[ARGUS] Hurray! FC3/linux-2.6.9 solves BSD argus/Fedora Linux ra compatability

[Peter Van Epp]

	That is good news :-) It points at a Linux kernel bug which is somewhat
of a relief :-)

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada


On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 02:15:56PM -0800, Joe Christy wrote:
> Today I built argus-clients-2.0.6-fixes.1 with Mike Slifcak's patches on 
> two Fedora Core 3 boxen, one running a more-or-less vanilla 2.6.9 kernel 
> and the other running the latest Fedora 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 kernel and then 
> built argus-2.0.6-fixes.1 on an OpenBSD-3.6 box and on a 
> FreeBSD-4.10_STABLE box (which also requires Mike's patches, due to 
> post-bpf packet filtering in the kernel).
> 
> Lo and behold, the interoperability issues between a BSD sensor and a 
> Fedora monitor are no longer present. Hallelujah!
> 
> It appears that RFC3390 is a red herring (though it does make 
> interesting morning reading).
> 
> So, it appears that either linux-2.6.9 or Fedora Core 3 solve the 
> problems Michael Sanderson and I have seen.
> 
> 	Joe