From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 24 12:38:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC8B514CF8 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 12:38:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.105.241] (helo=mistress) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 11UbA9-0005V5-00; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 19:37:45 +0000 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 21:35:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders To: "TFC WLAN 97/98 - IST - ext.2269 (8418269)" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MTR and freeBSD 3.2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, TFC WLAN 97/98 - IST - ext.2269 (8418269) wrote: > > Hi > > MTR sometimes fails with a nice message like > "You've got a broken (FreeBSD?) system". > > Is there a solution? > > We have MTR v0.37 and FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE > There are two solutions, on current anyway (i don't have 3.2 to test). 1. install from ports (which has a patch which does 2:) 2. compile with disabling this error message: change BSDfix to 1 in net.c I've been in touch with the maintainer of mtr about this. It has something to do with wrong field lengths. He told me to complain to the FreeBSD team, so I forwarded his message to this list. I have neither the talents nor the inclination to find out what this is exactly about and who is right or wrong :-) Hope one of the above (I woudl suggest ports) works for you. Succes! Marc -- Marc Schneiders marc@venster.nl marc@oldserver.demon.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message