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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 1995 18:41:15 -0400
From:      Alan Bawden <Alan@Epilogue.Com>
To:        fenner@parc.xerox.com
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   kern/512: writing to bpf(loopback) causes kernel panic 
Message-ID:  <15Jun1995.180039.Alan@Epilogue.Com>
In-Reply-To: Bill Fenner's message of Wed, 14 Jun 1995 18:05:27 PDT <95Jun14.180529pdt.49859@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>

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   Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 18:05:27 PDT
   From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
   Note that the BPF man page says

	...Currently,  only
	writes to Ethernets and SLIP links are supported.

(Ignoring the fact that the bpf man page is missing from freebsd-2.0...)
Yeah I read that -- but if I believed everything the man pages told me I
wouldn't ever get anything done!  Looking at the kernel sources made it
clear that somebody -thought- that writing to the loopback interface was
supposed to work.

   Try these patches.

Next time I'm in a position to re-boot that machine with a new kernel I'll
give it a try.  Thanks for the prompt response!



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