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From: miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: [2.0 packages] Wy won't they install?
Date: 24 Jan 1995 21:59:39 GMT
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jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:

>That package is a little broken.  I'd like to say that all the 2.0R packages
>worked, but they didn't.

That's qool - the package as a whole is very impressive regardless.

>Do you know for a fact that the portal code is broken?
>The author who's talk I just attended here seems to feel otherwise! :-)

*gah* Let me guess, it's the union and log filesystems that the README
warns you about?  memory...

>				Jordan

Speaking of memory, here's one I don't really expect an answer to, but
if any of the kernel people can comment, I'd be interested to hear on :

I put together a small (386dx25/4M) FreeBSD 2.0 system as a gateway
last night.  It has some serious memory problems, but I managed to nurse
it through to the end of the binary install, and left it running (because
the disk in it suffers from stiction).  When I got up this morning,
it was sitting there rebooting, fscking, dying during the fsck 
(a couple of different problems, either 'bdev missing' or a page fault in
kernel mode, both memory problems I presume 8).  

Anyway, I resigned to getting a new motherboard, and sat down to read my
mail and move some stuff around on another machine.  While this was in
full swing, the cripple came up, and while it was booting, the system
I was using froze, and then rebooted (no dump, no console errors that I 
saw, nada).  Needless to say, I lost lots 8)

Anyway; my suspicion is that the cripple emitted a seriously bogus ethernet
packet, and killed the kernel on the other machine...

As I am planning on doing some serious ethernet development work in the
coming months, I'm a little concerned : how robust is the FreeBSD/4.4 kernel
when it comes to packets with sharp corners?

Any comments of interest...

--
# mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey        #
# "The question 'why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical'  #
# then invites the trivial response 'because we define as fundamental  #
# those laws which are mathematical'". Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_. #