so, having never used IPFW, does that really signify anything other than bad transmission? i mean, sounds like it could be a warning for corrupted packets? somebody explain that to me? --charlie pelletier --litmus(mp3.com/litmus) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter Brezny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 4:14 PM Subject: Re: Kernel log question "pullup failed"
> In the last episode (Sep 27), Peter Brezny said: > > Has anyone seen this before? > > > > > pullup failed > > > > what is it? > > It's an ipfw log message. It could certainly stand to be a bit > clearer :) > > From man ipfw: > > FINE POINTS > o There are circumstances where fragmented datagrams are > unconditionally dropped. TCP packets are dropped if they do > not contain at least 20 bytes of TCP header, UDP packets are > dropped if they do not contain a full 8 byte UDP header, and > ICMP packets are dropped if they do not contain 4 bytes of > ICMP header, enough to specify the ICMP type, code, and > checksum. These packets are simply logged as ``pullup > failed'' since there may not be enough good data in the packet > to produce a meaningful log entry. > > > > -- > Dan Nelson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
