From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert Chin Subject: Re: Problems with dropped packets on bonded interface for 3.x kernels Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:08:12 -0600 Message-ID: <20111121080811.GB7596@china> References: <20111121051603.GB3702@china> <1321857123.17419.2.camel@edumazet-laptop> <20111121074453.GA7596@china> <1321862549.17419.12.camel@edumazet-laptop> Reply-To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail1.thewrittenword.com ([69.67.212.77]:63397 "EHLO mail1.thewrittenword.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754414Ab1KUIIN (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:08:13 -0500 Received: from mail1.il.thewrittenword.com (emma-internal-gw.il.thewrittenword.com [192.168.13.25]) by mail1.thewrittenword.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92D95C17 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:43:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from china.thewrittenword.com (danger-gw.il.thewrittenword.com [10.191.57.254]) by mail1.il.thewrittenword.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E65866E1 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:08:12 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1321862549.17419.12.camel@edumazet-laptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 09:02:29AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Le lundi 21 novembre 2011 =E0 01:44 -0600, Albert Chin a =E9crit : >=20 > > So only "unknown" protocols are dropped? I just ran tcpdump for 96 > > packets and inspected the output. The only packets received are LAC= P, > > ARP, STP (Spanning Tree Protocol), DTP (Dynamic Trunking Protocol). > > How are these "unknown"? >=20 > No protocol handler is setup to analyze some them in your box. >=20 > (ARP is handled of course) >=20 > Like if you receive IPv6 packets while IPv6 was not compiled/loaded i= nto > your kernel. >=20 > 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. --=20 albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)