From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262598AbTJ3P7u (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:59:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262601AbTJ3P7u (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:59:50 -0500 Received: from janus1.ktb.net ([198.175.228.34]:48146 "EHLO janus1.ktb.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262598AbTJ3P7t (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:59:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:59:45 -0800 From: ashley@alumni.caltech.edu To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6 crashes when IP-forwarding Message-ID: <3FA13571.nail4NJ12O97N@alumni.caltech.edu> User-Agent: nail 10.5 4/27/03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I am sorry that I can't be more specific now, but I have spent the last several days trying to track down a kernel-panic problem. I first thought it was hardware and I swapped it all out. System: 1.33 MHz Athlon Asus mb 1Gb memory either tulip or 8139too ethernet card. Symptom: system works perfectly with a ppp dialup until a second machine on the net routes IP requests through the this machine. Then this machine either crashes with a kernel panic or simply locks up completely. I started with the 2.6 test4 kernel which had been working for several weeks. Then I applied the sequence of patches all the way up to test9. The system was stable with test4 but unstable with test9. Then I went back to test4 and applied the patches up to test7, and the lockup/kernel-panic problem exists for test7. Along the way I downloaded all the patches a second time and tried to verify that the downloads were valid. I noted that the patch8 is now different from what it was when I originally downloaded it.