Subject: Re: Creating a GRE interface wedges my machine
To: Sorin Cioara <sorin@vanten.com>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/05/2004 12:10:06
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 03:32:08PM +0900, Sorin Cioara wrote:
> (First post here, so please be gentle...)

We always are - aren't we?

> The problem is, that while I was trying to figure out why packets were 
> escaping into the ether never to return, I managed to wedge the 
> machines a few times. I can't reproduce the sequence every time, but 
> basically when I issued the
> "ifconfig gre0 create inet 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.192 
> up" command the machine just locked.

Could this be a similar effect than the endless recursion described
in this PR?

http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=21483

Martin