Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:06:22 -0400 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r210561 - projects/sv/sys/net Message-ID: <20100729210622.GA84094@sandvine.com> In-Reply-To: <201007281510.o6SFAV5J052045@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201007281510.o6SFAV5J052045@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:10:31PM +0000, Attilio Rao wrote: > Log: > Initial import of the netdump files. > They still need a lot of polishing and cleanup so they might not be > considered definitive at all. This code is a port to recent FreeBSD of Darrell Anderson's network crashdump support, which was done in the 4.x days. I can't find a current website with the original versions but archive.org has a cache of course: http://web.archive.org/web/20041204223729/http://www.cs.duke.edu/~anderson/freebsd/netdump/ Quoting from the old readme: Netdump provides FreeBSD kernel crash dumping over the network. Netdump is a FreeBSD kernel module client and user-level server. A normal kernel crash writes a raw dump of memory to a dedicated partition (usually the swap partition) using a low-level disk routine, and then copies that raw dump into a file (via savecore) during the following boot process. Netdump replaces the standard dump routine. During a crash, a netdump client broadcasts to locate a netdump server, then sends the dump as UDP/IP packets (with retransmission after loss). The netdump server creates a dump file suitable for gdb. If netdump fails (for example, no netdump server is located), a normal disk dump is performed. There is cleanup work to be done still, but we plan to have this in shape for 9.0. -Ed
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