Do you have CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST enabled in your .config? I don't, and a couple of the changes in this changeset depend upon it. I also run ospfd, so maybe you've hit upon something here...cc'ing linux-net for comment Phil p.s. here's a bookmarkable link to that changeset: http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset@401ee07fZyaInErbsMYxlCIQSlevFQ?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-9M On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 08:33:16PM +0300, Hasso Tepper wrote: > Now when linux.bkbits.net is working again, I walked through patches > between 2.4.25-pre8 and 2.4.25-rc1 and reverted this patch - > http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset% > 401.1290.17.1?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-9M > > This solved problem for me, seems (tested only with 2.4.25-rc1 for > now). I had feeling that it's related to multicast from the beginning > because I couldn't reproduce panic when I hadn't ospfd daemon running > (ospf uses multicast). - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html