On Thursday 04 November 2004 04:11, foo AT porto.bmb.uga DOT edu wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:48:23AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>> foo AT porto.bmb.uga DOT edu wrote:
>> >On further inspection, it's a kernel problem - bad UDP checksums.
>> >
>> >I'll go bug them now. :)
>>
>> To avoid falling in the same trap, what kernel version was that?
>
>2.6.9.  I have a dozen other machines running 2.6.9 without this
>problem, though.  I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like having
>CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP disabled causes the bug (disabling it was an
> accident on my part, I don't know why you'd want it off).
>
>-ryan

Check the lkml archive, ISTR there was a discussion centered on this a 
while back.  I've not encountered this problem myself, currently 
running 2.6.10-rc1-bk13, yesterdays snapshot.  With that option 
turned on.

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