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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 08:49:37 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Bill Beavers <bbeavers@Moonraker.afsc.k12.ar.us>
Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Fatal Trap Error
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On Wed, Oct 29, 1997 at 03:13:28PM +0000, Bill Beavers wrote:
> I posted this a few days ago but got no reponse so I wasn't sure if I
> just got lost in the shuffle.
>
> I have a FreeBSD box running version 2.1.7 being used as a dialup server
> for our community as a psuedo ISP (mostly educational purposes).  But
> after several various little problems with the modems, etc., I have
> started getting a Fatal Trap 12 error -- while in kernel mode.  I don't
> know what this means, but the machine seems to be going down constantly.
> Usually when a person calls into the first modem in the bank and then the
> server just crashes.  Can anyone shed some light on what might be
> happening here?  I am running a Pentium 200 with 128 megs of RAM, 16
> modems on a cyclades 16 port Y-e pci multiport board.

Please don't send this kind of message to -isp.  It has nothing
directly to do with ISPs.  -questions is the correct mailing list.
See http://www.lemis.com/questions.html for further details.

> I can provide further info if it will help.

Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook264.html#598
for what you need to do.

Greg