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Date:      Fri, 7 May 1999 14:10:34 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bridge+dummynet + "sysctl -a" panics in -current
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990507140932.7628Y-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990503130818.7628q-100000@cygnus.rush.net>

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On Mon, 3 May 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> On Mon, 3 May 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> 
> > > a box with de and xl interfaces plus BRIDGE and DUMMYNET compiled in,
> > > doing a "sysctl -a" will panic the box.  (currproc == sysctl)
> > 
> > if you think the panic is bridge-related, can you try manually the
> > net.link.ether.bridge* sysctl -- if they do not fail, then the problem
> > could be with the sysctl to fetch bridging statistics (and if you have
> > a recent system, "netstat -p bdg" should exercise that.
> > 
> 
> ok, egg in my face, that's not it i guess.  What about patching rc.network
> to allow early setup of bridge though?
> 
> I'll try to track this down a bit better...
> 
> I was experianceing it the panic earlier when i had applied matt's NFS patches, however ,my
> other boxes don't panic when i sysctl -a.


just a follow-up, Jordan experianced the same bug and tracked it down,
I think Peter Wemm fixed it.  it was something with isa+sysctl, and not
bridge related, sorry.

-Alfred



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