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Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 19:57:39 -0700 (MST)
From: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net>
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Subject: Re: Bus Errors
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On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Jamie Bowden wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Charles Mott wrote:
> 
> > What does "Bus error" mean?
> > 
> 
> Amazingly enough, a buss error is a memory allocation error.  At least it 
> was under SunOS.  I am guessing FreeBSD is the same on this.
> 
> Jamie Bowden
> 
> Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.

I've seen it a few times with the ppp+pktAlias1.9.  It doesn't appear to 
be getting malloc() errors, though.  I see the problem with an ISP 
connection that is really unreliable.  Is anyone working on lqr for ppp?

Is this type of post too off-target for -hackers?