Bug#549018: linux-image-2.6-686: Network unresponsive from certain hosts

2009-09-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 14:05 +0100, Paul Robins wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6-686
> Severity: important
> 
> I apologise that I have little information to go on with this bug, I
> am continuing to attempt to debug it but in a mixed network
> environment it is quite tricky.

You should report kernel bugs against linux-image-$(uname -r) and not
against linux-image-2.6-686.  That will automatically include some
useful system information.

> This bug occured while I was testing link aggregation/link bonding in
> debian. I have 3 ethernet interfaces bound to bond0, their
> manufacturer and driver information is below:
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
> 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
> 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
> 
> I am also using iperf on two computers connected to the same switch in
> order to attempt to push > 100mbit of traffic across the machine, to
> check link aggregation / the hash method.
> 
> All machines are on 192.168.101.0/24, but the two test machines have
> static routes to reach each other through the machine with the bonded
> links. It also has icmp redirects disabled to force it to pass the
> packets through.
> 
> Whenever I initiate a TCP iperf connection, moments later the server
> side of the connection loses all contact with the link aggregated
> machine, it will not respond to ping or any other type of traffic
> 
> There are no other relevant configuration parameters, the link
> aggregation box can actually send traffic out, I can see pings hitting
> the test server and being returned, but they never appear on the link
> aggregated machine. I can also see no issue with the routing table
> (network + gateway, nothing special) nor the arp table, nor anything
> else at all.

Check the MAC stats in /proc/net/dev.  Are the ping responses added to
any of the Receive counters there?

> Please let me know if I have made some trivial error, but I believe
> this to be a genuine bug.

Please send the output of the following commands after this problem
occurs:
dmesg
ip addr show
ip link show
grep -r . /sys/class/net/bond*

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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Bug#549018: linux-image-2.6-686: Network unresponsive from certain hosts

2009-09-30 Thread Paul Robins
Package: linux-image-2.6-686
Severity: important

I apologise that I have little information to go on with this bug, I am 
continuing to attempt to debug it but in a mixed network environment it is 
quite tricky.

This bug occured while I was testing link aggregation/link bonding in debian. I 
have 3 ethernet interfaces bound to bond0, their manufacturer and driver 
information is below:
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)

I am also using iperf on two computers connected to the same switch in order to 
attempt to push > 100mbit of traffic across the machine, to check link 
aggregation / the hash method.

All machines are on 192.168.101.0/24, but the two test machines have static 
routes to reach each other through the machine with the bonded links. It also 
has icmp redirects disabled to force it to pass the packets through.

Whenever I initiate a TCP iperf connection, moments later the server side of 
the connection loses all contact with the link aggregated machine, it will not 
respond to ping or any other type of traffic

There are no other relevant configuration parameters, the link aggregation box 
can actually send traffic out, I can see pings hitting the test server and 
being returned, but they never appear on the link aggregated machine. I can 
also see no issue with the routing table (network + gateway, nothing special) 
nor the arp table, nor anything else at all.

Please let me know if I have made some trivial error, but I believe this to be 
a genuine bug.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash



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