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Subject: Re: fxp damages dmesg?
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Sergei Vyshenski wrote:

> dmesg reports usual text only a few seconds after reboot.
> Later it displays a single line with a fragment of ipfw log, e.g.
> 
> 167 213.131.11.152 in via fxp0

This is fairly normal -- the system message buffer contents aren't
static.  On a system with a long uptime, you might see nothing
but arp messages, or core dump messages, etc.

That's why /var/run/dmesg.boot exists.