Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:41:49 +0100 (WEST) From: Joao Pagaime <jpsp@rccn.net> To: Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> Cc: "TFC WLAN 97/98 - IST - ext.2269 (8418269)" <wlan@feldspato.ist.utl.pt>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MTR and freeBSD 3.2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909271035060.94753-100000@atlas.rccn.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909242117430.20426-100000@mistress.oldserver.demon.nl>
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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
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