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From: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
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Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: BUG: ip_output.c FreeBSD 4.11
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On 12/13/05, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:37:31PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> > Mihail Balikov wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > In FreeBSD 4.x in ip_output.c in part for ipfw local forwarding there=
's typo
> > > that will cause kernel panic:
> >
> > If you haven't already, this should be filed as a problem report.
>
> I don't know that there's a lot of point since 4.11 is in "legacy"
> mode and few developers still use it.

The humorous thing is that althought I'm sure its true "few developers"
still use it,  in places where it has actual commercial use, they are still
using 4.x in large numbers.

So bottom line... there is value in bugs being noted and filed :)

Jack