kern/85258: changing promisc mode on nic can lead to kernel panic

[Pawel Malachowski]

The following reply was made to PR kern/85258; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pawel Malachowski <pawmal-posting at freebsd.lublin.pl>
To: Pawel Malachowski <pawmal-posting at freebsd.lublin.pl>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/85258: changing promisc mode on nic can lead to kernel panic
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:05:02 +0200

 On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:24:00PM +0200, Pawel Malachowski wrote:
 
 > It also seems that turning polling off at least lowers the risk of panic.
 
 FYI, when polling enable was set to 0, ifconfig promisc and -promisc in loop,
 system was running safely during all night (>18h).
 
 After enabling polling, it crashed within 5 minutes...
 With same backtrace.
 
 
 regards,
 -- 
 Pawe³ Ma³achowski