On the command: ping6 -m -s 1460 node I get a panic with the following (hand transcribed): Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x4 fault code = supervisor read, page not present inruction pointer = 0x8:0xc052dc52 stack pointer = 0x10:0xdb31cc08 frame pointer = 0x10:-xdb31c44 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume IOPL = 0 current process = 1043 (ping6) [thread pid 1043 tid 100095 ] Stopped at soreceive+0x556: movl 0x4(%eax),%eax db> trace Tracing pid 1043 tid 100095 td 0xc21a47d0 soreceive(c2151b64,db31cc6c,db31cc78,0,c1c38500) at soreceive+0x556 recvit(c21a47d0,3,db31ccc0,0,c1b3d930) at recvit+0x1c7 recvmsg(c21a47d0,db31cd14,3,1,292) at recvmsg+0x5f syscall(bfbf002f,2f,bfbf002f,bfbfe82c,8077800,) at syscall+0x27b Xint0x80_syscall() at Xint0x80_syscall+0x1f --- syscall (27, FreeBSD ELF32, recvmsg), eip = 0x280fb3d3, esp = 0xbfbfe76c,ebp = 0xbfbfecf4 --- Looks a lot like the large size might be over-writing something. Reproducable at will. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634