From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Problem with igb and vlans in 2.6.38-rc4
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:57:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5426ED.7000801@candelatech.com> (raw)
We have a user-space app that uses packet-sockets to grab and send
Ethernet frames (basically a user-space bridge).
This has stopped working for VLANs unless we set the physical
port MTU to be vlan-MTU + 4 (ie, 1504 for standard MTU size vlan frames).
I think this started post 2.6.34 kernel..but not exactly sure at this
time.
The test setup is essentially:
client -- vlan 5 -- [ eth4 {software-bridge} eth3 ] -- vlan 5 -- server
The software bridge machine has no VLANs enabled..it is supposed to just
read Ethernet frames from one port and xmit out the other.
The bridge machine sees rx-length errors, and if only one port is
set to 1504, the other shows xmit errors (since it doesn't like sending
a frame 4 bytes larger than MTU probably).
This used to work, and I'm hoping this change wasn't done on purpose.
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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2011-02-10 17:57 Ben Greear [this message]
2011-02-10 20:51 ` Problem with igb and vlans in 2.6.38-rc4 Ben Greear
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