From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752395Ab1AQQAu (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:00:50 -0500 Received: from mail.solarflare.com ([216.237.3.220]:46575 "EHLO exchange.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750745Ab1AQQAs (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:00:48 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.37 regression: adding main interface to a bridge breaks vlan interface RX From: Ben Hutchings To: Simon Arlott Cc: netdev , Linux Kernel Mailing List , jesse@nicira.com, Herbert Xu In-Reply-To: <4D32FC1C.3010905@simon.arlott.org.uk> References: <4D32FC1C.3010905@simon.arlott.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Solarflare Communications Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:00:44 +0000 Message-ID: <1295280044.6264.5.camel@bwh-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 (2.32.1-1.fc14) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Jan 2011 16:00:47.0232 (UTC) FILETIME=[B43E4800:01CBB65F] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-8.0.0.1181-6.500.1024-17898.005 X-TM-AS-Result: No--4.399300-0.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: Yes X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 14:09 +0000, Simon Arlott wrote: > [ 1.666706] forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x5043 @ 16, addr 00:e0:81:4d:2b:ec > [ 1.666767] forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: highdma csum vlan pwrctl mgmt gbit lnktim msi desc-v3 > > I have eth0 and eth0.3840 which works until I add eth0 to a bridge. > While eth0 is in a bridge (the bridge device is up), eth0.3840 is unable > to receive packets. Using tcpdump on eth0 shows the packets being > received with a VLAN tag but they don't appear on eth0.3840. They appear > with the VLAN tag on the bridge interface. [...] This means the behaviour is now consistent, whether or not hardware VLAN tag stripping is enabled. (I previously pointed out the inconsistent behaviour in .) I would consider this an improvement. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.