tech-net: Re: PCI network driver -- receive pkts with 0xDEADBEEF

Subject: Re: PCI network driver -- receive pkts with 0xDEADBEEF
To: Shashi Rao <shashi-list@bothan.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-net
Date: 02/07/2001 21:33:26

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:29:03PM -0800, Shashi Rao wrote:
> 
> any ideas on what might be wrong? i wondered if i was using freed
> mbufs (if such a thing is possible, but i couldnt find any instance
> of that either)

Well, 0xDEADBEEF is a magic value written by some code to mark a freed
object - I think mbuf is one of them.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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