* 2.5.36 - "Dead loop on virtual device lo, fix it urgently!"
@ 2002-09-18 20:51 Marc-Christian Petersen
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From: Marc-Christian Petersen @ 2002-09-18 20:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Hi there,
from: net/core/dev.c
....
} else {
/* Recursion is detected! It is possible,
* unfortunately */
if (net_ratelimit())
printk(KERN_DEBUG "Dead loop on virtual device "
"%s, fix it urgently!\n", dev->name);
}
....
hehe, "It is possible, unfortunately" and I hit it :)
just having lo, eth0 and eth0:2, nothing special, no tunnels etc. :)
appears, reproducable, with "apt-get update" or any other kind of some
high network load. NIC is an Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 card using the
"original Becker driver".
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