Hello Eduardo,
I am working on an SPX/SPX-II update I will work on getting your fixes
into my patch.. asap.
Thanks,
Jay
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Eduardo Trapani wrote:
> Oops, I forgot to attach the file. Sorry, there goes the message again
> *with* the patch.
>
> While using SPX as a module running the kernel 2.2.12 I found the
> following problems and I wrote a patch that seems to solve them.
>
> - select() does not work for an SPX socket (waiting to read)
> The patch adds a function spx_datagram_poll() that is basically the same
> function as the one in net/core. spx_datagram_poll() however checks the
> buffers where the SPX implementation really puts the data.
>
> - only three SPX packets can be exchanged between the server (not Linux)
> and a Linux client
> If the server checks the alloc field of the SPX frame it will notice
> that the number stops increasing at three. When this happens the server
> refuses to send packets whose sequence number is greater than three.
>
> - kernel oops if the net number has no route to it
> When trying to connect on a network to which there is no route IPX might
> return a ENETUNREACH error code. The SPX code was not checking this,
> what lead to an error in sock_alloc_send_skb() (the size parameter got
> set to a huge unsigned number) after which the system would freeze.
>
> This is the first time I send a patch. I read all the documents I could
> find on sending patches and I looked at other people's patches but still
> something might be wrong formatted. If that is the case please let me
> know.
>
> Bye, Eduardo.
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