repeating crashes with 8.1
Joel Jaeggli
joelja at bogus.com
Fri Oct 22 20:27:37 UTC 2010
Ok I'll try testing that on some box I can reach with both hands.
fyi nagasaki is:
[root at nagasaki ~]# uname -a
FreeBSD nagasaki.bogus.com 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #13:
Sun May 30 22:19:23 UTC 2010
root at nagasaki.bogus.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
[root at nagasaki ~]#
On 10/22/10 1:17 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>>>>>> Do you know how this panic is triggered ? Are you able to
>>>>>> create it on demand ?
>>>>>
>>>>> no i do not. bring server up and it'll happen in half an hour.
>>>>> and the server was happy for two months. so i am thinking hardware.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps. The reason I ask is that I had a box go down last night with
>>>> the same set of errors. The box has a number of ipv6 routes, but its
>>>> next hop was down and the problems started soon after. So I wonder if
>>>> it has something to do with that. Do you have ipv6 on this box and
>>>> are all the next hop addresses correct / reachable ?
>>>>
>>>> Oct 22 02:06:02 i4 kernel: em1: discard frame w/o packet header
>>>> Oct 22 02:06:10 i4 kernel: em2: discard frame w/o packet header
>>>> Oct 22 02:06:21 i4 kernel: em1: discard frame w/o packet header
>>>
>>> it was co-incident with a border router being taken down for new router
>>> install. that router was the v6 exit the servers was using. i have now
>>> pointed default6 to a different exit. the server seems happy.
>>
>>
>> Are you servers still up ? I guess the question now is how to
>> trigger this problem on demand. Perhaps lots of inbound ipv6 traffic
>> with a bad next hop out ? How recent are you sources ? The kernel
>> said Oct 21st. Were the sources from then too ?
>
> yes, kernel and world from 21 oct
>
> chris had an idea on retrigger, install a static for a small dest that
> points to a hole. send a packet to the small dest.
>
> randy
>
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