>> One more thing....
>>
>> The machine I am running this on is an AGP G4 PMac with a Sonnet 1 Ghz
>> CPU upgrade in it.  It is quite possible that the race condition I
>> saw in the panic is triggered only on fast CPUs.
>
>I'd guess that you have a custom kernel because it's compiled with DIAGNOSTIC. Did you enable awacs?
>
>Is the ppp running off of a motherboard serial such as a Gport or Stealth port, or some other way?
>
>John

My kernel is the stock kernel.  I did the upgrade with sysinst, and used
what came out in /netbsd.   One of the goals of my upgrade was
to get out of the business of having to build my own kernels.  I have yet to
build a 2.1 kernel.

The panic showed up on the console as a:

	panic at blah blah....
	db>

after which I could not enter anything on the keyboard (stock Apple kbd was
plugged in already.  I didn't try to hot-plug it)

ppp is running on two ports of an 8-port Cyclades pci card.  The panic
happened while one of the dial-in ports was active.  A user was
logged in at the time, though I have no way of knowing what he was
doing.  It was almost an hour between the crash and I got home and
"pushed the button".

-dgl-