rl(4) is not ready for mpsafenet net enough? (silent reboots)
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 22 00:40:37 GMT 2005
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:20:46AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
>> FYI, most locking bugs in network interfaces that I've seen don't result
>> in a spontaneous reboot, and that's a somewhat worrying symptom. Is this
>> something you can easily reproduce in a short period of time, or in
>> particular, using a particular program or system call? Is there any
>> chance your box has firewire and you can use a firewire debugger to
>> inspect memory?
>
> I can't reproduce it, it happens after few hours running. Perhaps the
> problem is not in rl(4) and making it GIANT only mask the problem. I
> have spare hardware to swith to and experiment and I'll see what
> happens.
If the same problem occurs using a different adapter but identical
software configuration otherwise, that would be very helpful to know.
Robert N M Watson
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