[ARGUS] FreeBSD 4.7 segfault.

Scott A. McIntyre scott at xs4all.net
Fri Jun 25 12:10:22 EDT 2004



--On Friday, June 25, 2004 10:40 -0400 slif at bellsouth.net wrote:

> I'm running fine with PACKET_LEN=512 on FreeBSD 5 and Linux Fedora FC2.
>
> Carter Bullard wrote:
>
>> Gentle people,
>>   I would crank down the user data capture buffer to < 1020
>> bytes. Run it at 256 and lets see if the problem doesn't go
>> away, and then we'll crank it back up, but the max should be
>> 1020.  The user buffer TLV has an 8-bit length field, and
>> we capture that many ints, so the max will be 1024.  The
>> header is 4 bytes long, so you maybe tickling the edge of
>> the user capture buffer.   I guess I should put in a hard
>> limit on the input to this variable.

Indeed, 1020 broke again, but 768 is functioning fine.   Thanks for the 
pointers!

Scott







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