Subject: Re: PR-7148 (causes kernel panic)
To: Carlos Rungi <blackbox@openface.ca>
From: David Brownlee <abs@mono.org>
List: current-users
Date: 10/26/1999 17:58:10
This definitely sounds like a tech-net question.
Any of our sys/net experts care to chime in on this?
David/absolute
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Carlos Rungi wrote:
>
> Has anyone fixed or is anyone planning on fixing PR 7148 for the next release?
>
> This problem pretty much ensures that NetBSD cannot be used as a
> BGP border router with a full routing table view, which in my opinion, is a
> fairly useful application for the OS.
>
> There's a really easy patch to get around the problem, but I guess its not
> considered a 'real fix' or it would have been fixed already.
>
> Anybody who attempts to use NetBSD as a BGP router is going to hit this
> problem, and its fairly frustrating to track it down if you don't happen to
> know about it beforehand. I think any sort of fix at all would be well worth
> the time it will save people in the future.
>
> Erik Rungi
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>