Subject: Re: 2.6.37 vlans on bnx2 not functional, panic with tcpdump

From: "Michael Chan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 16:46:46 -0800

On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 15:52 -0800, Michael Chan wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 13:32 -0800, Iain Paton wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > vlans don't appear to be functional on my HP DL380G6 with onboard bnx2
> > adapter using vanilla 2.6.37 kernel. No tagged vlan traffic 
> > is arriving at the vlan interface.
> 
> VLANs on net-next-2.6 kernel works for me on bnx2 devices.  I'll try
> 2.6.37 next.

May be you have management firmware running on your devices that can
change the behavior.  Can you provide ethtool -i eth0 on both bnx2
devices on your system?