Subject: Re: FPA hangs macppc solid in 1.5.1
To: Chris Rupnik <chrisr@beosppc.org>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/16/2003 18:44:49
At 05:28 PM 7/26/2001, Chris Rupnik wrote:
>Hi
>  Using the ISO I downloaded this morning, I re-installed the OS completely
>on my mac 9600. And the same thing happens, any access to the FPA hangs.
>Interestingly, a ping or anything will cause a hang of the box, however, its
>seems to be only incoming packets cause this problem,
>
>If I ping a non-existant host (like 192.168.1.33) I get the 'host is down'
>as a response, however, if I ping a real host, the box hangs solid.

I have finally fixed this bug.  I have a DEFPA in my quicksilver G4 and
it now works fine.  I also fixed a tcpdump bug that prevented it from
properly printing out FDDI packets.

Not quite 18 months to fix but close ...  Oh well.


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