Re: rl(4) is not ready for mpsafenet net enough? (silent reboots)

From: Andrey Chernov <ache_at_FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 04:36:57 +0400
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:20:46AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> FYI, most locking bugs in network interfaces that I've seen don't result 
> in a spontaneous reboot, and that's a somewhat worrying symptom.  Is this 
> something you can easily reproduce in a short period of time, or in 
> particular, using a particular program or system call?  Is there any 
> chance your box has firewire and you can use a firewire debugger to 
> inspect memory?

I can't reproduce it, it happens after few hours running. Perhaps the 
problem is not in rl(4) and making it GIANT only mask the problem. I have 
spare hardware to swith to and experiment and I'll see what happens.

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