gogan@bbs.acs.unc.edu (Jim Gogan) (02/26/91)
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