Packet length mismatch 14336,56 on x2100 after patch 118855-19

Question

I'm new to solaris, and I don't currently have a solaris support contract.
After installing solaris 10 6/06 onto my shiny new x2100 (base model) and installing the latest available patches (as of this posting), I started seeing the following message repeated every few seconds in the system log:
ip: [ID 498608 kern.notice] Packet length mismatch: 14336, 56
Backing out 118855-19 causes the message to stop appearing.
Other than this message, I don't believe I have encountered any actual problems (yet).
Any suggestions on whether I should:
- continue to ignore this message;
- back out the patch;
- post this in another forum;
- try to investigate?
Update:
The following messages have also appeared in the system log during shutdown:
ip: [ID 646971 kern.notice] ip_create_dl: hw addr length = 0
ip: [ID 200596 kern.error] bge0: <unknown primitive> failed: DL_UNSUPPORTED
Message was edited by:
Mike_Watters

Answer 1

Hi!
I have this patch installed, but I haven't this problem (I use IPv4).
$ uname -srvmpi
SunOS 5.10 Generic_118855-19 i86pc i386 i86pc
1) Check that all recommended patches was applied.
2) It seems to me, that one of your application uses raw socket interface
(IP_HDRINCL, see /usr/include/netinet/in.h, ip(7p), ip6(7p), icmp6(7p)), and
length field (ip_len, see /usr/include/netinet/ip.h) in raw packet from
application supplied in wrong byte sequence (application was design for big
endian computer).
Usually kernel drops that kind of packets silently. May be new ip driver
(/kernel/drv/ip.conf), which includes in this patch starts to work in verbose
mode...
Try to find this application by stopping applications one by one.