Re: Summer of Code 2005: Improve Libalias

From: Mike Jakubik (mikej_at_rogers.com)
Date: 09/07/05

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    Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 20:52:15 -0400 (EDT)
To: "Paolo Pisati" <p.pisati@oltrelinux.com>

    On Tue, September 6, 2005 10:13 am, Paolo Pisati said:
    > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:06:57PM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
    >
    >> during your work with libalias have you found any bugs or buglets, or a
    >> rough places, that should be considered to be merged to main FreeBSD CVS
    >> tree as soon as possible, before next release?
    >
    > well, actually i didn't find any bugs in libalias that was not imputable
    > to my work, but i found 2 bugs in other parts of FreeBSD:
    >
    >
    > 1) kernel panic with ipfw as kld in 5.x and 6.x:
    >
    >
    > kldload ipfw.ko ipfw show (the 65k rule will show up) ipfw add 100 allow
    > all from any to any ipfw del 100 panic: kmem_malloc: entry not found or
    > misaligned
    >
    > tested on qemu only
    >
    > 2) natd crash receiving a SIGHUP
    >
    >
    > launch natd this way (as root):
    >
    > /sbin/natd -n <if> -v
    >
    >
    > where if is your nic
    >
    > then
    >
    > sudo killall -HUP natd
    >
    > natd will core dump
    >
    > i didn't have time to investigate any further, but if i'm not the only one
    > to see them, i can take a look...

    And what is the point of all of this when we have OpenBSD's PF? ipfw and
    libalias is dead.

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