Having just suffered this when we upgraded one firewall to
2.6.18-274.7.1.el5 I did some searching in TUV's bugzilla and found a
report which seems strikingly similar - the kernel panics when iptables -j
REJECT sends an icmp back over a bridged interface...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749813
From that report it seems to affect all the 2.6.18-274* series of kernels
so we have backed off to 2.6.18-238.19.1.el5 for now - which appears to be
stable.
I'm posting this here not because I expect any of the SL people to fix it
(I don't expect there to be a fix until TUV releases one), but in case
anyone else is suffering the same crashes and hasn't yet found the
combination of things which trigger it.
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