Subject: System lockup at "ifconfig vlanX destroy"?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Lars-Johan Liman <liman@autonomica.se>
List: current-users
Date: 06/04/2004 11:04:54
Hi!

I'm playing with vlans a bit, but a few times I've run into a very
nasty situation where the entire OS totally freezes (as in "reset
button is your friend" :-P) when I tell it

  ifconfig vlanX destroy

where "X" is the number of the vlan interface I happen to be fiddling
with. The parenting physical I/F is an fxp0, if that matters ...

Unfortunately I cannot predictably repeat it. It happens now and then,
but often enough to be a real pain in the sit-upon.

This is on 1.6ZK from late february, but I seem to remember having
seen it on 1.6ZC too, sime time ago.

(I periodically have to fiddle with this in conjunction with courses
that I teach with rather large intervals.)

Has anyone else seen this? Bug or feature? Cure or work-around? Fixed
in later code?

				Cheers,
				  /Liman
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