Re: 2.4.4: Kernel crash, possibly tcp related

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:58:20PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> Andrew Morton writes:
>  > "David S. Miller" wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > I'm having a devil of a time finding the tcpblast sources on the
>  > > net, can you point me to where I can get them?
>  > 
>  > I seem to have a copy. 
>  > 
>  > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/tcpblast-19990504.tar.gz
> 
> Thanks to everyone who pointed me at this and the debian copy :-)
> 
> Anyways, I just tried to reproduce Ralf's problem on two of my
> machines.  One was an SMP sparc64 system, and the other was my
> uniprocessor Athlon.
> 
> What kind of machine are you reproducing this on Ralf?  I'm not

JFYI: I reproduced too on my UP athlon. I run:

	tcpblast -d0 -s 40481 another_host 9000

two times and after the second it locked hard. I didn't had any fork
bomb at the same time but there was an high computing load in the
background.

the nic is:

Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet LANCE] (rev 36)

Andrea