Re: tcpdump broken after rh9 2.4.20-27.9 kernel upgrade

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On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 13:40, Robert Brown wrote:
> Robert Brown writes:
> BTW in answer to the question, "Why would the change of kernel affect
> the behavior of dumb network devices?"  I had considered the
> possibility that the device initialization for the NICs, as specified
> in /etc/modules.conf, was not being done the same in the new kernel.
> It had also been suggested that the new kernel might have discovered
> the devices in a different order than the old kernel did.

I understand that.  "Dumb network devices" is referring solely to the
hubs/switches on your network, not the interface on the server. 
*Obviously*, a host NIC/driver has the potential to be affected by any
stack changes in the kernel.  :)

-- 
Jason Dixon, RHCE
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net


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