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- NET2Debugged 1.24 README
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- Major Changes
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- o PLIP driver sort of works
- o UDP and RAW have been partially rewritten for speed
- o Internals heavily cleaned up, and memory monitoring of network
- memory is now done. (On shift-scroll-lock)
- o ARP should now not generate garbage
- o Using MSG_PEEK can't cause race conditions and crashes
- o Support for bootp clients.
- o Supports RFC931 TAP authd
- o NFS problems with certain types of network configuration are
- fixed.
- o Doesn't forward packets for other subnet (can cause packet storms)
- o TCP won't ack rst frames causing packet storms (especially with
- Lan workplace for DOS).
- o Numerous fixes for solidity
- o Verify_area used properly.
- o MSG_PEEK is faster again
- o Minor TCP fixes. Hopefully no more TCP lockups (ha!)
- o Donald's promiscuous mode. Go forth and write protocol analysers...
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- NOTE:
- Drivers for this stack set must be using alloc_skb() not just
- kmalloc. If you get millions of 'non sk_buff...' errors please check the
- driver you are using. All Donald's drivers know about this. If you have
- a problem driver replace all cases of
-
- .. =(struct sk_buff *)kmalloc(sizeof(struct sk_buff)+...
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- With
- ..=alloc_skb(sizeof(struct sk_buff)+...
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- And if it uses kfree_s on the packet change that to use kfree_skbmem().
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- Bug fixes and improvements for this section of the code should be mailed to
- iiitac@pyr.swan.ac.uk.
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- Alan
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