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Date:      Mon, 2 Sep 2002 20:43:19 -0300 (ADT)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Crash with KVM monitoring in place ...
Message-ID:  <20020902203017.H2186-100000@hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <15731.55567.174393.782218@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

>
> Marc G. Fournier writes:
>  > Awhile back, someone posted this to the lists:
>  >
>  > http://www.cs.duke.edu/~anderson/freebsd/netdump/readme.html
>  >
>  > To do dumps to a 'dump server' ... i tried it on a 4.4 kernel, I believe
>  > it was, and altho it looked like it was dumping, I got zero bits on the
>  > remote server, so I'm figuring changes in the kernel itself ...
>  >
>  > Any chance on getting such working (and maybe into) the latest source
>  > trees?  It seems to be it would be most valuable, especially as more and
>
> I had a spare hour this afternoon, and I just got it working again on
> an SMP PIII running a -stable that's only a few weeks old.  I think it
> was failing due to changes in the ip_fw_chk_ptr() interface.  Sorry I
> didn't have time to debug it when you tried it earlier.
>
> I've left a tarball at:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/netdump.tgz
>
> Its still something of a hack -- you must be running an fxp or a de
> interface for it to work.  You also need to have ipfw compiled into
> the kernel... I'm using:
>
> options         IPFIREWALL              #firewall
> options         IPFIREWALL_FORWARD      #enable transparent proxy support
> options         IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT    #allow everything by default
>
> For some reason, automatic sysctl installation no longer works, so if
> you want to disable partial dumps, you'll need to manually do it at
> compile time (or via ddb or gdb).

Okay, do I have to do anything special on the dump_server side of things?
Do you know of any way of inducing a 'panic' on a remote server to test
this with?  Would hate to set it all up and find out it doesn't work :)




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