Re: packets trickling out of STP-blocked ports

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>]

Hi,

On 30/12/2021 15:07:40-0800, Colin Foster wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm not sure who all to include in this email, but I'm starting with
> this list to start.
> 
> Probably obvious to those in this email list, I'm testing a VSC7512 dev
> board controlled via SPI. The patches are still out-of-tree, but I
> figured I'll report these findings, since they seem real.
> 
> My setup is port 0 of the 7512 is tied to a Beaglebone Black. Port 1 is
> tied to my development PC. Ports 2 and 3 are tied together to test STP.
> 
> I run the commands:
> 
> ip link set eth0 up
> ip link set swp[1-3] up
> ip link add name br0 type bridge stp_state 1
> ip link set dev swp[1-3] master br0
> ip addr add 10.100.3.1/16 dev br0
> ip link set dev br0 up
> 
> After running this, the STP blocks swp3, and swp1/2 are forwarding.
> 
> Periodically I see messages saying that swp2 is receiving packets with
> own address as source address.
> 
> I can confirm that via ethtool that TX packets are increasing on swp3. I
> believe I captured the event via tshark. A 4 minute capture showed three
> non-STP packets on swp2. All three of these packets are ICMPv6 Router
> Solicitation packets. 
> 
> I would expect no packets at all to egress swp3. Is this an issue that
> is unique to me and my in-development configuration? Or is this an issue
> with all Ocelot / Felix devices?
> 
> If this is an Ocelot thing, I can try to come up with a different test 
> setup to capture more data... printing the packet when it is received,
> capturing the traffic externally, capturing eth0 traffic to see if it is
> coming from the kernel or being hardware-forwarded...
> 
> (side note - if there's a place where a parser for Ocelot NPI traffic is
> hidden, that might eventually save me a lot of debugging in Lua)
> 
> 
> An idea of how frequently this happens - my system has been currently up
> for 3700 seconds. Eight "own address as source address" events have
> happened at 66, 96, 156, 279, 509, 996, 1897, and 3699 seconds. 
> 

This is something I solved back in 2017. I can exactly remember how, you
can try:

sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.swp3.autoconf=0


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