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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:57:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      IAccounts <iaccounts@northnetworks.ca>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml.ventu@flashnet.it>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bpf -> kernel panic
Message-ID:  <20030317125600.G27870-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca>
In-Reply-To: <200303171750.h2HHo6Ku001382@soth.ventu>

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> I have a FreeBSD machine that tended to hang in the recent past. After a few tests I managed to clearly isolate one
> condition that causes this kernel panics.
>
> If I do a "tcpdump -l -i fxp0" I'm sure the machine will lock in less than 3 second.
> The same happens (in a more or less short time) if I run ntop, snort or any other thing that opens a bpf.
> There is a dhcp server running, which is isc version 3.0.1.r11_1 and, on startup, says:
>
> >Listening on BPF/fxp0/00:07:e9:0b:78:d9/192.168.101.0/24
> >Sending on   BPF/fxp0/00:07:e9:0b:78:d9/192.168.101.0/24
>
> So, basically one bpf seems to work. A second one is, however, almost sure death: I didn't have the chance to write
> down the full exact message yet, but basically it's like "page fault while in kernel mode".
>
> uname -a gives:
>
> >FreeBSD xxx 4.7-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p6 #1: Thu Feb 27 1
> >2:40:24 CET 2003     root@xxx:/usr/src/sys/compile/XXX  i386
>
>

As it looks like you have compiled yourself a custom kernel, you didn't
accidently set 'device bpf 1' did you? I think by default in 4.7 it's 4.

Don't know if this will help, but it may be worth a look.

Steve


> Any hint on what I might try to solve this?
> Has anyone had this problem before?
> Any way to better debug this?
>
>  bye & Thanks
>         av.
>
> P.S. In case it matters, the machine has two fxp interfaces.
>
>
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