On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:59:35PM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:16:46PM +0200, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > > Dan, > > > > - It could be that you encountered (or "discovered") a kernel BUG > > with the locking mechansim of bridge devices. > > > > - What I would suggest is the following: > > > > - First, If you can give more details (kernel version / disto) it would > > help. > > > > - Second, if you can post this mailing list the scripts you are > > running (for adding/deleting the tun device) and describe > > the environment (how you exactly start and configure the tun devices, > > etc). that cause this crash it will really help. > > > > I, for one , will happily try to test it on two Linux machines to see > > if it crash , and I believe that there will be others. > > Thanks. But it's rather hard to reproduce. > It happens quite often in our complex environment, but it did not appear when > I > tried to brctl addif/delif in from simple scripts. If I come up with something > that's simple to post and reproduces the problem, you'll be the first to know.
Oops, I did not live up to my promise. Redhat were first to know. Well, I am not completely sure it is the same thing, but games with tunnel interfaces and bridges can cause RHEL 5 kernel to panic. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438629 -- Dan Kenigsberg http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~danken ICQ 162180901 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
