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Date:      Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:45:11 +1000 (EST)
From:      Steve Baxter <steve@pipenetworks.com>
To:        <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   unexplained reboot of freebsd, looking for ways to debug
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212190834040.17505-100000@internal.pipenetworks.com>

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Hello,

I have posted this hear as I think I have a networking related freebsd
rebooting issue :)

I am running a couple of FreeBSD boxes both 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD. I am
using to bridge Ethernet over IP using both vtun and netgraph. I am using
the netgraph script in /usr/share/examples/netgraph/ether.bridge to enable
bridging as native bridging in this cut of code did not seem to work.

Anyhow, to cut a long sotry short, both of my bridges were working very
very well, I had tested them up to about 90Mb/sec over a public IP network
and the ethernet cards generally lost frames at arounf 5000 frames/sec
mark (about 1 frame in 8000) before the boxes ran into any issues. In the
last week though I have been doing moderate amounts of load on these bpxes
and they have been rebooting as random intervals - somtimes within
minutes of each other. Before this they were working perfectly for 4
months !

What I am after is a way to turn on some form of debugging in order to
find out what is causing this problem. There are no messages left in any
of the var/log files that are of any help. Is there some form of crash
logging or something I can switch on so when the next time it happens I
can do some sort of analysis on the problem.



PS. I am appreciate I am running RELEASE but it has worked for so long and
if anybody can give me a set of steps to upgrade these boxes to a later
rev that can be performed over an ssh session I would be very grateful :-)



-- 
Stephen Baxter
Director - PIPE Networks
phone : 07 3220 1100/ 0417 818 695
fax   : 07 3220 1800



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