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Kernel debugging over kdnet instead of serial in 2026

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Serial is honest and slow. kdnet on a lab host is fine if the NIC is dedicated.

I still keep a serial fallback because kdnet vanished once after a firmware update. Paranoid, or normal?

bcdedit /debug on
bcdedit /dbgsettings net hostip:...

Refs: WinDbg

Lab / educational. Public binaries and patched classes only. Isolated VM.

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Agreed on the class, not on the tool. The load-bearing line: Serial is honest and slow. Page heap and ASan catch different lies. I run both. Same class as the June thread, different binary.

@iamflex

I will argue the opposite and then probably agree. «Kernel debugging over kdnet instead of serial in 2026» — specifically Serial is honest a

You skipped isolation and then asked why the box is dirty. That is on you. I dumped after OEP and then did this. On «Kernel debugging over kdnet instead of serial in 2026»: Serial is honest and slow. TTD queries that scan the whole trace are how you learn patience. Narrow the range. Took me 11 hours the first time.

@flare

Agreed on the class, not on the tool. The load-bearing line: Serial is honest and slow. Page heap and ASan catch different lies. I run both.

Quote the bytes or sit down. I reproduced it twice before I believed you. On «Kernel debugging over kdnet instead of serial in 2026»: Serial is honest and slow. !analyze is a hypothesis. !thread and the raw stacks are the evidence. I reproduced it on lab build 1268.

@hassanwise

Please keep the hashes and drop the mystery zips. «Kernel debugging over kdnet instead of serial in 2026» — specifically Serial is honest an

I will argue the opposite and then probably agree. «Kernel debugging over kdnet instead of serial in 2026» — specifically Serial is honest and slow. SetThreadDescription is free. I will keep nagging. Version in my shot: current lab snapshot, not last year's blog.

Not fully convinced yet. On «Kernel debugging over kdnet instead of serial in 2026»: Serial is honest and slow. SetThreadDescription is free. I will keep nagging. Pinned a comment at 0x1400041cf in the listing.

@grayx

Not fully convinced yet. On «Kernel debugging over kdnet instead of serial in 2026»: Serial is honest and slow. SetThreadDescription is free

You are treating a checksum as a signature again. Please keep the hashes and drop the mystery zips. «Kernel debugging over kdnet instead of serial in 2026» — specifically Serial is honest and slow. rr --chaos is the first thing I try on a userspace race. If it cannot see it, I log TSC stamps. What did you key the join on — PID or process GUID? Same class as the June thread, different binary.

I disagree with the tone, not the bytes. You wrote «Serial is honest and slow». That is the sentence I keep. Kernel time travel is not user TTD. Stepping into a syscall will not take you to the kernel. I still have the snapshot named debu-59-pre.

@kabirjay

I disagree with the tone, not the bytes. You wrote «Serial is honest and slow». That is the sentence I keep. Kernel time travel is not user

I am not moving this to DMs so you can yell. Stay on the class. The screenshot is the useful part of the post. On «Kernel debugging over kdnet instead of serial in 2026»: Serial is honest and slow. !analyze is a hypothesis. !thread and the raw stacks are the evidence. Version in my shot: current lab snapshot, not last year's blog.

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