From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 1 03:12:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA04034 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 03:12:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA04029 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 03:12:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA08484; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 03:14:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710011014.DAA08484@implode.root.com> To: Richard Jones cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD TCP stack and RST processing [subj changed] In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Oct 1997 19:48:34 +1000." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 03:14:55 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Your report lacks many important details, not >> the least of which is the versions of FreeBSD you've tested this with. >> "freefall" is running old code from about 4 months ago, and might very well >> not have some important fixes. > >Ok the other system tested was 2-2 Stable. implode.root.com exhibits the >same behaviour as does 204.216.27.21 (the real freefall as pointed out by >you in a later mail). implode.root.com is also running 2.1.7. One of these days I'll upgrade it, but it has some special hardware/device drivers that will need to be updated first. > The main reason I didn't provide version info >was that I thought it was an easy enough situation to replicate if it was >indeed replicatable. Unfortunately I know of no systems that are running >CURRENT to test upon. Thanks for the bug report. In the future, it's better to either file a PR via GNATS or send email to freebsd-bugs; you're more likely to get to the right people this way. I forwarded your original message to some people yesterday who might have some input on this. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project