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Date:      Wed, 28 Jul 1999 19:40:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
To:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon)
Cc:        crossd@cs.rpi.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IRIX 6.5.4 NFS v3 TCP client + FreeBSD server = bewm
Message-ID:  <199907282340.TAA15454@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199907282309.QAA64183@apollo.backplane.com> from "Matthew Dillon" at Jul 28, 99 04:09:06 pm

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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon 
had to walk into mine and say:

> :This is yet another problem that we have run into here.  If you check the
> :digest for -hackers it was reported awhile ago (mike smith even cc-ed it
> :to security since it may have been a kernel stack overflow) .  Anyway, the
> :problem is that IRIX defaults to 32K packets on TCP NFSv3 mounts, and
> :16K on UDP NFSv3 mounts.  I recommend using UDP and setting rsize=8192,
> :wsize=8192 in your amd maps (as we do now, no problems at all).
> :
> :--
> :David Cross                               | email: crossd@cs.rpi.edu 
> :Systems Administrator/Research Programmer | Web: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd 
> 
>    Ah ha!  Yes, 32K packets will certainly screw up NFS under FreeBSD.

Uh.... could you elaborate a little? No, strike that: could you elaborate
a *lot*. A whole lot.
 
>    We need to fix that panic to have it simply drop the packet, I guess.

No, we need to fix the code so it handles 32K "packets" (datagrams)
correctly.

-Bill

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