Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page 2 should be (3) |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | ||
Printed | Page 3 should be (4) |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | ||
Printed | Page 4 should be (5) |
Add (2) to the right of the icon for Router RT1. |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 14 3rd par |
Because of the waste cause by looping ... |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 39 code line above "Cloning and copying buffers" |
skb_shinfo(skb)->dataref++; |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 39 code line above "Cloning and copying buffers" |
skb_shinfo(skb)->dataref++; |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 40 Figure 2-9 |
Interchange sk_shinfo(clone) and sk_shinfo(skb |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 42 Code at bottom of page |
___function_name |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 42 Code at bottom of page |
___function_name |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 47 unsigned char addr_len, line 3 |
Ethernet addresses are 6 octets long. |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 47 unsigned char addr_len, line 3 |
Ethernet addresses are 6 octets long. |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 51 3rd paragraph |
all_multi |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 57 figure 2-11 |
One of the directories, listed in the figure reads "kernal", but that |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 68 Figure 3-3 |
sysctel_jiffies should be sysctl_jiffies |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 69 Figure 3-4 |
SIOC S DEL DLCI should be SIOC DEL DLCI |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 76 Figure 4-2 |
The connection from Network A to Network F is not shown.There is one line missing between Network F |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 93 First call of module_param() |
module_param(multicast_filter_limit, int 0444); |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 97 Figure 5-3. |
request_model should be request_module. |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 98 kmod bullet 1 line 4 |
prorobe.conf should be modprobe.conf. |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 98 kmod bullet 1 line 4 |
prorobe.conf should be modprobe.conf. |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 131 12th line from the bottom |
However, a few architectures discard it a runtime... |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 140 Figure 8-1 (a) |
the second call of alloc_etherdev() should be alloc_netdev() |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 144 Footnote + |
In line 2, "habit" should be "habitat". |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 150 Split Operations: netdev_run_todo last line of first paragraph after head |
reference to Figure 8-4 should be 8-5(a) |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 150 Split Operations: netdev_run_todo last line of first paragraph after head |
reference to Figure 8-4 should be 8-5(a) |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 150 Figure 8-4 |
dev->unit should be dev->uninit |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 160 Figure 8-6 |
The transision |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 164 Figure 8-7 |
kevent_wq |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 167 Figure 8-8 |
The second ocurrence of SIOCGMIIREG should be SIOCSMIIREG |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 168 Last line of first paragraph |
8-9 should be 8-8. |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 168 Last line of first paragraph |
8-9 should be 8-8. |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 178 Line 2 of paragraph 3 |
"the does" should be "does". |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 183 2nd paragraph |
"vortex_interrupt keeps processing incoming frames until the register says..." should |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 192 do_IRQ line 3 |
"transmission" should be "execution" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 194 raise_softirq_irqoff line 1 |
__cpu_raise_softirq should be __raise_softirq_irqoff |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 195 line 30 (including lines of code) |
"(there are no softirqs pending, etc.)" |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 195 line 30 (including lines of code) |
"(there are no softirqs pending, etc.)" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 204 Talklet Processing, line 1 |
"low-latency" should be "low-priority". |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 209 First line of last paragraph. |
softnet_data->blog_dev |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 211 Line 3 of last paragraph. |
open |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 216 Figure 10-1 |
_LINK_STATE_RX_SCHED |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 220 in Figure 10-3 |
NETROLL should be NETPOLL |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 232 First line of last paragraph. |
dev->quota |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 233 Figure 10-6 |
refont |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 237 Line 4 of fourth paragraph from the bottom |
above |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 238 bullet 1 |
L4 |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 240 Figure 11-1 (a) |
(__LINK_STATE_RX_SCHED)) |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 240 Figure 11-1 (b) |
engress |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 244 1st paragraph |
.., output_queue is used by both NAPI and non-NAPI devices, and poll_list is used |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 244 1st paragraph |
.., output_queue is used by both NAPI and non-NAPI devices, and poll_list is used |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 250 2nd bullet in middle of page |
"In this case, the function does not actually fail, but generates a warning with a call to BUG()" |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 250 2nd bullet in middle of page |
"In this case, the function does not actually fail, but generates a warning with a call to BUG()" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 254 Figure 11-4 (b) |
netif_x |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 268 5th(?) paragraph - near middle of the page |
In "...and Ethereal are common users of AF_SOCKET sockets.", AF_SOCKET should be |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 268 5th(?) paragraph - near middle of the page |
In "...and Ethereal are common users of AF_SOCKET sockets.", AF_SOCKET should be |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 273 Figure 13-4 (occurs twice in figure) |
Dst MAC-00:20.... |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 281 Last line of last paragraph |
isdiscussed |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 283 Figure 13-8 (a), Protocol field |
1534 |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 284 last paragraph (above 1st bullet) |
"The two most significant bits of the first byte..." should read "The two least |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 284 last paragraph (above 1st bullet) |
"The two most significant bits of the first byte..." should read "The two least |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 305 3rd paragraph |
In the sentence "...from Bridge 1's perspective, Hosts A, B, C and D are all located |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 305 3rd paragraph |
In the sentence "...from Bridge 1's perspective, Hosts A, B, C and D are all located |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 308 Last paragraph, line 5. |
14-8 |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 324 Figure 15-8(b) caption. |
BPDU |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 347 Ingress BPDUs, paragraph 2, line 2. |
Figure 15-7 |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 351 2nd-to-last bullet, line 2 |
old, disabled |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 361 Paragraph 1, line 3. |
Ethernel |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 371 Figure 16-11 |
ENGRESS |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 377 Figure 16-12 |
E thernet |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 385 br_transmit_config line 2 |
...in Chapter 15." |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 390 NETDEV_UP, line 2. |
br_stp_enabled_port |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 395 Table 17-3, argument for showstp |
BRCTL_SET_BRIDGE_INFO |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 397 CLASS_DEV_ATTR line |
S_IURGO |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 398 BRPORT_ATTR line |
S_IURGO |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 432 Checksums, line 2 |
Some checksums cannot only detect errors... |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 444 third bullet from the top |
(see the section ?Long-Living IP Peer Information? in Chapter 23. |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 451 line 1 and 2 |
'See the section "Local Delivery" in Chapter 20 |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 451 line 1 and 2 |
'See the section "Local Delivery" in Chapter 20 |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 452 Paragraph 2, line 2. |
ip_option |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 471 ip_forward_finish line 5 |
if (unlikely(opt->optlen) { |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 490 Figure 21-7 |
X+S1+S2<+PMTU |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 491 Figure 21-8 |
dala_len |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 493 Further handling of the buffers, paragraph 1, line3 |
sw_write_queue |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 500 Figure 21-11. |
MSG_MOER |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 506 Figure 21-12(b) |
ip_push_peinding_frames caller |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 517 Line 1 of 3rd displayed block of code |
sk2 |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 524 Line4 from the bottom |
Last Recently Used (LRU) |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 531 Last line above Figure 22-2. |
both F3 and F4 (which is completely included). |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 536 Last line of paragraph 2 |
base |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 537 Line 5 of bullet 2. |
the most recently used |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 539 Figure 23-1 |
Delete the "No" above "Is the Create flag set?", and add a "Yes" below. |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 542 Paragraph 2, line 3. |
IPSTATS_MIX_XXX |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 553 Table 23-2 |
ipfrag_high_tresh |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 556 Figure 23-3 |
skhuff.h |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 577 Paragraph 2, line 7. |
The figure also shows that... |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 581 Paragraph 4, line 8. |
traceroute, which needs to plays with... |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 581 Last paragraph, line 1. |
...and the ones used to store... |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 592 Bottom of page |
Add: |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 592 Figure 25-3 |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | ||
Printed | Page 593 ICMP_TIME_EXCEEDED paragraph 2, line 3. |
The intermediate host that drops the packet... |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 610 Paragraph 2, line 1 |
xlim_allow |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 615 Figure 25-13 |
Low Warning Message |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 615 Figure 25-13 |
Delete the "Yes" on the arrow out of [Deliver ICMP to raw IP sockets]. |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 619 ICMP_MIB_INXXX, ICMP_MIB_OUTXXX |
there is one per-ICMP |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 631 Line 3. |
CMSA/CD |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 658 Paragraph 4, line 4. |
"Figure 26-12" should be "Figure 26-13". |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 658 Figure 27-4 |
The arrow pointing from NUD_STALE to NUD_REACHABLE should actually point the other |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 661 Last line. |
the section "Final Common Processing in Chapter 28). |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 662 2nd line |
NEIGH_UPDATE_ISROUTER |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 663 Figure 27-5(a), block b. |
NUD_VALUE |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 681 Figure 27-9, top left |
Form? |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 681 Figure 27-9, lower middle |
proxy_len |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 692 5th paragraph, 1st sentence |
"The input skb buffer, ip_finish_output2, includes the packet data..." should read |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 694 Figure 27-13(a), lower left |
dst->hh (neigh hh init) |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 707 Figure 28-5 (error occurs in three places) |
AROP_ |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 712 First line of last paragraph. |
HostC |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 721 Last line of first displayed source code. |
Delete the final #endif |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 742 Bullet (b), line 1 of paragraph 2 |
A2 |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 742 Bullet (b), line 3 of paragraph 3. |
accordingly to |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 744 ARPD, line 3. |
system performances |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 745 First entry under Kernel Side |
neigh_apps_ns |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 745 Figure 28-22 (error occurs in two places) |
RTN_ |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 747 Figure 28-23 (error occurs in two places) |
RTN_ |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 759 unsigned long confirmed, last line. |
...described in . |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 762 int entry_size, line 2. |
...includes a field whose size depends on the protocol (primary_key), |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 813 Figure 31-5(c) |
In the last line of the ip route add command, 10.0.0.2.1 should be 10.0.2.1 |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 849 Figure 32-6. |
The No branch of "Have all next hops been marked DEAD?" is not labeled. |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 885 First line. |
"is" should be "is not". |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 893 Bullet 2, line 4. |
"any" should be "an". |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 898 Bullet 4, line 1. |
"indegiven" should be "given". |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 934 Figure 35-8(b) caption. |
p_route_output_slow should be ip_route_output_slow. |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 961 Footnote +, line 5. |
"where as" should be "whereas". |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 982 metrics, paragraph 2, line 3. |
"options" should be "option". |
Anonymous | May 01, 2008 |