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From: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon•org>
To: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode•se>
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel•com>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: My e1000e GBE card is eating all port 623 pks
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:57:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F97CA9B.3060105@ens-lyon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF497D4E52.CC9EA3C0-ONC12579EB.0031DCB3-C12579EB.003213E4@transmode.se>

On 25/04/2012 11:06, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Jesse Brandeburg<jesse.brandeburg@intel•com>  wrote on 2012/04/24 23:51:28:
>> On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:31:09 +0200
>> Joakim Tjernlund<joakim.tjernlund@transmode•se>  wrote:
>>
>>> Looks like port 623 is some mgmt protocol and our e1000e boards are eating these
>>> pkgs and this trips NIS, finger and yptest hangs for a long time before timing out and
>>> moving on.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to tell the network stack not to eat port 623 pkgs or
>>> have NIS not to use port 623?
>> I think you might be looking for something like portreserve
>> (see man portreserve)
> Seen portreserve on the web(gentoo does not have it) but it seems like a workaround.
> Should not eating port 623 be something one should turn on? Now it is default on
> and I cannot find a way to turn it off.
>

It might be related to IPMI (UDP/623 iirc). Try looking in your BIOS 
and/or network firmware config at boot, there might be things to disable 
there.

Brice

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-25  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-21 13:31 My e1000e GBE card is eating all port 623 pks Joakim Tjernlund
2012-04-24 21:51 ` Jesse Brandeburg
2012-04-25  9:06   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2012-04-25  9:57     ` Brice Goglin [this message]
2012-04-25 10:13       ` Joakim Tjernlund
2012-04-25 16:40         ` Allan, Bruce W

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