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List:       e1000-devel
Subject:    Re: [E1000-devel] bridge not functional with 10Gbe Intel 82599EB
From:       Jean-François Landry <jflandry () ccs ! usherbrooke ! ca>
Date:       2010-05-28 21:55:27
Message-ID: 20100528215527.GE16882 () jf ! ccs ! usherbrooke ! ca
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On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 02:41:23PM -0700, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Jean-François Landry
> <jflandry@ccs.usherbrooke.ca> wrote:
> > We are using CentOS 5.5 and everything does seem to work as expected on
> > the 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 kernel, but nothing goes through on 2.6.32 to
> > 2.6.34. I also tried a basic Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server amd64 install just
> > to see if there was anything wrong with the older CentOS userland and
> > got the same result, which is no passed traffic.
> Could it be a promiscuous mode problem?  It sounds like the interface
> isn't getting into promisc mode or not forwarding broadcasts correctly
> (receiving them).
> 
> can you try manually putting both interfaces in the bridge into
> promisc mode with
> ifconfig ethX promisc

No apparent effect, at least with mainline 2.6.34. I'm off for the
weekend, I'll run some more tests monday morning.

> We'll also try to reproduce this here.

Thanks.

  JF

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