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From: Ian Molton <spyro@armlinux.org>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: joe.perches@spirentcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: want opinions on possible glitch in 2.4 network error reporti ng
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 08:35:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020208083529.65befc73.spyro@armlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020207125644.8721A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
In-Reply-To: <9384475DFC05D2118F9C00805F6F263107ECA811@exchange1.netcomsystems.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020207125644.8721A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>

On a sunny Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:08:24 -0500 (EST) Richard B. Johnson gathered
a sheaf of electrons and etched in their motions the following immortal
words:

> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Perches, Joe wrote:
> [SNIPPED..]
> > > That is correct UDP behaviour 
> > 
> > Do you think this is the correct PacketSocket/RAW behaviour?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > How does one guarantee a send/sendto/write?
> > -
> 
> Easy, you use send() or write(). These work on stream protocol TCP/IP

I know its an extreme case, but consider that something goes wrong and the
kernel ends up thinking its buffer is always full / zero lenngth /
something horrible.

I'd personally like it if it warned me it wasnt even trying to send my
packets, rather than just ignoring them completely...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-08  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-07 17:37 want opinions on possible glitch in 2.4 network error reporti ng Perches, Joe
2002-02-07 18:08 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-02-07 18:44   ` Chris Friesen
2002-02-07 19:51     ` Jan Harkes
2002-02-07 20:10       ` Chris Friesen
2002-02-07 20:33     ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-02-07 21:06       ` Chris Friesen
2002-02-07 21:29         ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-02-07 22:29         ` Mark Frazer
2002-02-08  8:35   ` Ian Molton [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-07 20:37 Perches, Joe

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