On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:14:20 -0800 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at osdl.org> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:29:17 -0500 > "Jay Libove" <libove at felines.org> wrote: > > > Recently, possibly since the most recent one or two kernel upgrades in > > Linux Fedora Core 5, my system has been crashing with a kernel panic. > > The panic prevents anything useful from being written to any log files, > > but on the crash trace left on the screen each time I always see > > something which looks like it is in the bridge code. > > > > If it is a server, please capture the console log during the panic output, > then developers can analyze it. > > Ways of doing that are (in order of usefulness): > > 1. Serial console - most reliable > 2. Camera picture with digital camera. Problem is screen resolution limits > the amount of info. Also not easy to get a good picture > 3. Netconsole. Problem is that for networking bugs, the panic output > may never make it out. > It's dying not in the bridge itself but in the netfilter hooks. What netfilter's are you running, and are you doing VLAN's? What hardware is being used?