On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 09:28:12PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> KVM instances on a 2.6.32 host kernel have broken IPv6 connectivity either by:
> a) Bridging and using Intel (hardware) NICs on the host *or*
> b) Routing their traffic through the host.
> due to two different, both related to GSO but otherwise unrelated bugs.
> 
> As mentioned in the patch mails to come, the bugs have been fixed by
> 8e1e8a4779cb23c1d9f51e9223795e07ec54d77a (2.6.35) and
> 0aa68271510ae2b221d4b60892103837be63afe4 (2.6.33) upstream, respectively.
> 
> The commits didn't apply cleanly to 2.6.32 but their backporting was trivial
> with no algorithmic changes.
> 
> The backported patches on top of longterm-2.6.32 have been in production with
> no problems for over two months now on a large fleet of machines.
> 
> See the Debian #630730 bug for more context; David Miller replied there too.
> http://bugs.debian.org/630730

Thanks for the patches, they are now queued up.

greg k-h

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