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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:26:00 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Krzysztof Kowalik <kkowalik@uci.agh.edu.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fxp(4) and lockups on RELENG_6_x
Message-ID:  <20070110072600.GA32505@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070107155229.GA4749@uci.agh.edu.pl>
References:  <20070107155229.GA4749@uci.agh.edu.pl>

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On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 04:52:29PM +0100, Krzysztof Kowalik wrote:
> Hello.
>=20
> We are running an (IRC) server that under high-rate traffic (ie. DDoS
> attack) stops to respond to the network. The network remains locked up
> even after the original attack stops. However running tcpdump (which
> switches the interface into promisc mode) unlocks networking and things
> work again.
>=20
> At the moment, we are running 6.2-RC1 cvsupped at Dec 10, with if_fxp.c
> from Nov 11 (previously, we had 6.1 for a while, having the same issues)
>=20
> if_fxp.c,v 1.240.2.10.2.1 2006/11/20 16:21:12
>=20
> The same machine used to run FreeBSD 4.11 without any problems.
>=20
> Any help/pointers/suggestions would be appreciated.

You'll probably need to set up DDB and run the usual tracing commands
(see the developers handbook) to obtain further debugging information
to proceed here.

Kris

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