From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) Subject: Re: Does pl10/net-2 panic for you? Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 23:34:35 GMT
dean@coplex.coplex.com (Dean Brooks) writes:
>markb@guba.newshost.meiko.com (Mark Burton) writes:
>>I have been using pl10 for a while now on a laptop connected to a
>>fairly heavily loaded ethernet network using a WD clone. The
>>functionality is good, ftp telnet etc all work ok.
>>My problem is that every now and again the kernel gets a general
>>protection violation somewhere in the network code. The EIP value
>>suggests it was in destroy_sock() at the time. (BTW how do I get to
>>source line number from the EIP value)
>Yup, we get this consistently. Others have posted that they
>too have seen it, but no one has acknowledged the problem
>is being fixed or even looked at.
>I am desperate for a fix, but haven't been able how to decipher
>the panic messages.
The problem is being worked on. The 'panic' seems to arise
from using NFS (at least that is one of the things that seems to
cause it)...as for the 'lock-up'...a bug in ip_retransmit
they are both being addressed...
marc