On Aug 6,  1:41pm, cshapiro@sparky.ic.sunysb.edu (Carl S Shapiro) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: elink3 and ssto weirdness

| > There was a bug in libc where 127.1 was not being parsed, thus
| > the loopback interface did not get set-up. This causes the above problem.
| 
| So, rebuilding libc and making a new boot disk should solve the problem?

It should. Or fixing /etc/hosts to read 127.0.0.1 instead of 127.1

| > This is a very elusive bug that we've seen on the 3com cards related
| > to the MGET macros. Try using the non macro versions.
| 
| It seems *all* of the 3Com cards I have encountered, *always* cause NetBSD
| to panic when booting off of the ssto disk.  Also, pardon my ignorance, but
| how do I avoid this MGET macro?

Hmm, an interesting thing to try then. I've been trying to cause the panic
for a long time. 

s/MGET/m_get/g
s/MFREE/m_free/g
s/MCLGET/m_clget/g
s/MGETHDR/m_gethdr/g

etc.

in dev/ic/elink3.c...

christos