Re: More information regarding Etherleak

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer () antioche eu org>]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:24:49AM +0100, Peter Turczak wrote:
> I audited our system running under various operating systems.
> The following OS do _not_ pad the packets with zero but something else, if 
> anybody is interested in the dumps of the frames produced while testing, feel 
> free to contact me.
>
> Machine               OS              Version
>
> IBM iSeries   OS/400  
> IBM RS/6000   AIX             4.3
> Sun E450              Solaris 8
> HP Printers           JetDirect       Various

In the case of the E450, the hardware does the ethernet padding. It does
with values different from 0 (0x55 in the 2 machines I tested, E420 and Ultra5),
but it doesn't come from host memory.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer () antioche eu org>
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