Re: memory being modified on the freelist

[Brett Lymn <blymn%baesystems.com.au@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 05:22:25PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:36:53PM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote:
> > I am posting this on behalf of someone else, they have a laptop
> > running a recent version of -current.  They use a dialup modem for
> > their internet connection and automatically load some ipf rules when
> > the ppp link comes up.
> 
> Do they run "ipf -y" beforing doing that? "ipf" needs to be told that
> there is a new network interface.
> 

They disabled all their up/down scripts so there was no firewall or
other networking actions done apart from ppp going down/up and the
messages are still being seen.  The types of the objects involved seem
to be network related so it seems to point at the ppp layer - perhaps
data in-flight when the connection dropped?

The person is using a usb modem (fwiw)

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