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Re: ipx problem with 2.2.x



Hi Gregory,

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote:

> 
> There's an IPX overbroadcasting problem with all currently released
> versions of 2.2.x... very nasty, in my experience (saturates the network
> *very* quickly, crashed some switches, etc.).  If you're willing to compile
> a custom kernel, check out the 2.2.13pre1 patch at your favourite
> kernel.org mirror.  It includes a small update to net/ipx/af_ipx.c which
> is intended to correct that problem.

I tried the patch. Unfortunately it seems that it didn't correct the
problem for me. I still have a big collision rate, bringing down my entire
network.

BTW, the 2.2.13pre1 patch is from Alan Cox?  Can I apply this patch using
the patch-kernel script? I put it in the script directory, renamed to
patch-2.2.13 and ran patch-kernel. Is this correct? It seems that it
applied the patch :-|


> 
> When I tried it out, it did indeed correct the problem for me.
> Unfortunately I seem to have stumbled onto another IPX problem, but I
> suspect it to be an unrelated issue.

any success here? maybe the problem remain there :-(

[]s,
Mario O.de Menezes            "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but
    IPEN-CNEN/SP                 is the Lord's purpose that prevails"
http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario                 Prov. 19.21


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