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From: ghb@elrond.la.locus.com (George Bray)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: 4.2BSD and Route Record
Summary: Does 4.2 panic on an IP Route Record packet?
Message-ID: <97@elrond.la.locus.com>
Date: 11 Nov 89 02:41:40 GMT
Reply-To: ghb@elrond.la.locus.com (George Bray)
Organization: Locus Computing Corp., Los Angeles
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I have heard rumors that sending IP packets with the Route Record
option enabled causes machines based on the 4.2BSD TCP/IP code to
dereference a null pointer.  This is rumored to cause some machines to
panic.

Does anyone know if this is true?  If I were developing a product and
planning to use Route Record, would I need to be able to disable this
feature to avoid problems with 4.2BSD-based hosts?

George Bray
Locus Computing Corporation, 9800 La Cienega Blvd, Inglewood, CA  90301-4440

213-337-5171
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