Looking for FreeBSD kernel debugging help

Richard Sharpe rsharpe at richardsharpe.com
Wed Jun 11 08:55:38 PDT 2003


On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Nat Lanza wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 06:22, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Someone should port the network debugging from Darwin using
> > the tiny IP stack from NetBSD.
> 
> Well, there's this:
> 
> http://ipgdb.sourceforge.net/
> 
> > IPGDB is a collection of extensions to GDB and FreeBSD-4.3
> > to allow two-machine kernel debugging over UDP. It behaves
> > much like two-machine kernel debugging over serial ports. 
> > 
> > These extensions can easily be applied to other releases of
> > FreeBSD. With a little bit of modification, these extension
> > can be applied to other BSD variants.
> 
> It hasn't been updated in a while, but it's definitely a start. It works
> pretty well for 4.3, and I know it's been updated to work with 4.6
> (though possibly not in the sourceforge distribution).

I think that Groggy was working on this a while back.

Regards
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