Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 11/05/2018 11:52, Robert Elz wrote:
>      Date:        Fri, 11 May 2018 09:43:59 +0000
>      From:        "Roy Marples" <roy%netbsd.org@localhost>
>      Message-ID:  <20180511094359.E8785FBEC%cvs.NetBSD.org@localhost>
>
>    | This mitigates recent reports of socket overflow errors
>    | and fixes PR bin/53247.
>
> As I read the PR and what followed, the fix for 53247 was when
> you fixed dhcpcd.
>
> Increasing the receive buffer sizes is probably warranted, but
> fixes nothing - it is trivial to generate enough noise routing
> messages to overflow any size you care to make it.  This is
> not something that can be "fixed".

You, you can artificially generate noise.
However, the normal amount of noise generated in his environment is no 
longer generating any overflow messages so his problem report is indeed 
fixed.

Roy