Sure. We would love to get some serious exposure. The panics you were 
seeing were probably due to missing locking framework not done
while create/modify/delete of NICs/VNICs/flows. This beta would
would focus on functionality, stability and performance.

Cheers,
Sunay

Siobhan P. Lynch wrote:
> Nice, if you need help with the beta testing extensively under
> "production" conditions, we're using this in a pilot of our hardware
> product (obviously I can't give too much info without someone signing an
> NDA), I'd love to work with you guys on providing feedback on the beta
> release.
> 
> Even the old beta works great on the boxes that it hasn't panic'd on.
> I'm still not 100% sure why some (ostensibly identical) boxes panic and
> others don't, however I'll be doing some comparison of PCI ids and
> outputs of prtconf and prtdiag outputs, to see if hardware is slightly
> different on what SHOULD be the identical motherboard.
> 
> -SPL
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sunay Tripathi [mailto:Sunay.Tripathi at sun.com] 
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 4:54 PM
> To: Siobhan P. Lynch
> Cc: rajagopal.kunhappan at sun.com; crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Subject: Re: [crossbow-discuss] Panic on incoming TCP requests on snv61
> with XB 15 installed via Snapshot
> 
> I think that is the target. We are starting a extensive beta in a few
> weeks. If that goes well, then the current target to merge in nevada
> is late april/early may. We will be able to accurately predict this
> after the beta is done.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sunay
> 
> Siobhan P. Lynch wrote:
>> What are the chances of this being merged into the main branch within
> a
>> few months? I'd love to be able to use a standard SXCE install for
>> this... and then the bfu archives for security related upgrades.
>>
>> -SPL
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rajagopal Kunhappan [mailto:rajagopal.kunhappan at sun.com] 
>> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 2:46 PM
>> To: Siobhan P. Lynch
>> Cc: crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org
>> Subject: Re: [crossbow-discuss] Panic on incoming TCP requests on
> snv61
>> with XB 15 installed via Snapshot
>>
>>
>>
>> Siobhan Patricia Lynch wrote:
>>> Hi all, I am having a major issue here, our product now relies upon
>> vnics inside non-global zones as a way to solve a routing problem we
>> encounter when using OpenVPN on a global zone.
>>> Problem being, we have two machines working in the field just fine,
>> but now I'm consistently getting panics on incoming TCP connects
> (tried
>> with ssh, telnet, and FTP ports):
>>> panic[cpu0]/thread=d2be1de0: BAD TRAP: type=e (#pf Page fault)
>> rp=d2be1ca4 addr=ec occurred in module "unix" due to a NULL pointer
>> dereference
>>> sched: #pf Page fault
>>> Bad kernel fault at addr=0xec
>>> pid=0, pc=0xfe832cbd, sp=0xf9259d00, eflags=0x10246
>>> cr0: 8005003b<pg,wp,ne,et,ts,mp,pe> cr4:
>> 6f8<xmme,fxsr,pge,mce,pae,pse,de>
>>> cr2: ec cr3: 1f31000
>>>          gs: d2be01b0  fs: d2be0000  es:      160  ds: d2be0160
>>>         edi:        0 esi:       ec ebp: d2be1d1c esp: d2be1cdc
>>>         ebx:       80 edx: d2be1de0 ecx:       ec eax:        0
>>>         trp:        e err:        2 eip: fe832cbd  cs:      158
>>>         efl:    10246 usp: f9259d00  ss:       ec
>>>
>>> d2be1bfc unix:die+98 (e, d2be1ca4, ec, 0)
>>> d2be1c90 unix:trap+11c4 (d2be1ca4, ec, 0)
>>> d2be1ca4 unix:_cmntrap+7c (d2be01b0, d2be0000,)
>>> d2be1d1c unix:mutex_enter+d (80, 0, 0, 1)
>>> d2be1d78 ip:squeue_drain+165 (d27b4e40, 2, 97215e)
>>> d2be1dc8 ip:squeue_worker+1be (d27b4e40, 0)
>>> d2be1dd8 unix:thread_start+8 ()
>>>
>>> syncing file systems... done
>>>
>>> I haven't started a full crash dump analysis, because I was hping
>> maybe this is a known issue, and is fixed in a later version.
>>> Also, which might be helpful, I'm using a GLDv3 bfe driver (v2.6.0a)
>> that was compiled on another snv61-xb_15 machine (my laptop)
>>> Also, where can I find sources to XB that I can build with nv78 or
>> higher? I'm not thriolled in basing a security product off an older
>> build, I don't mind rolling a new archive to bfu with on these
> machines,
>> but all I really care about is a stable machine that allows TCP to
> work
>> normally.
>>>   
>> We are working on releasing newer crossbow bits and sources based on 
>> nv79 either this week or next. So hopefully the panic is fixed in that
> 
>> and your above security concern will be allayed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -krgopi
>>> -SPL
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