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Date:      Mon, 3 Jul 1995 03:02:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        imb@scgt.oz.au (michael butler)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: spontaneous reboots ?
Message-ID:  <199507031002.DAA18112@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199507030944.TAA12138@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> from "michael butler" at Jul 3, 95 07:44:46 pm

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> 
> Michael Smith writes:
> 
> > > Just like those "fail-safe" circuits, I have a pair of machines which,
> > > when I power up one of them, causes the other, adjacent to it and
> > > running -current, to panic with a "trap 12: page not present" :-(. 
>  
> > At the instant that you power it up, or during the boot process?
> 
> During the boot process shortly after the network card is initialised,
> although I'm not sure precisely when as they share one display.
>  
> > tcpdump on a third system would help if you suspect network interference.
> 
> On a busy ethernet, that's going to be difficult :-(

Not really, have tcpdump filter on the MAC address of the problem machine.


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Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                 Reliable computers for FreeBSD



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