[mpls-linux-general] RE: [ds_mpls] TCP mpls-sf bug

[Giovanna P. (ERI) <Gio...@er...>]

Thank you,
anyway I think it would already be a good result if the crash were =
avoided, as
it is quite dramatic.

giovanna

-----Original Message-----
From: mistvan [mailto:Ist...@ul...]
Sent: mercoled=EC 25 luglio 2001 12.05
To: Giovanna Piantanida (ERI)
Cc: dsmpls; 'mpl...@li...'
Subject: Re: [ds_mpls] TCP mpls-sf bug


Hi,
as far as I know the bug is more or less present in 0.993 too, but it's
not causing a kernel crash, I've observed that it only jams TCP
connections if there is high traffic on them,
-istvan

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Giovanna Piantanida (ERI) wrote:

> Hi Pim,
>
>  a bug in release 0.990 od mpls-linux was declared from J.Leu (you =
can
> retrieve from the MPLS mailing list on
> Sourceforge the related messages sent on June 19-20-21, 2001) that
> "resulted in TCP traffic causing a kernel
> crash".
> An attempt to sent ftp traffic on LSP established by RSVP-TE showed =
us
> that the bug is still present in your
> 0.990-based patch.
> J.Leu hint for those who planned to send TCP based traffic, was to =
move
> to release 0.993.
>
> regards,
> Giovanna
>