Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:20:10 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" <almarrie@gmail.com> To: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@incunabulum.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Rudy Rucker <crapsh@monkeybrains.net> Subject: Re: ifconfig carp0 destroy = kernel panic Message-ID: <499c70c0705290320x33e59ecbx6b39125e6c4bd619@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <465BFC6E.3070506@incunabulum.net> References: <465BE214.8040502@monkeybrains.net> <465BFC6E.3070506@incunabulum.net>
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On 5/29/07, Bruce M. Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> wrote: > Rudy Rucker wrote: > > > > This is an old problem with FreeBSD 6.x. > > > > Three questions: > > Why has this not been patched in the CVS tree? > It has already been fixed in -CURRENT. > > Unless, of course, this is a different bug. I believe the bug you are > referring to is the one whereby carp doesn't back out of allocations it > makes on member interfaces correctly. > > Is there a solution that works? > Not for RELENG_6. > > Should I be posting this to freebsd-questions? > Mu. > > It's unlikely the fix will be MFCed to RELENG_6 because it involves some > of the changes related to address refcounting which either break the ABI > or are not conservative enough for -STABLE. > > BMS So when do you think FreeBSD 7.0 will be branched with this fix? -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/
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