From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262071AbULQRDl (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:03:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262073AbULQRDl (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:03:41 -0500 Received: from 209-166-240-202.cust.walrus.com ([209.166.240.202]:17105 "EHLO ti41.telemetry-investments.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262071AbULQRDh (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:03:37 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:03:36 -0500 From: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." To: Matt Mackall Cc: Park Lee , pmarques@grupopie.com, mingo@redhat.com, linux-os@chaos.analogic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ipsec-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Issue on netconsole vs. Linux kernel oops Message-ID: <20041217170336.GA12057@ti64.telemetry-investments.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." , Matt Mackall , Park Lee , pmarques@grupopie.com, mingo@redhat.com, linux-os@chaos.analogic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ipsec-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net References: <20041217121220.9782.qmail@web51510.mail.yahoo.com> <20041217164419.GO2767@waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041217164419.GO2767@waste.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 08:44:19AM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote: > Netconsole builds very simple IPv4 packets by hand without the use of > the rest of the IP stack. This is how it continues to work when the > system is crashing. So it will never be able to build IPSEC packets. > Nor is it likely to do IPv6 any time soon. A useful (and perhaps relatively painless?) addition to netconsole would be VLAN support. This is somewhere near the middle of my TODO list. Regards, Bill Rugolsky