Panic in ipfw
Ian FREISLICH
ianf at clue.co.za
Tue Jul 3 13:07:10 UTC 2007
"Andrey V. Elsukov" wrote:
> Hi, Ian.
>
> > I got this panic yesterday on a fairly busy firewall. I have some
> > private patches to ip_fw2.c and to the em driver (see the earlier
> > "em0 hijacking traffic to port 623" thread). I don't think this
> > panic is a result of those changes.
>
> > It occurred round about the time an address was added to an interface.
>
> I have a patch that can help you (i guess..).
> Can you test this patch?
>
> http://butcher.heavennet.ru/patches/kernel/inaddr_locking/
Thanks. Wow, that looks like it touches a lot more than just ipfw.
It took about 1.5 years of production at 2.3 billion backets a day
to trigger this condition twice. It's going to be difficult to
tell if this patch fixes the problem.
Ian
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