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To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa if_ed.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 25 Oct 1998 03:25:59 PST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 22:15:20 -0800
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>luigi       1998/10/25 03:25:59 PST
>
>  Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_2_2)
>    sys/i386/isa         if_ed.c 
>  Log:
>  Fix two problems which can occur with poor cabling:
>  1) the routine to compute length for non-std packets (too short
>     or too long) was off by 256 in almost all cases.
>  2) fixing the above triggered a bug in the bridging code causing
>     ed_ring_copy to be called with a negative length -> panic.
>  It is unlikely that you see the problem unless you use promisc mode,
>  bridging and poor cabling.

   This should not have been committed to the 2.2 branch first.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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