Re: exim and ipoptions

On Wed 5 Feb, 1997, Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
>On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Niels Provos wrote:
>> If you just want to clean the socket options the code in the tcp wrapper
>> would be useable.
>
>Should I make it the default? I'm a bit worried about doing that because
>of comments in the code that say it doesn't work on SunOS 4.x.x. Is that
>the problem you are referring to?

that's correct - unpatched SunOS 4.1.3 systems have a habit of panicing
whilst doing a getsockopt() call. Applying the relevent TCP jumbo
patch fixes that (4.1.3: 100584; 4.1.3_U1: 102010). 4.1.4 is ok with it.

James.