ECO kit KERNEL-UPDATE-080_A055

KERNEL-UPDATE-080_A055 - ECO kit Rev 8.0 for MultiNet 5.5A 27-Feb-2019

    Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Process Software, LLC
 
    This kit updates MultiNet V5.5 Rev A with a new version of MULTINET.EXE
    or MULTINET_KERNEL.EXE for MultiNet V5.5 for OpenVMS.

    The ranking for this ECO is 3. (Corrects a specific problem.)
    The overall ranking for it is 1. (KERNEL-UPDATE-060_A055)

    Included in this kit are fixes for the following :

    - Correct an error in calculating the size of TCP packets that could lead
      to packets larger than the destination can accept in certain cases.
      (ECO Rank 3 KERNEL-UPDATE-080_A055)

    - Correct the interpretation of KEEPINVTL and KEEPINIT when coming from an
      application.  The code was assuming that they were in half seconds, but
      the documentation says that they are expressed in seconds.
      (ECO Rank 3 KERNEL-UPDATE-070_A055)

    - Correct a problem that can cause a crash when manipulating interface
      filters.  (ECO Rank 1 KERNEL-UPDATE-060_A055)

    - Correct a problem with retransmits that are done as a full sized packet
      followed by a short packet. (ECO Rank 3 KERNEL-UPDATE-050_A055)

    - Correct a problem with writes to the BG device when the socket buffer
      becomes full. (ECO Rank 2 KERNEL-UPDATE-041_A055)

    - On ia64 systems let the VMS driver decide if the packet is less than the
      minimum size and should be padded. The adjustment that was being made in
      MultiNet was causing problems on some configurations.
      (ECO Rank 3 KERNEL-UPDATE-040_A055)

    - Do not allow the TCP maximum segment size to be set to less than the
      minumum path mtu size as it can cause a crash.
      (ECO Rank 2 KERNEL-UPDATE-030_A055)

    - Correct a length calculation problem with TCP packets that can cause too
      large packets to be sent, which are then not received or ignored by the
      destination. (ECO Rank 3 KERNEL-UPDATE-02_a055)

    - Correct a potential memory corruption that can result in a crash. Add
      code to the routine that frees the socket data structure to clear the
      pointer from the device UCB to the socket data structure.
      (ECO Rank 1 KERNEL-UPDATE-010_A055)

    You must reboot after installing this ECO kit for the changes to
    take effect.