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From: gogan@bbs.acs.unc.edu (Jim Gogan)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: KA9Q problems/errors
Keywords: ka9q router
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Date: 26 Feb 91 01:59:16 GMT
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We're using the KA9Q package (in conjunction with the IPXPKT
program - part of the Clarkson packet driver package) as
a router between two networks.  With IPXPKT, it becomes
more or less an "encapsulating router" -- wrapping IP packets
in IPX, taking them to KA9Q router, which puts straight IP
on the Ethernet.  It's crude, but it gives us a way to provide
direct Internet access to PCs on Novell networks that are
attached to an Allen-Bradley VistaLAN channel on our campus
broadband.  Anyway .........
this configuration has been running fine for several months now,
but over the weekend, the KA9Q router died with a screen full
of the following error message:
"free: WARNING! invalid pointer (0X[a 4-byte hex number here]) pc=
0x2a01 1d 0 proc network"

At that point, the KA9Q PC router needs to be rebooted, killing the
sessions that it's routing for.  This has happened about a half-dozen times
in the last 24 hours now, after running flawlessly for months.

As anyone seen error messages from KA9Q like this?  Any thoughts?

-- Jim Gogan (gogan@samba.acs.unc.edu)
   Networking Systems
   Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


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