From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Haley Subject: Re: BUG: IPv6 stops working after a while, needs ip ne del command to reset Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:37:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4C910441.20107@hp.com> References: <1282024802.2487.687.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1282050920.2448.47.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1282055659.2448.58.camel@edumazet-laptop> <20100817171115.GA4134@mcarlson.broadcom.com> <20100817183112.GA4351@mcarlson.broadcom.com> <20100818012318.GA4630@mcarlson.broadcom.com> <4C7E65DA.5020106@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matt Carlson , Eric Dumazet , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , netdev , Michael Chan To: Thomas Habets Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 09/14/2010 03:56 PM, Thomas Habets wrote: > > Sorry for the late reply. I've been swamped. > > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Brian Haley wrote: >> So are you running with this set to "Shared Network Port" mode? I'm >> guessing you are. > > Yes, there's no dedicated ILO port. > >> There was another report on netdev back in 11/2008 on this exact >> hardware, >> with the same problem. > > I can't seem to find it. Do you happen to have the subject line or > something? It was actually a month earlier in 2008, I mis-typed, here's the link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122280545121251&w=2 >> I dug-up my notes on the problem, and from what I can tell, the receive >> multicast filters on the NIC were getting removed, causing both incoming >> IPv6 and IPv4 multicast packets to get dropped. > > Sounds about right. From what I understand the relevant registers were > still the same for me when it wasn't working though (if that indeed is > how the filter is implemented). One of the outcomes of that investigation was to update the firmware and/or iLO, I'm not sure if either fixed the problem. -Brian