From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
To: Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se>
Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: BUG: IPv6 stops working after a while, needs ip ne del command to reset
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:37:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C910441.20107@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1009142134440.25664@red.crap.retrofitta.se>
On 09/14/2010 03:56 PM, Thomas Habets wrote:
>
> Sorry for the late reply. I've been swamped.
>
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Brian Haley wrote:
>> So are you running with this set to "Shared Network Port" mode? I'm
>> guessing you are.
>
> Yes, there's no dedicated ILO port.
>
>> There was another report on netdev back in 11/2008 on this exact
>> hardware,
>> with the same problem.
>
> I can't seem to find it. Do you happen to have the subject line or
> something?
It was actually a month earlier in 2008, I mis-typed, here's the link:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122280545121251&w=2
>> I dug-up my notes on the problem, and from what I can tell, the receive
>> multicast filters on the NIC were getting removed, causing both incoming
>> IPv6 and IPv4 multicast packets to get dropped.
>
> Sounds about right. From what I understand the relevant registers were
> still the same for me when it wasn't working though (if that indeed is
> how the filter is implemented).
One of the outcomes of that investigation was to update the firmware
and/or iLO, I'm not sure if either fixed the problem.
-Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-15 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-13 17:55 BUG: IPv6 stops working after a while, needs ip ne del command to reset Thomas Habets
2010-08-13 21:34 ` David Miller
2010-08-16 10:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-08-16 10:59 ` Thomas Habets
2010-08-17 5:35 ` Thomas Habets
2010-08-17 6:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-08-17 11:08 ` Thomas Habets
2010-08-17 13:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-08-17 14:09 ` Thomas Habets
2010-08-17 14:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-08-17 15:58 ` Thomas Habets
2010-08-17 17:11 ` Matt Carlson
2010-08-17 17:29 ` Thomas Habets
2010-08-17 18:31 ` Matt Carlson
2010-08-17 18:52 ` Thomas Habets
2010-08-18 1:23 ` Matt Carlson
2010-08-18 7:02 ` Thomas Habets
2010-09-01 9:21 ` Thomas Habets
2010-09-01 13:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-01 14:40 ` Brian Haley
2010-09-14 19:56 ` Thomas Habets
2010-09-15 17:37 ` Brian Haley [this message]
2010-08-17 17:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-08-17 16:14 ` Thomas Habets
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2010-08-06 8:25 Thomas Habets
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