Bug 346421 – kernel increasing the snmp counter error.

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Bug 346421 - kernel increasing the snmp counter error.

Summary:	kernel increasing the snmp counter error.

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3.9
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Kernel Manager
QA Contact:	Martin Jenner
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Reported:	2007-10-23 04:09 EDT by Gui Jianfeng
Modified:	2008-05-01 18:39 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2008-05-01 18:39:34 EDT
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A patch to fix this problem (1.51 KB, patch) 2007-10-23 04:09 EDT, Gui Jianfeng	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description Gui Jianfeng 2007-10-23 04:09:14 EDT

Description of problem:
When kernel receives a package with wrong destination ipv4 address,
the "InAddrErrors" counter located in /proc/net/snmp doesn't increase correctly.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.4.21-50.EL

How reproducible:
send ipv4 packages with wrong destination address(for instance 0.0.0.0)
check the "InAddrErrors" increasing correctly

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Actual results:
InAddrErrors is always 0

Expected results:
InAddrErrors increase correctly

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Comment 1 Gui Jianfeng 2007-10-23 04:09:14 EDT

Created attachment 234851 [details]
A patch to fix this problem

Comment 2 Don Howard 2008-05-01 18:39:34 EDT

Thank you for the patch proposal.

RHEL3 is no longer in active developement.  Only critical security and bug fixes
will be considered for inclusion.

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