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>hehehe^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>Hey Sean!
>
>Do you actually think that you have total control over your
>BeOS?
>Maybe you should first configure your network settings.
>
>BTW there is a bunch of evil code in the BeOS network stacks:
>----snip----
>
>Problem:
> It is possible to crash the BeOS networking process.
>
>Discussion:
> The BeOS networking stack crashes when certain malformed packets
>are sent to it. This document explains two such packets. The
>first is an IP packet with the protocol field set to TCP. If the
>IP length field is set to be shorter than 40, it will crash the
>networking process on reception. Similarly, an IP packet with
>protocol field set to UDP with an IP length of less than 28 also
>crashes the stack. The lengths 40 and 28 correspond with the
>minimum sizes of the IP and TCP headers, and the IP and UDP headers
>respectively.
>
> Because the networking stack is a seperate process in BeOS, it may
>be easily restarted after it crashes.
>
> A bug report has been filed with Be and assigned the bug number of
>20000405-18674. Be has marked the bug as "Will Not Fix" with the
>comment "The entire networking system will be replaced soon."
>----snip----
>
>har har har...
>Maybe you should use Linux Mandrake!
>
>greetinx,
>Frank
I guess I really offended some mandrake cooker die hards. First off
all Beos is not a server...it's a client. I am set up using WON in my
be box. Mandrake is a great server and thats what its good for. I
have yet to see it crash..... Long live Mandrake&BEOS.....
