Jens Mayer wrote:

quoted text
> Dear all,

>

> sorry to break the thread, but I did not have the originating message in my

> mailinglist folder anymore. Nonetheless, I want to reply to "carlopmart" who

> wrote on 2007-Jun-07:

>

>>  Last night my openbsd 4.1 has crashed and I don't know why. I am using

>>  this openbsd as a part of two carped firewalls.

>>

>>  Crash dump:

>>

>>  kernel:  page fault trap code=0

>>  Stopped at pfsync_insert_net_state+0x451: movl 0(%eax,%edx,4),%edx

>

> I experienced *exactly* the same problem.

>

> As I'm using a modified kernel also, I'm not sure if this is an official

> OpenBSD bug. Therefore, I switched the boxes back to GENERIC kernels for the

> time being, waiting for one of them to possibly break down again. Since the

> problem is not reproducable, it's hard to say if it only affects non-GENERIC

> kernel builds.

>

> We are running a classic carped firewall setup. As I can't file bugreports

> with customized kernels, I just wanted to give you this note.

>

> Differences between the customized kernel and GENERIC are:

>

> # option                LKM             # loadable kernel modules

> # option                EXT2FS          # Second Extended Filesystem

> # option                MFS             # memory file system

> # option                XFS             # xfs filesystem

> # option                NFSCLIENT       # Network File System client

> # option                NFSSERVER       # Network File System server

> # option                INET6           # IPv6 (needs INET)

> # option                PPP_BSDCOMP     # PPP BSD compression

> # option                PPP_DEFLATE

> # pseudo-device sppp    1       	# Sync PPP/HDLC

> # pseudo-device ppp             	# PPP

> # pseudo-device sl              	# CSLI

> # pseudo-device pppoe   1       	# PPP over Ethernet (RFC 2516)

>

> I also stripped down drivers I do not need, like soundcards, USB- and

> firewiredevices or buses I do not have, pretty much just to the things that

> are built into this box and really needed.

>

> Kind regards,

> Jens

> 

Thanks Jen. I have switched to GENERIC kernel too (without any modification) and

   I am waiting to reproduce this problem ....
--

CL Martinez

carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com