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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 1995 10:11:50 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        captain@pubnix.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, gated-alpha@gated.cornell.edu
Subject:   Gated is crashing my system!
Message-ID:  <9503211511.AA29099@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9503202148.AA26658@rf.dataradio.com>
References:  <9503202148.AA26658@rf.dataradio.com>

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<<On Mon, 20 Mar 1995 16:55:54 EST5EDT, "Andrew Webster" <awebster@dataradio.com> said:

> I'm having some problems with gated R3_5Alpha9 on a FreeBSD 2.0 system.
> The system has 5 dialin lines that either allow shell or slip access.
> After operating correctly for some time (1-2 hours), the system crashes
> after gated tries to remove a route from the kernel when one of the slip
> lines shuts down.  The commands issued to shutdown the slip line are:
>     ifconfig slx down
>     ifconfig slx delete

Try pulling over the -current version of netinet/ip_output.c.  I
recently fixed some potential race conditions involving multicast
options which I think may be the cause of this problem.  (And if this
doesn't fix it, I'd like to know that, too.)

-GAWollman

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