by Problem #1:
This past Friday I upgraded to Slackware 3.1 and kernel 2.0.21.
I'm now getting a bunch of "bogus packet" messages in syslog.
I read in ./linux/Documentation/networking/Configurable about how
8-bit ethernet cards don't like large windows, so I recompiled
the kernel without that feature and also set the window size on
eth0 to 4096.
Does anyone else have the same problem? Is there a fix for this?
I didn't have this problem with Slackware 2.3 running 1.2.13.
Problem #2:
I'd like to take advantage of IP Aliases but I'm having a
problem with that as well. The primary device eth0 uses IP
129.7.17.1. When I configure the alias device eth0:0 with 44.76.5.110,
the machine begins to broadcast arp "who-has" packets -- big time.
I'm on a non-subnetted Class B so we're talking about ALOT of traffic.
I follow the instructions included with the kernel; I'm not doing
any odd configurations.
Does this problem stem from the fact that eth0:0 is being
configured with a Class A address?
Any help would be appreciated.
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