Re: Network stack status & bugs?

[Daniel Kiper]

Hi Faidon,

First of all, sorry for late reply...

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:51:29PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Around a year ago, in my attempts to use GRUB for PXE, I ran into quite
> a few bugs with GRUB's TCP, DNS and HTTP stack that prevented me from
> using GRUB for that purpose.
>
> I tried my best to troubleshoot them and provide ways to reproduce them.
> I posted my findings in Savannah:
>   - https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56391 TCP FSM bug(s)
>   - https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56390 Non-dual-stack aware DNS
>   - https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49531 HTTP Connection: close
>
> I haven't seen any activity in these for over a year, but that does not
> seem to be unusual for bugs reported to Savannah in general(?).
>
> However, from what I can tell, this mailing list seems to be getting a
> lot of activity and lots of progress being made (including recent e.g.
> the recent UEFI IPv6 improvements, yay!). So, I'm giving this a go
> instead in the hopes to surface those to the attention of more
> knowledgeable folks :)

May I ask you to retest the latest upstream version from git master? I think
we should fix at least some of theses issues for upcoming 2.06 release.

Daniel