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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:17:15 -0500
To: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Netcards
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At 10:38 PM 1/12/98 +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote:
>dennis <dennis@etinc.com> writes:
>
>> >  This is raw socket stuff is interesting.  Example source please.  I
>> >don't believe this problem exists anymore.  I know that Julian fixed
>> >problems with routing sockets.  As a side point, routing sockets and raw
>> >sockets can only be accessed by root processes.
>> 
>> Just look in raw_usrreq(). the default case is a panic. 
>
>Fixed in revision 1.12 as of April 27, 1997.
>
>Do you have anything else?  (I don't think any of us want panic()s to
>occur for userland errors, though I think they often are the correct
>path for a kernel error.)

2.2.5-RELEASE is shipped with v1.8 which is dated 3/11/96, so something
is amiss. If it takes a year for these fixes to make it into a release it
doesnt
do anyone any good...

dennis