Armen Babikyan wrote:
> I posted this message a few weeks ago, and didn't get any response. Maybe
> it hit the wrong audience :)
> anyone have any ideas why it happens?
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 
> I have been using IPNAT here at my house for awhile now and I love it. I
> have two computers on the network, a q700/NetBSD box (runs ipnat) and a
> powermac 6205 (running macos).
> 
> yesterday, i added 3 more computers to the LAN, a q840av/macos, a
> IIvx/macos and a IIcx/macos. After these computers were configured for
> using the internet through the netbsd box, and tcp connections were opened
> from all of them to computer outside the lan, with no significant
> bandwidth, the netbsd system froze - ethernet, the ui (X), everything.
> Eventually, i got around the annoying crashing by opening tcp connections
> to the netbsd router, and opening connections out from there.

[snip]

> I'd like to know why this happened. does anyone have any thoughts?
> I don't have a stack trace, but if necessary, i will reproduce the
> situation and send it to anyone who could make use of it.

It might be nice to see one.  That way, at least someone will know where
to start :-)  Otherwise, it's kinda hard to figure out where the hangup is
happening....

BTW, assuming I didn't snip it, what version of NetBSD are you using?

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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