bge0: discard frame w/o packet header

[Vlad GALU]

On 2/15/07, Kip Macy <kip.macy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The "discard frame w/o packet header" message comes from ether_input()
> > if it gets an mbuf that doesn't have the M_PKTHDR flag set.  That
> > can't happen unless something is very wrong with the system.  I'd like
> > to make it a panic.  At least then the machine would reboot instead of
> > just becoming unreachable.  Any objections?
>
> Please don't make it the default. Odds are ifconfig down, ifconfig up
> would fix it for those of us with console access. Either way it sounds
> like someone has discovered a DOS in bge.

   It's present in at least sk(4) as well. I saw it recently.

>         -Kip
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