On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:47:18PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
> 
> Coudl the problem be in the NIC driver not in the alloc_skb?  I have used
> both 2.4.{1,3} for some time and never seen this corruption.  I use ping
> -f with various packet sizes for stress testing my IPSec boxes... these do
> quite a bit of extra skb creation as an IPSec header sometimes does not
> fit in the original skb.  No problems yet.
> 
> My gut tells me to blame the NIC driver of the NIC itself.

The NIC is not directly involved in alloc_skb() (except maybe if it corrupts
internal data structures of the allocator) 

-Andi
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