if one wants to retry connecting he can.  not being able to make a
network connection is a very common case so i guess it would be ok to
simply let it fail on this point instead of hanging and waiting.

rebooting sounds like a little bit too drastic for me. expecially if it
is about icmp sockets. devip just has too less context to make a good
decision.

the comment above the panic call also hinted that it was ment as some
kind of a bet or a debugging leftover so it felt save to remove it :)

anyway. the patch may or may not get applied or someone comes up
with a better solution. creating it was just a matter of seconds and i
apologize for blocking the patch tu^W^Wqueue if it caused any
inconvinience. :)

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panic("me is a boofhead");