Re: [eepro100] MTU more then 1500
Ben Greear <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel,gmane.linux.drivers.eepro100.devel |
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| Organization | Candela Technologies |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Donald Becker wrote: > On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > >>On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:13:50PM +0100, >> Gerd Aschemann <[email protected]> wrote >> a message of 12 lines which said: >> >> >>>>is there a way to increase MTU to more then 1500? is it a harware or >>>>driver issue? >> >>It is a driver issue. I did not try the following patch but it seems >>simple: >> >>http://www.candelatech.com/~greear/vlan/cisco_howto.html#targ3 > > > That page has evil, evil patches done by people that Did Not Quite > Understand. > > The eepro100 patch just removes the length limit. That opens up huge > holes for buffer overflows, denial of service and crashing the machine. > > Go ahead and apply it to your own machine, but please never distribute > the patches or the resulting drivers. > > [[ Yes, this upsets me: irresponsible patches like these make it into > the kernel all of the time. Especially with 100 people saying "it works > for me". If changing that single bit in the configuration table was a > good idea, don't you think that I would have done it? ]] It upsets me that I hear how evil this patch is over and over, but no one, especially the people that Should Quite Understand, ever offers a better one. > > -- Ben Greear <[email protected]> <Ben_Greear AT excite.com> President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex