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  2 NET2Debugged 1.24 README
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  5 Major Changes
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  7 o       PLIP driver sort of works
  8 o       UDP and RAW have been partially rewritten for speed
  9 o       Internals heavily cleaned up, and memory monitoring of network
 10         memory is now done. (On shift-scroll-lock)
 11 o       ARP should now not generate garbage
 12 o       Using MSG_PEEK can't cause race conditions and crashes
 13 o       Support for bootp clients.
 14 o       Supports RFC931 TAP authd
 15 o       NFS problems with certain types of network configuration are
 16         fixed.
 17 o       Doesn't forward packets for other subnet (can cause packet storms)
 18 o       TCP won't ack rst frames causing packet storms (especially with
 19         Lan workplace for DOS).
 20 o       Numerous fixes for solidity
 21 o       Verify_area used properly.
 22 o       MSG_PEEK is faster again
 23 o       Minor TCP fixes. Hopefully no more TCP lockups (ha!)
 24 o       Donald's promiscuous mode. Go forth and write protocol analysers...
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 26 NOTE:
 27         Drivers for this stack set must be using alloc_skb() not just
 28 kmalloc. If you get millions of 'non sk_buff...' errors please check the
 29 driver you are using. All Donald's drivers know about this. If you have
 30 a problem driver replace all cases of
 31         
 32         .. =(struct sk_buff *)kmalloc(sizeof(struct sk_buff)+...
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 34 With
 35         ..=alloc_skb(sizeof(struct sk_buff)+...
 36 
 37 And if it uses kfree_s on the packet change that to use kfree_skbmem().
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 40 Bug fixes and improvements for this section of the code should be mailed to
 41 iiitac@pyr.swan.ac.uk.
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 43 
 44 Alan