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To: lozenko@cc.acnit.ac.ru (Evgeny A. Lozenko)
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Subject: Re: Superlong pings ( 99 K) 
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 19:39:51 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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In message <AAxRlhoKH2@cc.acnit.ac.ru>, Evgeny A. Lozenko writes:
>                        Hi !
>
>    We have readed http://www.sophist.demon.co.uk/ping about
>superlong pings ( above than 64K ) and it's possibility for crash
>some systems .  When we have tested our's FreeBSD 2.1.5 for this
>bug ,we successfully recieved ping about of 99K . Is it meaning
>that our's FreeBSD 2.1.5 is stable for the superlong pings?

A ping can't even be 64k long (read the RFC) so whatever you tested,
it wasn't 99K pings.

FreeBSD however is not victim to the bug that means that you can
kill Linux systems with a >appearantly< superlong ping.

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