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Date:      Wed, 2 Mar 2011 19:45:40 +0000
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Interface descriptions via pcap broken
Message-ID:  <20110302194540.0000018f@unknown>
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On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:40:57 -0600
Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> wrote:

> BTW, if you give your devices descriptions, libpcap
> starts to behave again; this could be a clue to the source of the bug
> :/

0xa5 is the malloc fill pattern when debugging is enabled, and
having recently reinstalled FreeBSD I forgot to create the malloc.conf
symlink. So something's reading from uninitialized memory.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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