On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, G.B.Naidu wrote:

> I am having problems with DDB while setting breakpoints in the kernel. I
> entered the DDB by giving kernel -d at boot prompt. After that I tried to
> set break point at ip_output() by giving "b ip_output". But it complains
> saying that "sumbol not found". I thought this might be due to stripped

Early setting of breakpoints by name was broken by the switch to elf in
FreeBSD-3.0 (symbols aren't available until the kernel module sysinit runs
much later).  I think it works for aout kernels in 3.x but not in 4.0 or
-current.  Use gdb or set breakpoints early by value in broken versions.

Bruce



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