From owner-freebsd-net Wed Dec 18 14:36:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EF1837B401 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:36:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from pipenetworks.com (cartman.pipenetworks.com [202.4.251.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB45B43EE5 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:36:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@pipenetworks.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by pipenetworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) id gBIMWcK19421; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:32:38 +1000 From: Steve Baxter Received: from internal.pipenetworks.com (internal.pipenetworks.com [10.10.10.1]) by pipenetworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id gBIMWbV19388 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:32:37 +1000 Received: from internal (internal [10.10.10.1]) by internal.pipenetworks.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id gBIMjBc02067 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:45:11 +1000 Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:45:11 +1000 (EST) To: Subject: unexplained reboot of freebsd, looking for ways to debug Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-scanner: nil by mouth Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I have posted this hear as I think I have a networking related freebsd rebooting issue :) I am running a couple of FreeBSD boxes both 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD. I am using to bridge Ethernet over IP using both vtun and netgraph. I am using the netgraph script in /usr/share/examples/netgraph/ether.bridge to enable bridging as native bridging in this cut of code did not seem to work. Anyhow, to cut a long sotry short, both of my bridges were working very very well, I had tested them up to about 90Mb/sec over a public IP network and the ethernet cards generally lost frames at arounf 5000 frames/sec mark (about 1 frame in 8000) before the boxes ran into any issues. In the last week though I have been doing moderate amounts of load on these bpxes and they have been rebooting as random intervals - somtimes within minutes of each other. Before this they were working perfectly for 4 months ! What I am after is a way to turn on some form of debugging in order to find out what is causing this problem. There are no messages left in any of the var/log files that are of any help. Is there some form of crash logging or something I can switch on so when the next time it happens I can do some sort of analysis on the problem. PS. I am appreciate I am running RELEASE but it has worked for so long and if anybody can give me a set of steps to upgrade these boxes to a later rev that can be performed over an ssh session I would be very grateful :-) -- Stephen Baxter Director - PIPE Networks phone : 07 3220 1100/ 0417 818 695 fax : 07 3220 1800 ______________________________________ PIPE Networks/IX Services Australia disclaimer The above email should be read in conjunction with our standard disclaimer/terms which can be found at : http://www.pipenetworks.com/docs/disclaimer.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message