Re: The stability crisis

Pauline Middelink (middelin@polyware.nl)
Fri, 2 Jul 1999 20:00:42 +0200


On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 01:52:11PM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >>>>> "Brian" == brian <brian@worldcontrol.com> writes:
> Brian> I would like my oops'ing systems to send the oops to another
> Brian> system via an ethernet interface. How about a UDP packet?
> Brian> Nice connectionless protocol. Compile the MAC/IP address into
> Brian> the kernel. Opps occurs, build the UDP packet with the measly
> Brian> 2K oops message in it and send.
>
> Before you can do this you need a hardware address for the receiver,
> this can of course be done by putting it statically into this special
> driver. Alternatively you need a fair amount of a network stack to run
> before you can first get the hw address via ARP, and then send out a
> message with the oops info. Now this requires a sorta functional
> Ethernet driver to get anywhere and often your interrupts are dead.

Broadcast the packet :)

Met vriendelijke groet,
Pauline Middelink

-- 
PGP Key fingerprint = DE 6B D0 D9 19 AD A7 A0  58 A3 06 9D B6 34 39 E2
For more details look at my website http://www.polyware.nl/~middelin

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/