From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 27 2:41:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atlas.rccn.net (atlas.rccn.net [193.136.7.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD329151B5 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 02:41:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpsp@rccn.net) Received: (qmail 96873 invoked by uid 1021); 27 Sep 1999 09:41:49 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Sep 1999 09:41:49 -0000 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:41:49 +0100 (WEST) From: Joao Pagaime To: Marc Schneiders Cc: "TFC WLAN 97/98 - IST - ext.2269 (8418269)" , 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 Thanks for the tips I did try to "static int BSDfix = 1 ;", however mtr-0.41 core dumps and mtr-0.32 hangs... The strange thing is that it only fails some times... It is as if there's something on the stacks (TCP/IP) state that leads to the problem, under certain conditions. On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Marc Schneiders wrote: > 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