Thanks for posting and alerting, John.. there are some systems
at Fermilab which could be affected by this bug.

Steve Timm


On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Jon Peatfield wrote:

> Having just suffered this when we upgraded one firewall to 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5 
> I did some searching in TUV's bugzilla and found a report which seems 
> strikingly similar - the kernel panics when iptables -j REJECT sends an icmp 
> back over a bridged interface...
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749813
>
> From that report it seems to affect all the 2.6.18-274* series of kernels so 
> we have backed off to 2.6.18-238.19.1.el5 for now - which appears to be 
> stable.
>
> I'm posting this here not because I expect any of the SL people to fix it (I 
> don't expect there to be a fix until TUV releases one), but in case anyone 
> else is suffering the same crashes and hasn't yet found the combination of 
> things which trigger it.
>
>

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