Re: Better sheep patch


Subject: Re: Better sheep patch
From: Geoff Ghose (geoff@focus.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu)
Date: Wed May 10 2000 - 13:49:52 MDT


Charles McLachlan wrote:

> For those of you who still care, I've tried making my sheep net patch a bit more
> cunning.
>
> It will now dynamically set its filter to the source address of the last
> outgoing IP packet. It starts off accepting everything, then, when it works out
> what IP address it's going to use, the filter comes into effect and pulls down
> the shutters.
>
> You'll need to use this patch on a fresh sheep.c, not one with my previous
> patch applied
>

WOW. This completely eliminated by Can't allocate messages. I tried some pretty heavy network
activity (including Helios LanTest) and there haven't been any problems. Previously, I
couldn't run ten minutes without a lock-up due to Can't allocate data packet errors.

mol is finally usable for me - THANK YOU!




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