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From: Scott Doty <scott@sonic.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: 2.4.28(+?): Strange ARP problem
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 06:50:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050113145029.GA22622@sonic.net> (raw)

Hi,

We use Linux extensively here at Sonic.net.  Our web servers have two
NIC's -- a NIC with a public IP address, and a NIC on our SAN (with NetApps).

When we tried to upgrade to 2.4.28, we encountered a problem with NetApp
reachability, which turns out to have been a problem with ARP:  we
were seeing two ARP entries for the NetApp IP's.  One would be correct, and
one would be "incomplete".

Occasionally, a system would glom onto the incomplete entry, and NFS
connectivity would tank.  This doesn't happen with 2.4.27.

We'd like to upgrade to 2.4.29-rc2, but we have much trepidation about doing
so.  I certainly don't want to treat the list as "our own personal help
desk" (as warned about in the FAQ), but was hoping someone could shed some
light on the problem.  I think either myself or one of our guys can write a
patch to fix it, if someone would point us in the right direction.

Thank you,

 -Scott

             reply	other threads:[~2005-01-13 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-13 14:50 Scott Doty [this message]
2005-01-13 12:09 ` 2.4.28(+?): Strange ARP problem Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-13 16:18   ` Scott Doty
2005-01-13 21:01   ` Herbert Xu
2005-01-13 22:01     ` Scott Doty
2005-01-13 22:15       ` Herbert Xu

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