[c-nsp] 2811 crash...

[Tony Li]

>> I've got a 2811 that crashed with a bus error within a few hours of
>> enabling Netflow export.  I haven't opened a TAC case yet, but my
>> curiousity was aroused by the address at which the error occured....
>> "0xDEADBEF3".  This could almost be pronounced "Dead Beef"....
>
> Yes - traditionally it's 0xDEADBEEF, I guess Cisco felt the need to
> distinguish between different sides of beef and so dropped an 'E'  
> to add
> an index number :)


Actually what's probably happening is that some chunk of code has  
picked up this intentionally bogus value and is treating it as a  
pointer into a C structure and then referencing into that structure.

Tony