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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:08:37 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Steve Horan <sjhstable@tracking.amos.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dmesg flakeyness
Message-ID:  <4.2.2.20010220200722.02fb4398@marble.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010221120436.W44375@goldenterrace.com.au>

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At 12:04 PM 2/21/2001 +1100, Steve Horan wrote:

>After booting, dmesg works fine, as normal, but after a while, if I do
>another dmesg, I get only the last entry, and often the first few
>characters are missing.

This is a bug in ipfw.  Have a look at the ongoing thread below


>From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
>Message-Id: <200102200330.f1K3UJC42482@iguana.aciri.org>
>Subject: Re: Solved: Bridging and dummynet seems to destroy dmesg output
>In-Reply-To: <20010220112154.A26373@outblaze.com> from Yusuf Goolamabbas 
>at "Feb 20, 2001 11:21:54 am"
>To: yusufg@outblaze.com (Yusuf Goolamabbas)
>Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 19:30:19 -0800 (PST)
>Cc: jonny@jonny.eng.br, rizzo@aciri.org, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG,
>    freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, dwmalone@FreeBSD.ORG
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> > Luigi, PHK
> >
> > Any resolution on this ?
>
>for sure there is no bug in ip_fw.c -- the change mentioned below just
>happens to change some symptoms but is no fix.
>
>The message buffer is not "busted" as the report says, just has
>some NULs here and there that (probably) dmesg is not handling
>correctly. Poul, do you know more ?
>
>         cheers
>         luigi

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