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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD TCP/IP Networking BUG
Date: 24 Mar 94 22:58:55 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <2mt0i7$7ph@sundog.tiac.net> timj@tiac.net (Tim Jackson) writes:
>Hi,
> I think I have found a bug that has been in the NetBSD-current
>TCP protocol engine. Try the following :
>1. telnet into a NetBSD-current machine {My configuration is below}
>2. Execute the following script.
># while [ true ]
>> do
>> cat /etc/termcap {or any text file}
^^^^^^^^^^^^ /usr/share/misc/termcap ?
>> done
>You will notice that the output will stop after a short while and will
>not continue.
Just how long is this supposed to take? I just tried it a few minutes
ago and it's still going.
>I have tried this on three types of i386 boxes.
>1. 486/66 DX2 32MB memory NE2000 (real)
>2. 386/33 8MB memory NE2000 (real)
>3. 486/33 8MB memory NE2000 (real)
Common factor: they all have NE2000's. I have never experienced
anything of this sort with Western Digital ethernet cards. I suspect
your NE2000 driver.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
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