RE: Wackamole on FreeBSD 5.1 will not start

-----Original Message-----
From: Theo Schlossnagle
To: [email protected]
Cc: Theo Schlossnagle
Sent: 10/19/03 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Wackamole-users] Wackamole on FreeBSD 5.1 will not start

My guess is that this is an uninitialized variable.

I will try to run wackamole under valgrind on Linux to track this down 
(unless someone beats me to it -- any takers).
---End Original Message----

Theo - 

I'm working with Matt on this project. The real head-scratching part of this
is that after rolling back the OS on our test machines to FreeBSD 4.9-RC2,
spread and wackamole perform flawlessly. 

As far as I can tell, there wasn't anything radically different in the
kernel configurations, though device support for the onboard ethernet
controllers (Broadcom Gigabit adapters) seems a little sketchy under 5.1.

The chipsets for our particular cards didn't get full support until 4.9.
Under 5.1, the NICs were detected and seemed to function fine, but we saw
some strange messages in the startup logs that we don't see when booting
under 4.9-RC2.

I've dug through the release notes, early adopter guide and BSD list
archives trying to find out what might have been causing this (some subtle
change in the way sockets are handled, something security or jail-related,
etc), but have come up empty-handed. Using 5.1 is not a show-stopper for our
particular project...it just baffled the hell out of me, though my kernel
hacking abilities are admittedly pretty limited.

JQ