Re: Network stack status & bugs?

[Faidon Liambotis]

Hey Daniel & team,

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 03:34:20AM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:17:06PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:51:29PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> I can confirm that all three of those bugs are still present in current
> tip (2df291226). Happy to help test any patches!

Bumping this wondering if there are any news or plans at this point :) I
watched Michał Żygowski's presentation last week at the GRUB mini-summit
with interest, and noticed your comments there as well -- possibly
referring to some of these bugs above?

Best,
Faidon