Subject: Re: NetBSD Security Advisory 2007-004: Insufficient length
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Johan A.van Zanten <johan@giantfoo.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/29/2007 23:55:15
Johan A. van Zanten <johan@giantfoo.org> wrote:
>
> Just FYI, in case it saves someone some time, i think the hme driver (at
> least for Sbus) requires the ISO option in the kernel. When i booted from
> an "ISO-less" MP kernel on my SPARC 5/170, the hme interface didn't seem
> to pass packets (ICMP or NFS).
Gah! No, that's incorrect. ISO isn't required by hme at all -- i was
working with the wrong copy of the kernel config, and it had a commented
"nsphy*" line which caused the problem with the hme interface.
-johan