On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello!
>
> > + if ((new_mtu < 28) || (new_mtu > 65536))
>
> Hey, stop! mtu on loopback may be arbitrarily large.
> You will break the only chance to check IPv6 jumbo frames by this patch.
Sorry bout that, just change that line to:
+ if (new_mtu < 28)
The check above must be there otherwise it is easy to break your machine. I
know that you have to be root to do this, but it is still feels sloppy to me to
not check inputs whenever possible, even if it is the superuser :)
you can download the modified patch
from http://www.cs.curtin.edu.au/~kuiperba/loopbackpatch
Good Luck
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