According to peter jodda:
> The problem is: one client command causes a buffer overrun, which
> leads to a server crash. This problem is generaly fixed with the
> ptf-3 clients, but Linux is a ptf-1.
> The verb, that crashes the server, contains the OS version and
> revision. So a kernel 2.0.34 is OK, while 2.1.131 is one byte to long.
> To solve this problem use a non-hacker linux version, or patch the
> version number, this it is shorter than 7 chars (uname -r).

  Shorter than 8 chars, 7 or less works.
  We've tested this today.

  Heinz

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