Re: IPX broadcast forwarding in 2.4.1 kernels

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Em Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 05:53:38PM +0100, J.R. de Jong escreveu:
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> 
> > Em Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:21:07AM +0100, J.R. de Jong escreveu:
> > > Anyway, our main server died (it wasn't me!) which is another reason to
> > > wait for tomorrow to get consistent results (the other being that I'm too
> > > tired right now to run the right kernel, leading me to send you wrong data
> > > before).
> > 
> > Ok, so please test this patch, that has that small damn bug (!= should be
> > ==) fixed, I think it'll cure the bug, when you confirm that I'll submit it
> > for inclusion, ok?
> 
> Congrats, I'm not broadcasting anymore!! I tried your patch on
> 2.4.2-ac7. Now I only get normal arp reply messages in tcpdump. Also, in
> iptraf I'm only sending out 21 non-IP (ipx) packages in five
> minutes, exactly in correspondence with tcpdump output. 
> 
> I guess it's not an issue anymore to put any logs on http and I think you
> can safely submit the patch.

<SNIP>
 
> Anyway, the spamming bug seems to have been solved. Good work =)

Thanks, and kudos to you for the testing work! Thanks a lot, I'll be doing
further work that will make IPX code more readable and stable on SMP, now
I have to send a patch to Alan and David 8)

- Arnaldo
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