linux-kernel - Re: QUESTION: Why might Linux suddenly stop replying to pings for no apparent reason?

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:03:36 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Terry Phelps <tgphelps50@...il.com>
Cc:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Why might Linux suddenly stop replying to pings for
 no apparent reason?

On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 11:42 -0400, Terry Phelps wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:06 AM, richard -rw- weinberger
> <richard.weinberger@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Terry Phelps <tgphelps50@...il.com> wrote:
> >> I have this strange recurring problem with SEVERAL machines, all
> >> running the Oracle "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel", which is based on
> >> the 3.0.16 kernel.
> >
> > Ask Oracle.
> 
> Is there some way to "ask Oracle", in which my question will get to
> someone who can possibly help me? I've tried contacting "Oracle Linux
> support". They're hopeless. I've posted my question to Oracle forums,
> and even general Linux forums, but all I get is boilerplate networking
> advice (check ifconfig, check your routes, check your switches, check
> autonegotiation, etc.) that doesn't address the specific symptoms I'm
> seeing.
> 
> If I should be posting my question to somewhere other than the
> linux-kernel mailing list, please advise me where that might be. It
> sure looks like something in the kernel isn't working properly
> somewhere.

Before saying that, can you try a pristine linux kernel ?

For example linux-3.4.5, or even better the git tree, so that
it will be easier to add knobs and patches.

Obviously we dont know what Oracle added to their kernels, and
dont want to know.



--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/