Hi Chris,
I'm sorry for not getting back with you about the
INSNFS script. I'll try to finish up the fix for it
today. I had a car accident yesterday, so things are a
little screwed up. Luckily, I'm okay. The car is dead,
so it'll be an interesting week comming up.
-Octave
--- Chris Lumens <chris@slackware.com> wrote:
> > ping compiled with egcs-1.1.2 is broken. Anyone
> who's tried it out has
> > noticed that. It doesn't ever get any return
> packets.
>
> Just letting everyone know of my progress on the
> ping problem. I whipped
> out ethereal on my workstation and got to pinging it
> from various
> computers. When I sent a ping from my NeXT, my
> workstation sent back a
> response. But when I sent a ping from an Alpha, no
> response was sent.
>
> Digging deeper into the contents of the ping packet
> from the Alpha
> revealed that the checksum was incorrect. I then
> turned to the ICMP RFC
> (RFC 792) to find out if a bad checksum meant that
> no reply was to be
> sent. I didn't find anything out there.
>
> But that's what I'm going to bet is going on. I
> believe that the checksum
> code in ping is incorrectly calculating the checksum
> by making assumptions
> that the machine is 32-bit. I also believe that the
> reason ping built
> with ccc doesn't work is because ccc takes some
> special precautions to
> make sure that alignment isn't out of whack and all
> that.
>
> So, I'll be spending the next several hours trying
> to patch up the ping
> checksum code and seeing if that fixes the problem.
> If so, I'll have a
> patch ready as soon as I'm done. If not, who knows.
> I guess it'll be
> back to ethereal.
>
> --
> Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
>
@n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
> print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place
> random string here')),"\n";
>
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