misc/116458: Logging problems with syslog and ipfw an 6.2.REL-p5

[Maechler Philippe]

>Number:         116458
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Logging problems with syslog and ipfw an 6.2.REL-p5
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Sep 19 09:10:01 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Maechler Philippe
>Release:        6.2-RELEASE-p5
>Organization:
>Environment:
6.2-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5 #1: Thu May 24 14:18:34 CEST 2007     root at xx.example.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GKC02X-SMP  i386
>Description:
The log-entries in /var/log/messages are totally scrambled and unreadable

there is a statefull IPFW firewall and a caching bind-9.4.1-p1 installed
SMP Kernel wit SCHED_4BSD

ifconfig output:
bge0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
        inet xx.xxx.xxx.xx netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast xx.xxx.xxx.xx
        ether 00:19:bb:25:7b:63
        media: Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex>
        status: active

bge0 is running in promisc mode because of dsc which is running.

sample content of /var/log/messages
Sep 14 12:00:00 ns2 newsyslog[94585]: logfile turned over due to size>100K
Sep 14 12:00:02 ns2 kernel: 5
Sep 14 12:00:05 ns2 kernel: 
Sep 14 12:00:05 ns2 kernel: 7
Sep 14 12:00:08 ns2 kernel: 
Sep 14 12:00:08 ns2 kernel: 9
Sep 14 12:00:11 ns2 kernel: 8
Sep 14 12:00:14 ns2 kernel: 
Sep 14 12:00:14 ns2 kernel: e0
Sep 14 12:00:15 ns2 kernel: a bge0
Sep 14 12:00:15 ns2 kernel: e0
Sep 14 12:00:15 ns2 kernel: <


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