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Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org,
	John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: RELENG_7 crash
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At 11:31 AM 4/21/2009, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>:
>: Note that these changes simply close races around use of ifindex_table,
>: and make no attempt to solve the probem of disappearing ifnets.  Further
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>: refinement of this work, including with respect to ifindex_table
>: resizing, is still required.
>:
>: In a future change, the ifnet lock should be converted from a mutex to an
>: rwlock in order to reduce contention.


Hi,
         Thanks for the info!  In the mean, time, apart from 
disabling snmpwalking, is there anything I can do to mitigate 
triggering this bug ? The box runs ospf/zebra for routing daemons and 
mpd53 for l2tp LNS termination.

         ---Mike