Possible DoS in mpd 5.6 pppoe server

[Eugene Grosbein]

On 05.05.2013 07:51, Marcelo Gondim wrote:

> I changed hardware for motherboard Supermicro X9SCM-F and Xeon processor 
> 3.2Ghz E31230 with 8Gb ram ECC. The problem stopped and the server was 
> very stable.
> The problem could be with the Intel motherboard S5500BC? Because this 
> was installed with 2 Xeon processors and two memory banks 4Gb.
> Could be FreeBSD incompatibility with the hardware or faulty hardware?
> 
> Thanks and best regards,

I don't think so. The race problem is known. It has software nature
and crash probability depends of many reasons. The change of hardware
changes some of aspects, indeed :-) In your case it somehow
made the server more stable but that's not any kind of hardware incompatibility.