dUNIX OSF305-300277 Illegal length ping ICMP V3.0B ECO Summary
Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1996. All rights reserved.
PRODUCT: Digital UNIX [R]
COMPONENT: ping
SOURCE: Digital Equipment Corporation
ECO INFORMATION:
ECO Kit Name: OSF305-300277
ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit: N/A
ECO Kit Approximate Size: 80 Blocks
40500 Bytes
Kit Applies To: Digital UNIX V3.0B
System/Cluster Reboot Necessary: Yes
ECO KIT SUMMARY:
An ECO kit exists for Digital UNIX V3.0B. This kit addresses the following
problem:
o Corrects a system panic caused by a Windows95 or WindowsNT
system sending an illegal length ping ( ICMP ) packet.
This patch is MANDATORY.
INSTALLATION NOTES:
This patch contains the following inventory:
/usr/sys/BINARY/ip_input.o subset OSFBIN305
CHECKSUM: 60144 37 RCSfile: ip_input.c RCS: 4.4.81.2
The following instructions assume the OSF305-300277.d.tar.Z patch compressed
tar file is in directory /tmp
As superuser, do:
# cd /tmp
# uncompress -d OSF305-300277.d.tar.Z
# tar xpvf OSF305-300277.d.tar
Patch files and cover letter are in subdirectory /tmp/patches/OSF305-300277
Shutdown the system to single-user mode
Preserve the old version(s):
#cd /usr/sys/BINARY
#mv ip_input.o ip_input.o.pre..OSF305-300277
Install the new file(s) and any hard links:
#cd /usr/sys/BINARY
#cp -p /tmp/patches/OSF305-300277/ip_input.o .
Assuming that the name of the system is "MYSYS", build a new kernel:
/usr/sbin/doconfig or
/usr/sbin/doconfig -c MYSYS
Note the locaton of the newly built kernel reported by doconfig.
Verify that there is sufficient disk space, then save existing kernel:
cd /
cp -p vmunix vmunix.pre..OSF305-300277
Copy the new kernel:
cp -p /usr/sys/MYSYS/vmunix /vmunix
To use the new kernel, you must shutdown and reboot the system.
Follow your standard system shutdown and reboot procedures so that your users
and other processes are handled properly.
[R] UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries
licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited.
This patch can be found at any of these sites:
Colorado Site
Georgia Site
European Site
Files on this server are as follows:
osf305-300277_d.README
osf305-300277_d.CHKSUM
osf305-300277_d.CVRLET_TXT
osf305-300277_d.tar_z