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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech•com>
To: Bob Falken <NetFestivalHaveFun@gmx•com>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Multicast routing stops functioning after 4G multicast packets recived.
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 07:15:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52B30D99.5090504@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131219150923.GB24118@order.stressinduktion.org>

On 12/19/2013 07:09 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 03:48:16PM +0100, Bob Falken wrote:
>> Hello, I have an issue after kernel 2.6.37 and above.
>> If i roll back to kernel 2.6.36.4 everything is fine.
>> if recive more than 4294967295 multicast packets, the kernel does not register the multicast packets. and multicast routing does not functioning.
>> (Tested bouth FIB_HASH and FIB_TRIE)
>> Tested with xorp and pimd.
>> I have abount 24 multicast groups, and it takes me about 17hours to reproduce the issue after a reboot.
>> Reboot is reqired to fix the issue. (Tested to stop/start pimd/xorp, reload network module for the network interface "e1000e",
>> Used birdge adapter and remove bridge adapter and readd bridge adapter to clear counters. none of thouse solves the issue.)
>
> Please test this with a recent kernel. 2.6.37 is really old and you normally
> won't get good support here with such old kernels.

Note that he did test up to 3.11.9 and it still showed failures.

Thanks,
Ben

>
> Greetings,
>
>    Hannes
>
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech•com>
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-19 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-19 14:48 Multicast routing stops functioning after 4G multicast packets recived Bob Falken
2013-12-19 15:09 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-12-19 15:15   ` Ben Greear [this message]
2013-12-19 15:48     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-04 19:55 ` Julian Anastasov
2014-01-04 23:38   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-05  8:56     ` Julian Anastasov
2014-01-05 10:41       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-05 19:12         ` Eric Dumazet
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-12-19 16:28 Bob Falken
2013-12-19 17:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-12-19 17:32   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-12-22  3:10   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-12-21 22:35 Bob Falken
2014-01-03  7:37 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-04 18:53 Bob Falken
2014-01-07 17:01 Bob Falken
2014-01-07 17:43 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-07 20:11   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-07 20:20     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-07 20:26     ` Eric Dumazet
2014-01-07 20:29       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-09 20:14 Bob Falken
2014-01-10  6:36 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-10  7:01   ` Eric Dumazet
2014-01-10  7:10     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-10  7:32       ` Eric Dumazet
2014-01-10  7:43         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-10  7:50           ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-12  7:42             ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-13  0:56               ` Eric Dumazet
2014-01-12  0:25 Bob Falken

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