I have a machine that has two different interfaces (xl for the external and fxp for the LAN). After rebuilding the kernel after 8/9/02, I experienced kernel panic -- but only as as result of passing data through the fxp interface. It stayed stable until I ssh'ed into the router, which caused almost immediate panic. No connections (that were automatically opened by startup scripts) to the outside world via xl caused this problem.
This is consistent with the idea that the fxp driver is borked somehow. The revision date in the CVS tag seems to support this. * $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/fxp/if_fxp.c,v 1.110.2.24 2002/08/09 02:04:20 luigi Exp $ Just my observerations, it may be incorrect. I haven't tested the patch referenced, I'm wary of more downtime. -- Chris Original message from Mike Tancsa: > > Yes, I do not get those reproducible panics either. However, I think this > fxp problem I am seeing now is something different. > > ---Mike > > At 07:36 PM 8/10/2002 -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > >>Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:42:25 -0700 > >>From: cj_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >>Can someone confirm when the -STABLE kernel is usable? I lack a > >>throwaway machine to test this out on. > > > >I was able to get a dead-on reproducible panic, even with sources > >CVSupped as of 0347 hrs. PST (GMT-7) today. After hand-applying the > >patch in > >http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2013026+0+current/cvs-all > >(which refers to PR kern/41492), I no longer get that (or any other, so > >far) panic. > > > >Cheers, > >david (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david) > >-- > >David H. Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To paraphrase David Hilbert, there can be no conflicts between Microsoft > >and the discipline of systems administration, since they have nothing in > >common. > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 > Sentex Communications, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net > Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
