From: Steve Fraser (syz@sakhalin.ru)
Date: Fri Jan 02 2004 - 02:27:15 EET
Hi All,
> The best long term fix is to upgrade to 2.6.0 (or newer), as the 2.6.x
> kernel has numerous bug fixes. No offense to 9a4gl but as far as I know
> his patch does not fix everything that Ralf and Joeron (sp?) have been
> working on.
>
That's disappointing - my 2.4 system has had a windows-like unreliability
ever since I upgraded from 2.2! I needed some of the advanced routing
features in 2.4, otherwise I would have gone back a long time ago. I'm just
in the middle of applying the 9a4gl patches - I'd hoped it'd fix everything
:-(
BTW the fix to mheardd helped a bit - I'd definitely recommend it. My system
will typically survive for a week now!
> The reason it is flakey under 2.4.x (for some people) is that some
> basic or fundemental assumptions changed between 2.2.x and 2.4.x and
> at the time no one made the necessary changes to AX.25 and the device
> drivers. So some people will be bit by these bugs while others get
> luckily and don't see them (faster, more complex setups, especially
> gateways seem to be affected the most).
>
I certainly qualify for "complex setup/gateway"!
I guess 2.6 is my next step.
Thanks for the "heads up"
Steve
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