From: Albert Chin <linux-netdev@mlists.thewrittenword.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems with dropped packets on bonded interface for 3.x kernels
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:08:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111121080811.GB7596@china> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321862549.17419.12.camel@edumazet-laptop>
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 09:02:29AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le lundi 21 novembre 2011 à 01:44 -0600, Albert Chin a écrit :
>
> > So only "unknown" protocols are dropped? I just ran tcpdump for 96
> > packets and inspected the output. The only packets received are LACP,
> > ARP, STP (Spanning Tree Protocol), DTP (Dynamic Trunking Protocol).
> > How are these "unknown"?
>
> No protocol handler is setup to analyze some them in your box.
>
> (ARP is handled of course)
>
> Like if you receive IPv6 packets while IPv6 was not compiled/loaded into
> your kernel.
>
> Nothing you have to worry about. We receive plenty of unknown packets
> these days...
Ok. If the above is the case though, I should see dropped packets on
all of my interfaces. But, I only see it on the bonded interface.
Kinda odd.
Thanks.
--
albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-21 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-21 5:16 Problems with dropped packets on bonded interface for 3.x kernels Albert Chin
2011-11-21 6:32 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-11-21 7:44 ` Albert Chin
2011-11-21 8:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-11-21 8:08 ` Albert Chin [this message]
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