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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: dummynet causes crash?
To: green@unixhelp.org (Brian Feldman)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:10:54 +0100 (MET)
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> > > fault virtual address	= 0xdeadc116
> > 
> > interestingly enough, the above address is "0xdeadbeef + 551 (decimal)".
> > It looks like somehow a wrong route entry was passed to ether_output().
...
> {"/home/green"}$ calc 0xdeadc116 - 0xdeadc0de
>         56
> possibly? IIRC 0xdeadc0de is used to fill freed memory areas in certain cases,
> to help detect programming errors related to such.

you are right, a much better guess, and more helpful hint.

	cheers
	luigi

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