From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 27 4:49:14 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 222E914A2F for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 04:49:07 -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 11VZHF-00039C-00; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 11:49:05 +0000 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:47:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders To: Joao Pagaime 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 On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Joao Pagaime wrote: > > 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 There a re no problems with 0.39, which is in the ports (current) and current, at least not here. -- 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