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From: schoenfr@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Erik Schoenfelder)
Subject: Re: System reset on TCP connect   (a me-too followup)
Message-ID: <1993Apr27.191444.29243@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 19:14:44 GMT
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Hi!

gnn@cs.utwente.nl (George Neville-Neil) writes:

> The problem is that whenever I try to execute a connect call I the machine
> reboots.  I don't have ethernet hardware and netstat reports that there
> is an lo0 device and ping works as well.  

Me too. The same happens on my 386/387 with ide-drive and no
ethernetcard.
Running a kernel without an ethernet driver does not change
this behavior.

>	When running a program that I wrote which does a simple connect
> to the discard address in the debugger I get this information just before
> the reboot.  It says that it crashed in vm_fault becasue of a trap 12.

A telnet or rlogin to localhost does the same. But I have not seen any
error or panic message. Instant reboot only.

>	Any ideas on this?

Sorry, no ideas.  But it does not seem to be your fault.

Erik