Fwd: pf problems

Sergey Lapin slapinid at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 15:16:02 GMT 2005


> > What version of FreeBSD are you running?  Do you have a SMP/PREEMPTION kernel?
> > Does setting debug.mpsafenet=0 in loader.conf change the situation?  Do you
> > have a chance to attach a remote debugger or can you try to break into the
> > debugger from the console?
> Status update:
> It's not SMP/PREEMPTION kernel
> debug.mpsafenet=0 doesn't help
> I couldn't break into debugger - machine is locked and looped somehow.
> It sends that packet in loop even when we stop sending it.
> More than that - the situation doesn't replicate in vmware.
> 
> More on that - when we set everything on VLANs and use only one
> physical interface (fxp),
> about 30 seconds passes before machine dies and if we stop sending
> traffic, it survives.
> Seems like some buffer filling...
> When we use several physical interfaces(fxp, xl0, xl1)  without vlans
> system die immediately.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
Now more on that - We installed 6.0beta2 and this problem is still
here, BUT I could get into debugger. Any ideas how could I localize
this problem?


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