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Date:      Tue, 14 Nov 2000 07:49:05 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Rich Wales <richw@webcom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bridging code in 4.2RC1 still not fixed
Message-ID:  <20001114074905.B333@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20001114002123.64508.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu>; from richw@webcom.com on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 04:34:03PM -0800
References:  <20001114002123.64508.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu>

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On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 04:34:03PM -0800, Rich Wales wrote:
> Marko Cuk wrote:
> 
>     > I installed 4.2RC1 from ISO and the bridging code in
>     > conjuction with ipfw is still bad and it still crashes
>     > machine after a few seconds of work.
> 
> In case it will help any, I tried configuring a 3.4-RELEASE system
> as a bridge a few weeks ago, but it suffered random crashes too.
> 
> The crashes were "fatal trap 12" (page fault while in kernel mode),
> in the routine in_cksum(), called from udp_input().
> 
> When I reconfigure the system to work as a conventional (non-bridge)
> IP router, it's solid as a rock.  Again, I'm using 3.4-RELEASE; I do
> plan to upgrade to 4.something eventually, but not just yet.
> 
> I posted this to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc on October 14.  I asked
> if anyone knew if the problem was fixed in the 4.* versions, but no
> one ever replied.  I didn't submit a PR because the problem was with
> 3.4-RELEASE and I assumed no one would be interested in pursuing it.

That is not a really valid assumption. But I agree that the focus is on 4.x
and -current. Bugs reported on 3.x are crosschecked (by most committers) to
the 4.x codestream.

I strongly suggest to sendpr the problem against 4.2-beta!

-- 
Wilko Bulte  	 					Arnhem, the Netherlands
wilko@freebsd.org  	http://www.freebsd.org 		http://www.nlfug.nl



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