7.0 issues fixed? upgrade timing?

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:22:10PM -0400, Ben Kaduk wrote:
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > I only just now subscribed, so my apologies if this has been covered
 > and my cursory search missed it.
 > 
 > I am seeing a similar issue to the one described in the email below
 > (pasted from a web listing of this list).
 > 
 > That is, my ssh connection will occasionally be dropped with the
 > message
 >  Disconnecting: Bad packet length 3190815048.
 > (the number is not always the same).
 > 
 > I can reliably reproduce this with `cat < /dev/urandom | od -c`
 > from a FreeBSD-current box (a few weeks old, actually, since
 > the build was broken when I last tried to update) as well
 > as from a mac running OS X 10.4 .
 > 
 > The system that is killing my connections is:
 > FreeBSD periphrasis.mit.edu 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #3: Tue Mar
 > 25 14:53:51 EDT 2008
 > kaduk at periphrasis.mit.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PERIPHRASIS  amd64
 > 
 > 
 > Any thoughts would be appreciated.
 > 

There had been large changes to enhance re(4) stablility and many
users reported positive results. But it still seems to have issues
for certain models. See kern/123202, kern/123563. 
If you encounter issues on latest re(4), please try patch in
kern/123563 and let me know how it goes.

 > -Ben Kaduk
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > ------------------ random message from this thread, for some context
 > -------------
 > 
 >     * From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at xxxxxxxxxxx>
 >     * Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 05:32:07 -0700
 > 
 > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:44:22PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
 > 
 >     On Mon, 12 May 2008 11:37:53 +0200
 >     Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > 
 >         FWIW, I had major troubles with re(4) around 7.0-release, and a while
 >         later (I had to use patches). After upgrading to 7-stable on
 >         2008-04-12, re(4) is working for me without patches.
 > 
 > 
 >     (sigh).. it seems that I spoke to soon. Murphy just showed up. I still
 >     get ssh disconnects (see below) on connections _to_ the machine when
 >     transferring largish amounts of data (like when upgrading a port).
 >     Here is one example (portupgrading the jdk port):
 >     /usr/bin/gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -W -Wall -Wno-unused
 > -Wno-parentheses -pipe -Damd64 -DARCH='"amd64"'
 > -DRELEASE='"1.6.0_03-p4"'
 > -DFULL_VERSION='"1.6.0_03-p4-root_12_may_2008_13_25-b00"'
 > -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_ALLBSD_SOURCE -D_LP64=1
 > -I. -I/usr/ports/java/jdk16/work/control/build/bsd-amd64/tmp/java/java.lang.management/management/CClassHeaders
 > -I../../../src/solaris/javavm/export
 > -I../../../src/share/javavm/export -I../../../src/share/javavm/include
 > -I../../../src/solaris/javavm/include
 > -I../../../src/share/native/sun/management
 > -I../../../src/solaris/hpi/include -I../../../src/share/native/common
 > -I../../../src/solaris/native/common
 > -I../../../src/share/native/java/lang/management
 > -I../../../src/solaris/native/java/lang/management -c -o
 > /usr/ports/java/jdk16/work/control/build/bsd-amd64/tmp/java/java.lang.management/management/obj64/ClassLoadingImpl.o
 > ../../../src/share/native/sun/management/ClassLoadingImpl.c
 >     Disconnecting: Bad packet length 3601161525.
 > 
 >     The machine is running:
 >     tingo at kg-vm$ uname -a
 >     FreeBSD kg-vm.kg4.no 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #10: Sat Apr 12
 >     21:42:55 CEST 2008 root at xxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
 >     amd64
 > 
 >     and has been up for about 14 days:
 >     tingo at kg-vm$ uptime
 >     1:36PM up 14 days, 17:42, 7 users, load averages: 2.15, 1.85, 1.34
 > 
 >     I see that if_re.c for RELENG_7 has been updated on April 22nd, so
 > I'll upgrade the machine to latest -stable and see if that works
 > better.
 > 
 > 
 > Is this machine using pf(4) at all?
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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon