So I found out that this is occurring presumably because iproute2 does "not have large enough buffers to accommodate the extra information returned by the kernel with large numbers of SR-IOV virtual functions."
These are the commits that contain the patches: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=commit;h=a4b64fbe482c7766f7925f03067fc637716bfa3f http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=commit;h=115c9b81928360d769a76c632bae62d15206a94a -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/960497 Title: interfaces are unavailable to iproute2 when max_vfs option is passed to the ixgbe module To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iproute/+bug/960497/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
