Re: [Bridge] Re: tg3 bridge problems

[Paul Schulz <pschulz@foursticks.com>]

Greetings,

This may be the problem that I have seen (and reported) previously...
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/archive/2004-02/msg00442.html

One suggestion.. do a packet dump on an outgoing bridge port, and a 
dump from a transmitting machine connected to the bridge. Compare the
MD5 checksums.

Regards,
Paul

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 20:49 +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 02:41:34PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> > Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> > >On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:40:57PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> > >
> > >>Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:04:55AM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>Strange.  My concern was that the tg3 interface has its hardware reset 
> > >>>>whenever its set to be up, and part of that is a resetting of its 
> > >>>>receive mode.  If for some reason IFF_PROMISC was cleared after you set 
> > >>>>it using brctl, the interface might be taken out of promisc mode.  Do 
> > >>>>you have any iptables rules running that might drop bpdus?

> > >And it is probably not a driver-only issue. I've got older machines with
> > >tg3 running fine with bridge (with an older tg3 driver), and eth1 on the
> > >same machine also runs fine. On another machine I tested today, an IBM
> > >x326, the same thing happens - eth0 broken, eth1 fine. Would access to one
> > >of these machines help? :)
> > >
> > >Greg
> > I've got a tg3 card here.  I'll try re-create it as soon as I have time. 
> 
> Sounds great, but I expect it will not occur with a random tg3 card,
> explained above...