Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:08:24 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Ari Suutari <ari.suutari@syncrontech.com> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, chkno@dork.com, freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ip_dummynet.c:"*** OUCH! pipe should have been idle!" Message-ID: <20020115190824.C26495@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <200201151302.g0FD2dw92151@guinness.syncrontech.com> References: <20020114141539.A70340@iguana.icir.org> <20020115021839.A74391@iguana.icir.org> <20020115144045.J46269@sunbay.com> <200201151302.g0FD2dw92151@guinness.syncrontech.com>
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 03:11:18PM +0200, Ari Suutari wrote: > Hi, > > > > Also CC:ed to Brian Somers (who committed that change) and > > Ari Suutari who originally wrote natd(8). > > > > > > Cheers, > > Ruslan (who now wonders if the problem fixed in natd.c,v 1.2 was false). > > > > If I remember correctly I was just wondering about getting an > ENOBUFS error when the internet link was a slow one > (because packets could be arriving from local ethernet > much faster then a modem link can serve). Maybe I did think > that waiting with select would be better than just drop the > packet. Thinking it again it seems that dropping is not > a bad thing since it would occur also if there were no > natd running in similar situation. > > The correct fix would have been to silently drop the packet. > > But we have it corrected now :-) > OK, I have committed the "fix" in natd.c,v 1.39. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message
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