From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: Multicast routing stops functioning after 4G multicast packets recived. Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 07:15:37 -0800 Message-ID: <52B30D99.5090504@candelatech.com> References: <20131219144816.33310@gmx.com> <20131219150923.GB24118@order.stressinduktion.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bob Falken , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:50374 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753159Ab3LSPQN (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:16:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20131219150923.GB24118@order.stressinduktion.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com