From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: shemminger@osdl.org
Cc: davem@redhat.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
bridge@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] Re: Problem in changed VLAN code can cause systems to hang.
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 09:00:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41407E10.7040000@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4405.131.188.28.69.1094744038.squirrel@www.osdl.org>
shemminger@osdl.org wrote:
>>On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 15:16:33 +0200
>>Mark Ruijter <bridge@siennax.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I noticed that the VLAN code of kernels >=2.6.8 contain the patch needed
>>>to mirror link state information from the real device to the vlan
>>>device.
>>>
>>>This however causes the system to hang in combination with net-snmpd.
>>>The last thing that I see is an ioctl(0x8947...
>>
>>What kind of ethernet devices do you have making use of VLAN?
>
>
> I suspect the underlying device doesn't support mii interface.
> If that is true, then the code is doing the right thing (and net-snmp)
> is being too dependant on MII.
Why would it cause a hang though? I would expect net-snmp to immediately
fail the IOCTL and continue on it's merry way.
Ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-09 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-09 13:16 [Bridge] Problem in changed VLAN code can cause systems to hang Mark Ruijter
2004-09-09 15:21 ` [Bridge] " David S. Miller
2004-09-09 15:33 ` shemminger
2004-09-09 15:51 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-10 11:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-09-10 12:38 ` Tommy Christensen
2004-09-10 13:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-09-10 13:02 ` Mark Ruijter
2004-09-09 15:54 ` Mark Ruijter
2004-09-09 16:00 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2004-09-09 15:34 ` Mark Ruijter
2004-09-10 12:43 ` [Bridge] " Tommy Christensen
2004-09-10 13:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-09-10 13:29 ` Mark Ruijter
2004-09-10 23:01 ` David S. Miller
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