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From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx•dk>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash•net>
Cc: "netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bisect'ed BUG in VLAN promisc mode (6c78dcbd47)
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:34:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222457670.2381.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48DD37E3.9090706@trash.net>

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 21:28 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 18:14 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> >>> Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> >>>> Hi Patrick,
> >>>>
> >>>> Bisected me down to one of you changes
> >>>>  commit 6c78dcbd47a68a
> >>>>  [VLAN]: Fix promiscous/allmulti synchronization races
> >>>>
> >>>> Description:
> >>>> ------------
> >>>>  All other VLAN interfaces stop working, if a vlan is taken down
> >>>>  (ifconfig eth1.1025 down) _while_ there is a tcpdump running on that
> >>>>  interface.
> >>>>
> >>>>  The problem is a result of promisc mode being removed on the
> >>>>  real-device (eth1), when the vlan interface is taken down.  This
> >>>>  should not happen as other vlan devices exists that still need
> >>>>  promisc mode on the real-device (eth1).
> >>> I'm pretty sure we fixed this already in commit 0ed21b32.
> >>
> >> I think that I have tested including this commit.  The first thing I did
> >> was to test with latest DaveM net-2.6 git tree.
> > 
> > Let me see if I can reproduce it ...
> 
> Actually - one question: you're saying you're using different MAC
> addresses on the VLAN devices, so I guess thats why you're expecting
> the underlying device to still be in promiscous mode after you set
> eth1.1025 down. For devices that support multiple unicast addresses
> in hardware, we don't put the device in promiscous mode anymore.
> So the question is: is something actually not working, or did you
> just notice that the real device is no longer in promiscous mode?

It stopped working!  In the test setup I do have a machine connected to
eth1.1013, where I have a ping running, that stop working...

I use the tg3 driver for both netcards. Don't know if it supports it?

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
  Jesper Brouer
  ComX Networks A/S
  Linux Network developer
  Cand. Scient Datalog / MSc.
  Author of http://adsl-optimizer.dk
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-26 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-26 14:00 Bisect'ed BUG in VLAN promisc mode (6c78dcbd47) Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2008-09-26 16:14 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-09-26 19:22   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2008-09-26 19:24     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-09-26 19:28       ` Patrick McHardy
2008-09-26 19:34         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2008-09-26 19:41           ` Patrick McHardy
2008-09-26 20:10             ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-02 16:38             ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2008-10-06 11:03               ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-07 11:03                 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2008-10-07 11:10                   ` Patrick McHardy

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