if_gif/if_bridge problem

[Andrew Thompson]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:49:49AM +0800, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:49:06AM -0400, Boris Kochergin wrote:
> 
> > Ahoy. I've been using the patch for a while, and, recently, when the 
> > load on the wireless network I needed it for has increased, I've started 
> > getting kernel panics that I think the patch is responsible for. The 
> > panics are usually foreshadowed by messages in the style of "Sep  3 
> > 11:34:14 unique kernel: delayed m_pullup, m->len: 22  off: 38333  p: 97" 
> > in the kernel buffer. I like to think that I've eliminated the 
> > possibility of bad hardware by changing the motherboard, memory, and 
> > Ethernet controllers in the machine, and have tried both Eugene's 
> > original patchset and the one that was committed to 7-STABLE, with the 
> > same ill effects. Any ideas about what might be wrong, or shall I set 
> > about getting a backtrace? Thanks.
> 
> Yes, you should. And I think you no more need my patches after
> Andrew's fixes to gif(4). But if you need my changes to lagg(4),
> you should now use version corrected to apply to recent RELENG_7:
> ftp://www.kuzbass.ru/pub/freebsd/lagg-0.2.tgz
> 
> There were no functional changes, only context changes after Anrew's commit.

Im not too sure about adding media attachments to the bridge. I have
long forgotten the network layout you are trying to achieve, can you
describe it again. It may be better to allow media-less interfaces to be
added to lagg(4).


Andrew