Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:18:06 +0200 From: "Vlad GALU" <dudu@dudu.ro> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bge0: discard frame w/o packet header Message-ID: <ad79ad6b0702151318j14d9e7e2pab7513670e1500b0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b1fa29170702151258k2dfde6d0j3fa447f5d07098d9@mail.gmail.com> References: <XFMail.20070215123542.jdp@polstra.com> <b1fa29170702151258k2dfde6d0j3fa447f5d07098d9@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2/15/07, Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The "discard frame w/o packet header" message comes from ether_input() > > if it gets an mbuf that doesn't have the M_PKTHDR flag set. That > > can't happen unless something is very wrong with the system. I'd like > > to make it a panic. At least then the machine would reboot instead of > > just becoming unreachable. Any objections? > > Please don't make it the default. Odds are ifconfig down, ifconfig up > would fix it for those of us with console access. Either way it sounds > like someone has discovered a DOS in bge. It's present in at least sk(4) as well. I saw it recently. > -Kip > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- If it's there, and you can see it, it's real. If it's not there, and you can see it, it's virtual. If it's there, and you can't see it, it's transparent. If it's not there, and you can't see it, you erased it.
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