From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3_Margula?= Subject: Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3746] New: Bridge causes machine lockups Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 23:21:23 +0100 Message-ID: <41A114E3.5070705@uznam.net.pl> References: <20041115122046.1413527e.akpm@osdl.org> <20041115124843.4c3dd72f.akpm@osdl.org> <419C8724.20006@uznam.net.pl> <200411211727.43320.bdschuym@pandora.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Andrew Morton , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Bart De Schuymer In-Reply-To: <200411211727.43320.bdschuym@pandora.be> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Bart De Schuymer napisa=B3(a): ># cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.9/ ># patch -p1 < patch >When your system hangs again, the message "EBTABLES: BEFORE WRITE LOCK" >should be in your syslog, and check that it is not followed by "EBTABLES= :=20 >AFTER WRITE LOCK". > > =20 > I have just applied that patch. Tomorrow I will reboot a new kernel. So=20 in about no more than two days, I should get some results. >Is the bridge still forwarding packets while it hangs? > > =20 > No. Box is completly frozen. >Perhaps try to link all network traffic to one cpu before doing your ebt= ables=20 >updates... > =20 > Could you give me more details about that? Should it be done before=20 updating ebtables, and after that reverting? And most important - how? :). --=20 Micha=B3 Margula, alchemyx@uznam.net.pl, http://alchemyx.uznam.net.pl/ "W =BFyciu pi=EAkne s=B1 tylko chwile" [Ryszard Riedel]