[CUWiN-Dev] bugs bugs bugs ... and fixes

[David Young]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 04:17:28PM -0600, David Young wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 03:28:38PM -0600, tom at anotherwastedday.com wrote:
> > > Following recent bug fixes, ETX is working a lot better.
> > >
> > > Here are bugs that I have found, in order by severity:
> > >
> > >         1 Atheros hardware/driver goes out to lunch sometimes.

I found a serious bug last night and fixed it.  It has made a
world of difference in the uptime on several of our routers.
The Hello watchdog hasn't rebooted any of the routers in more
than eight hours.  I made a new NetBSD snapshot with the fix at
cuw:~dyoung/cuwin-netbsd-snap-8-Dec-2005.tgz.

Occasionally I see 'ath0: device timeout', and on certain nodes I see
'ath0: hardware error; resetting'.  The former indication marks a
"hiccup" in wireless transmissions that *will* be noticed by users.
It's a mystery to me why the latter indication affects some nodes more
than others, some times more than other times.

> > >         2 An interaction between hslsd, zebra, & dhclient makes zebra
> > >           delete the default route from Internet-connected nodes.
> > >
> > >         4 dhcpselect gratuitously stops/restarts hslsd & zebra

I will work on those, next.  Then,

> > >         3 hslsd crashes, which makes the routes flap
> > >
> > >         5 zebra does a RTM_DELETE / RTM_ADD instead of RTM_CHANGE,
> > >           so there are very short periods of time that we are without
> > >           a route.

Dave

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David Young             OJC Technologies
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