From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 30 14:26:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA08051 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:26:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08045 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:26:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA00613; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:25:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:25:04 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199806302125.OAA00613@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, orpheus@cray.com Subject: Re: junk pointer error on telnet, rsh In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:47:09 -0500 (CDT) >From: Jeffrey Dunitz >Now, something new and annoying happens. Look: >linuxbox:~> telnet freebsd >Trying 29.18.92.24... >Connected to freebsd.somewhere.com. >Escape character is '^]'. >inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. We had a similar situation with a server here. In our case, further investigation showed that the de0 interface was reporting an error for nearly every output packet (via "netstat -ni"). A re-boot showed the same result (with respect to "netstat -ni"). This was a 100Mb/s interface, BTW. I got a replacement Ethernet card to put in the machine; as I was about to take the old one out, it seemed to me that the de card wasn't properly seated... so I re-seated it & re-tried. Nope; immediately after re-boot, 324 outout errors our of 325 output packets. :-( Swapped in a fxp card... no LINK light at all. :-(! Swapped in a different fxp; much happier: [138] netstat -ni Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll fxp0 1500 00.a0.c9.c5.0c.f5 2130751 2 2452974 2 0 fxp0 1500 207.76.205 207.76.205.75 2130751 2 2452974 2 0 lo0 16384 44960 0 44960 0 0 lo0 16384 127 127.0.0.1 44960 0 44960 0 0 [139] uptime 2:21PM up 4 days, 10 mins, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 [140] ifconfig -a fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 207.76.205.75 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 207.76.205.255 ether 00:a0:c9:c5:0c:f5 media: autoselect lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 (Note: ifconfig says "SIMPLEX", but the switch says 100Mb/s, full duplex.) I've suggested making final improvements on the 2 other cards by driving my truck over'em a few times in the parking lot.... Hope this is useful, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message