On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:43:25PM -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote:
> On 8/20/07, VANHULLEBUS Yvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I tracked down the problem a few years ago, on FreeBSD 4.11, with
> > KAME's IPSec stack.
> >
> > But the problem was not really in the stack itself, but rather in
> > socket processing (in other words: not in netkey/*, but in
> > kern/uipc_socket2.c).
> >
> > And as both IPSec stacks shares some PFKey constraints (for example
> > one message per entry when dumping SADB / SPD), I guess the same
> > problem existed in FAST_IPSEC.
> >
> > But when I had some time a few months ago to start filling a PR for
> > the problem, I had a look at FreeBSD6 source code, and I noticed that
> > sbspace macro (which was a quite important part of the problem) has
> > changed, and I didn't have the required setup to do the test again, so
> > I just can't be really sure the problem still exists...
> >
> > But the reported problem really has similar symptoms.....
> 
> Thank you Yvan and George!
> 
> The PR has been filed and the ID# is
> 
> kern/115651
> 
> I have added some interesting notes that seem to affect NetBSD as well.
> 
> We will be happy to work with anyone to get this solved and access to
> the machine in question is available if need be.

I'd also like to express an interest in helping with this problem in any
way possible. We're running into the same problem on our fileservers and
have had to rollback a large project when we unexpectedly discovered the
problem.

Thanks,

-- 
Chris Cowart
Lead Systems Administrator
Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT
UC Berkeley

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