From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 22 14:49:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 627F3106566B for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:49:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 180D48FC16 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:49:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P9Ivi-0005At-2m for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:49:14 +0200 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:49:14 +0200 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:49:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:49:06 +0200 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <201010221416.o9MEGSa0094817@lava.sentex.ca> <201010221425.o9MEPcWC094867@lava.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20101018 Thunderbird/3.0.8 In-Reply-To: <201010221425.o9MEPcWC094867@lava.sentex.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Subject: Re: repeating crashes with 8.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:49:15 -0000 On 10/22/10 16:25, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 10:18 AM 10/22/2010, Randy Bush wrote: >> > Do you know how this panic is triggered ? Are you able to >> > create it on demand ? >> >> no i do not. bring server up and it'll happen in half an hour. >> >> and the server was happy for two months. so i am thinking hardware. > > Perhaps. The reason I ask is that I had a box go down last night with > the same set of errors. The box has a number of ipv6 routes, but its > next hop was down and the problems started soon after. So I wonder if it > has something to do with that. Do you have ipv6 on this box and are all > the next hop addresses correct / reachable ? > > Oct 22 02:06:02 i4 kernel: em1: discard frame w/o packet header > Oct 22 02:06:10 i4 kernel: em2: discard frame w/o packet header > Oct 22 02:06:21 i4 kernel: em1: discard frame w/o packet header FWIW I had a series of crashes with those characteristics which I suspected were IPv6 or 6to4-related on 8.0-RELEASE and 8-STABLE which eventually made me give up on IPv6 - it was crashing too often (couple of times a week). I have at least a couple of threads on this on freebsd-net@ (without resolution).