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Date:      Thu, 04 May 2000 08:58:24 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS, rl0 and Alpha 
Message-ID:  <200005040658.IAA28309@peedub.muc.de>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 May 2000 23:00:26 %2B0200." <200005032100.OAA64943@apollo.backplane.com> 

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Matthew Dillon writes:
>:Thanks, but there is code in rl_rxeof() to align to a 32 bit boundary.
>:If that weren't the case than I would expect the Alpha to panic with
>:other IP applications, not just NFS.
>:
>:I don't know, NFS must be doing something weird.
>:
>:---
>:Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de gj@freebsd.org
>
>    NFS will realign the data payload for misaligned packets.
>
>    I agree it sounds like an issue in the NFS code somewhere.  Something
>    that is slipping through unnoticed.  If someone can get a crash dump
>    and do a stack backtrace, or even a simple DDB 'trace', it should be 
>    opssible to track the problem down.

OK, I'll analyze my crash dump and send the reults to -current later
today (Thursday).

---
Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de gj@freebsd.org




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