Re: about kernel OOPS

Bart De Schuymer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday 24 July 2003 09:32, josh wrote:
> Hi Bart,
> After I applied your patch the following message appears (so far 89
> times over the last ~20 hours) in my /var/log/kern.log:
>
> Jul 24 10:16:04 ids kernel: br_netfilter: Argh!! br_nf_post_routing:
> bad mac.raw pointer.[eth0][br0]
> Jul 24 10:16:30 ids kernel: br_netfilter: Argh!! br_nf_post_routing:
> bad mac.raw pointer.[eth0][br0]
> Jul 24 10:17:43 ids kernel: br_netfilter: Argh!! br_nf_post_routing:
> bad mac.raw pointer.[eth0][br0]
> Jul 24 10:25:10 ids kernel: br_netfilter: Argh!! br_nf_post_routing:
> bad mac.raw pointer.[eth0][br0]
>
> I found this patch you wrote

> but I do not know if it is applicable. What does "bad mac.raw pointer"
> mean?

This is most likely a driver problem. What network device driver are you 
using? Try another network card and device driver.
Anyone who has had this problem hasn't been very helpful in finding out what 
exactly is causing it.

cheers,
Bart



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