site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Herbert writes:

I've checked the IP address of the server and the ip the dump machine is supposted to send to and they are the same. I have all machines set to manual with a static ip. There is no router however. I don't know if that would cause a problem or not.

But nothing I have tried will let the panic machine dump to the server.

Help! (Please!)

In 10.3, I saw similar behaviour. I found that I had to manually set a default route after boot in order to get a crashdump to work. If I did not do that, then I'd see that the destination mac address used by the crashing mac for the panic server was all zeros. Attempting connection to panic server configured at IP 172.31.193.10 Routing via router MAC address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Kernel map size is 913719296 Sending write request for core-xnu-517-172.31.193.9-8175b600 TX retry #3 TX retry #4 TX retry #5 TX retry #6 TX retry #7 TX retry #8 TX retry #9 TX retry #10 TX retry #11 TX retry #12 TX retry #13 TX retry #14 TX retry #15 Cannot contact panic server, timing out I verified that the destination mac was all zeros with a traffic sniffer. This caused the dump server to drop the packets. After looking at the code, I realized that the router mac address gets set when setting a route. I've found that if I simply do: route delete default 172.31.193.254 route add default 172.31.193.254 then the "router" address is set, and dumps work as expected (via bouncing off the router). Things seem to just work for me with 10.4 BTW, I posted much of this information to darwin-kernel on Sept 1, 2004, but for some reason it is not in the archives at lists.apple.com. Drew _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com