Is rl broken?

John Reynolds~ jreynold at sedona.ch.intel.com
Tue Aug 19 21:16:38 PDT 2003


This thread originally taken from the -stable mailing list, but I'm seeing
weird things in -current now, so I thought I'd ask ....

> I cvsup'd and rebuilt a FreeBSD 4.8 system last Friday after receiving the
> realpath security advisory.  The machine is remote and the NIC uses the rl
> driver.  After booting the machine I had no network connectivity.  The
> person at the remote site says the boot was normal and he could see that the
> NIC was properly configured but he could not ping it and I could not login.
> We booted off kernel.old and everything came up fine.
> 

I have a machine with an Intel nic using the fxp driver that is exhibiting the
same sort of weirdness. I just installed 5.1-RELEASE on it after it was built
and things were rock solid. I got my NIC configured to use DHCP in my LAN here
at home, everything's fine. then I cvsup and buildworld/kernel (the same
kernel config that an *identical* system on my LAN is using) and test out the
new kernel before installkernel and dhclient seems to finish properly and the
interface seems configured correctly with the correct IP. netstat -r shows the
right stuff, but I can't even ping the NIC itself. It says

 sendto: permission denied

when I try to ping the NIC itself and *also* 127.0.0.1. If I revert back to the
5.1-RELEASE kernel with the same hardware and zero config changes, everything
is hunky dory again. Sorry, I'm light on details--I need to do some more
experiments and will cut-n-paste what I see, but I wanted to see if anybody
else is experiencing anything oddball like this.

-Jr

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