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has caused the Debian Bug report #763606,
regarding linux-image-3.16-2-powerpc: Bridge configuration stopped working with
kernel 3.16 (was working with previous kernel 3.14)
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Source: linux-image-3.16-2-powerpc
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
I'm running Debian sid on PowerPC (Mac Mini) with a Sun GEM ethernet adapter.
The system is running a bridge configuration (brctl and friends) as an OpenVPN
server.
Last monday I upgraded to version 3.16 of the kernel (I was at 3.14). After a
reboot, everything seemed fine, no error messages, no strangeness.
That same day I connected to the OpenVPN service on the box and noticed that
stuff didn't work as it did before the upgrade; specifically, I could only
reach the server itself and other connected clients (read: everything on the
tap0 part of the bridge) and nothing on the network (read: everything behing
the eth0 part of the bridge).
Initially I thought it might be a setup bug. Last two days I've rechecked
everything, routing rules, firewalling stuff, etc; I verified the bridge worked
within the host, but nothing traversed to/from the eth0 part of the bridge.
Today, I downgraded the kernel to 3.2.60 (package from stable) as the previous
3.14 kernel was not avalable anymore (and of course, I deinstalled it..). After
installation of the 3.2.60 kernel, my bridge setup works normally again.
I'm pretty sure this is a bug in either the kernel bridge (tun) or ethernet
(sungem) driver, or otherwise a bug in openvpn related to bridging on 3.16.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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--- Begin Message ---
This bug was filed for a very old kernel. If you can reproduce it with
- the current version in unstable/testing
- the latest kernel from buster.backports
please reopen the bug, see https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control
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