Re: Odd arp stuff with 2.1.35

aaron t porter (atporter@entropy.muc.muohio.edu)
Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:16:16 -0400 (EDT)


I too have experienced this problem. Kernel 2.1.35 on a 486/40,
3c509, IDE, Network aliasing and IP aliasing support, no modules. I got
about 250 of these, then the system just died. No ping response, no
console response, no ctl-alt-del, had to hard boot. Got similar errors
but far fewer on my workstation. Obviously quite directly related to
network load.

Apr 20 08:11:29 entropy kernel: arp_free called from SPL=0
Apr 20 08:11:29 entropy kernel: arp_purge_send_q called from SPL=0
Apr 20 08:11:29 entropy kernel: arp_neigh_destroy called from SPL=0
Apr 20 08:11:29 entropy kernel: arp_purge_send_q called from SPL=0

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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I've been getting quite a number of these with 2.1.35. I'll look
> into causes, but I haven't really been reading this list for the
> past couple of weeks, so I may have missed the fix.
>
> System is: P120, NE2000 Clone, 64Mb, 3Gb Quantum Fireball EIDE, RH4.1
> Only kernel patch applied is my own custom radio patch, mentioned here
> about 3 weeks ago.
>
> Apr 22 13:00:42 pc29 kernel: arp_send_q called from SPL=0
> Apr 22 13:21:29 pc29 kernel: arp_free called from SPL=0
> Apr 22 13:21:29 pc29 kernel: arp_purge_send_q called from SPL=0
> Apr 22 13:21:29 pc29 kernel: arp_neigh_destroy called from SPL=0
> Apr 22 13:21:29 pc29 kernel: arp_purge_send_q called from SPL=0
> Apr 22 13:21:29 pc29 kernel: arp_free called from SPL=0
> Apr 22 13:21:29 pc29 kernel: arp_purge_send_q called from SPL=0
> Apr 22 13:21:29 pc29 kernel: arp_neigh_destroy called from SPL=0
> Apr 22 13:21:29 pc29 kernel: arp_purge_send_q called from SPL=0
> Apr 22 15:44:59 pc29 kernel: arp_send_q called from SPL=0
> Apr 22 15:44:59 pc29 kernel: arp_send_q called from SPL=0
> Apr 22 15:56:29 pc29 kernel: arp_free called from SPL=0
> Apr 22 15:56:29 pc29 kernel: arp_purge_send_q called from SPL=0
> Apr 22 15:56:29 pc29 kernel: arp_neigh_destroy called from SPL=0
> Apr 22 15:56:29 pc29 kernel: arp_purge_send_q called from SPL=0
>
> Apologies is this has already been dealt with.
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew.
>
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