Subject: Re: something strange with mbuf length...
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/22/2006 08:13:07
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:13:19 +0100, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net> wrote:
>
>> "Konstantin KABASSANOV" <Konstantin.Kabassanov@lip6.fr> writes:
>>
>>> I do use ipfilter.
>> Since you and Steve both use ipfilter, can this be the problem ?
>>
> That's very high on my list of suspects. I've had the crash when using
> two different interfaces, ath0 and ppp0. The ppp0 instance doesn't
> support v6; in fact, when I fire up ntpd after starting that link, I get
>
> bind() fd 12, family 24, port 123, addr fe80::211:25ff:fe43:e8a4, in6_is_addr_multicast=0 flags=0 fails: Can't assign requested address
>
> My filter rules are very simple, too; no NAT, no proxies, just blocking a few ports.
>
> --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
My lockups are unrelated. I'm using neither ath0, ppp0 or any packet
filter. Rate of occurance is several time per day.
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John R. Shannon, CISSP
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