From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 27 4: 4:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.az.home.com (ha1.rdc1.az.home.com [24.1.240.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42CA14E7B for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 04:04:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from btalbot@ucsd.edu) Received: from ragtop ([24.0.46.246]) by mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990927102830.TUGF27904.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@ragtop>; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 03:28:30 -0700 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990927032147.00a3d680@mail.elcjn1.sdca.home.com> X-Sender: btalbot@ekimaphost (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 03:28:29 -0700 To: Andy Farkas , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Bryan Talbot Subject: Re: nmap V. 2.3BETA5 causes panic In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:43 AM 9/27/99 , Andy Farkas wrote: >The system will panic with an 'out of mbufs' message when I run the above >nmap command ("ping scan" a class B subnet - my internal IP network). I'm no expert but this basic question has been asked many times on this list recently. It seems to be a known problem that FreeBSD currently panics if it runs out of mbufs. We all wish this wasn't so and maybe someday it won't be. Check out these messages for more info: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/search.cgi?words=mbuf+panic&max=25&sort=score&sou rce=freebsd-stable -Bryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message