Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon
had to walk into mine and say:
> :This is yet another problem that we have run into here. If you check the
> :digest for -hackers it was reported awhile ago (mike smith even cc-ed it
> :to security since it may have been a kernel stack overflow) . Anyway, the
> :problem is that IRIX defaults to 32K packets on TCP NFSv3 mounts, and
> :16K on UDP NFSv3 mounts. I recommend using UDP and setting rsize=8192,
> :wsize=8192 in your amd maps (as we do now, no problems at all).
> :
> :--
> :David Cross | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> :Systems Administrator/Research Programmer | Web: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd
>
> Ah ha! Yes, 32K packets will certainly screw up NFS under FreeBSD.
Uh.... could you elaborate a little? No, strike that: could you elaborate
a *lot*. A whole lot.
> We need to fix that panic to have it simply drop the packet, I guess.
No, we need to fix the code so it handles 32K "packets" (datagrams)
correctly.
-Bill
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