)
- Re: udp packet storms Pete Shipley (Nov 03)
- bizzare ftp stuff... Tim Scanlon (Nov 03)
- Re: udp packet storms Perry E. Metzger (Oct 31)
- Re: udp packet storms Charles Howes (Oct 31)
- Re: udp packet storms Mike Raffety (Nov 01)
- Re: udp packet storms David A. Wagner (Nov 01)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Charles Howes (Nov 02)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death David A. Wagner (Nov 02)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Karl Strickland (Nov 03)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Perry E. Metzger (Nov 02)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Michael Neuman (Nov 02)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Perry E. Metzger (Nov 03)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Dave Horsfall (Nov 03)
- Re: udp packet storms David A. Wagner (Nov 01)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Karl Strickland (Nov 03)
- tcpd on ultrix 4.3a Douglas Ray (Nov 02)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Joseph McDonald (Nov 02)
- Re: SunOS fatal bugs (was Re: udp packet storms - ping death) Darren Reed (Nov 03)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Charles Howes (Nov 03)
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