Re: mysterious 2.0.33 crashes

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:11:31 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Jos Vos wrote:

> Klaus Lichtenwalder wrote:
>
> > Ok, let's try another guess. It's down in the network (masq?) code.
> > Maybe something that overwrites kernel structures? I dare to remind you
> > that I had strange routing effects on my isdn setup (ducking... ;-)
>
> I don't use masquerading at all, although it's enabled in the kernel.

I have a router running 2.0.33 with 3 3c509's in use. The system
routes between eth0 and eth1 and masqs for eth3 (eth2 is another 3c509,
but isn't working). Uptime is 48 days, and reboots have only been to
upgrade kernels. Last time it was rebooted due to kernel bugs was back at
2.0.2x when there were some problems in the route garbage collection
(IIRC) that would hose networking after certain types of DoS attacks.
Other than that, this box normally runs several months between reboots.

The system is a Tyan Tomcat III, P100, 32mb parity, NCR810 SCSI, 4 3c509.

CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KERNELD=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA=m
CONFIG_STACKEXEC=y
CONFIG_STACKEXEC_LOG=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
CONFIG_M586=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m
CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_RST_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE=y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y
CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY=y
CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG=y
CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTER=y
CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m
CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC=y
CONFIG_SCSI_OMIT_FLASHPOINT=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=4
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=5
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_EL3=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC=y
CONFIG_ULTRA=m
CONFIG_NET_EISA=y
CONFIG_DEC_ELCP=m
CONFIG_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_SYMLINK_FIX=y
CONFIG_SYMLINK_LOG=y
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y
CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT=y
CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG=y
CONFIG_SOFTDOG_EXTRAS=y
CONFIG_RTC=y

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