[OpenAFS-devel] Re: cmdebug weirdness

[Alf Wachsmann]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Alf Wachsmann wrote:
> Using "cmdebug" from OpenAFS-1.2.5 against a Linux AFS client machine
> running OpenAFS-1.2.5 I get weird output for the
> "IP address (in hex) of the server holding the callback promise"
> (this is from http://www.transarc.ibm.com/Support/afs/debug/cmdebug.html).
>  [...]
> The server holding the callback is "c4fdcea0" which translates to
> 196.253.206.160. This is not a valid IP address for any of our
> fileservers.

To follow up my own posting: Someone pointed out to me that the Transarc
web page about cmdebug is plain wrong. It is not the IP address returned
by cmdebug but a pointer to an IP address.

The dereference this point the output of "kdump" from the client cmdebug
is run against is necessary.

-- Alf.

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