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From: Robin Sommer <robin@icir.org>
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Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org, "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: BPF problems on FreeBSD 7.0
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 14:25 -0700, you wrote:

>> Thanks for the suggestion. Here's the netstat -B output at the time
>> it has stalled (after about 6 hours of working normally):
[...]
> at your rate of receiving packets, it passed that value about
> 2 minutes before this snapshot was taken..

Sorry, I wasn't precise: the process stalled after about 6 hours but
the netstat output is actually from much later (the next day in
fact, because it stalled latet a night) when it was still in that
state.  

Robin

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