Racoon breakage with recent kernel - what NOT to do

[Hannes Mehnert]

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Hi,

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 08:29:55PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:52:48 +0200, Hannes Mehnert <hannes at mehnert.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 03:32:18PM -0600, Mike Durian wrote:
> > > This is just a follow-up to say the problem still exists in a -current
> > > system I built from source yesterday (7/11/04).  Does anyone know
> > > what's going on?
> > > 
> > > And to clarify, the URL listed above does show the same problem I'm
> > > seeing.
> > 
> > A workaround is setting MSIZE to 320 in your kernel config:
> > options		MSIZE=320
> 
> Well, I applied this tweak to my kernel config file (some time ago!) and
> it fixed the racoon issue.... **BUT** doing this badly breaks dtom() - all
> sorts of issues turn up when a data pointer can't be turned back into its
> owning mbuf pointer.

I'm currently using MSIZE=512 and get no panic.

Best Regards,

Hannes Mehnert
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