Re: Kernel panic from network traffic

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Andy Ruhl wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost> wrote:
> > Being a moron, I plugged ports of my switch together. The big surprise
> > is two ports away is my -current box and it kept panicking.
>
> Hello fellow moron :)
>
> I have a general question:
>
> I see some comments around unifying route caches, but in this
> particular case it seems related to ipv6. Is this an ipv6 problem or a
> general problem? I have a -current machine and it's not likely to
> encounter this particular scenario (sorry, heh), but wondering anyway.

I'm not sure of what kind of flood of traffic was seen at the -current
box (tcpdump wasn't being helpful) but I kind of doubt it was IPv6 only.
But who knows? My guess is that there is IPv6 routing traffic mixed in
with a whole lot of garbage from my switch.

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