Jason McIntyre wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 05:33:58PM +0100, Dirk Mast wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> my dmesg is filled with this message
>> cksum: out of data
>> and i can't find out from where it is (has something to do with
>> the internet connection going up and down).
>> 
>> It's a Alix 2c3 Board running as a DSL-Router
>> and what I suspect might be the issue is serving
>> a sixxs.net IPv6 tunnel (via aiccu).
>> 
>> /var/log/messages contain this message everytime the
>> internet connection goes down
>> 
>> /bsd: cksum: out of data
>> 
>> Is this message something to ignore, or to investigate further?
>> 
> 
> i had these appear on machine about june/july of last year, which was
> running -current. i discussed it with some developers, but no one ever
> got to the bottom of it.
> 
> then they stopped. i don;t know why, but presumably after installing a
> newer snapshot.
> 
> then this week they came back, two or three times, again on a box
> running -current (as of jan 9th). i haven;t seen them in a few days (nor
> have i upgraded the box).
> 
> sorry i can;t be of more help. oh, i run a sixxs tunnel too ;)
> 
> jmc


> sorry i can;t be of more help. oh, i run a sixxs tunnel too ;)
Seems like we can somehow reduce the problem ;)

I'll now stop running aiccu for 2 days or so, hopefully the messages
will disappear then.

Actually I think they don't represent a too big problem, but 
a spammed dmesg/messages is not nice and something which writes
there should have a reason to do so.

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