Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: > Forwarding this to netdev since the bug is still present in Linux 3.7.1. > For those joining us, this thread is archive at > <http://bugs.debian.org/697357>.
Please forgive me for eliding the previous discussion; I think I hit the same or a very similar problem in the same setup, but without the KVM or guest parts (but I could reproduce this in a pretty bare KVM guest with a virtio network device). My interface configuration (hopefully comprehensible without familiarity with Debian): # this is a bare bond interface named after the native VLAN (no .1q!) auto vlan894 iface vlan894 inet manual bond_mode active-backup bond_slaves eth0 bond_miimon 100 bond_updelay 4000 # this bridge has a static IPv4 address and contains the above bond auto br894 iface br894 inet static bridge_ports vlan894 bridge_stp off bridge_fd 0 address x.y.z.w netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway x.y.z.g Actually, I want ARP monitoring for the bond, but if I leave out either the miimon *or* the updelay configuration, the machine stops responding to solicited-node multicast packages (neighbor solicitations) thus becoming unreachable via its autoconfigured global IPv6 address. That is, until I put eth0 into promiscuous mode! And really, with the above (working) config dmesg says: bonding: Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011) bonding: vlan894 is being created... bonding: vlan894: Setting MII monitoring interval to 100. bonding: vlan894: Setting up delay to 4000. bonding: vlan894: setting mode to active-backup (1). bonding: vlan894: Adding slave eth0. bonding: vlan894: enslaving eth0 as a backup interface with an up link. Bridge firewalling registered device vlan894 entered promiscuous mode IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): vlan894: link is not ready bonding: vlan894: link status definitely up for interface eth0, 4294967295 Mbps full duplex. bonding: vlan894: making interface eth0 the new active one. device eth0 entered promiscuous mode bonding: vlan894: first active interface up! IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): vlan894: link becomes ready br894: port 1(vlan894) entered forwarding state br894: port 1(vlan894) entered forwarding state (although ip link does not list any promiscuous interfaces). On the other hand, if I don't configure eg. bond_updelay: bonding: Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011) bonding: vlan894 is being created... bonding: vlan894: Setting MII monitoring interval to 100. bonding: vlan894: setting mode to active-backup (1). bonding: vlan894: Adding slave eth0. bonding: vlan894: making interface eth0 the new active one. bonding: vlan894: first active interface up! bonding: vlan894: enslaving eth0 as an active interface with an up link. Bridge firewalling registered device vlan894 entered promiscuous mode br894: port 1(vlan894) entered forwarding state br894: port 1(vlan894) entered forwarding state ie. promiscuous mode isn't propageted to eth0 and the global IPv6 address of the machine does not respond to ping6 until tcpdump -i eth0 or ip link set eth0 promisc on. Meanwhile in all cases: # ip maddr show dev br894 5: br894 link 33:33:00:00:00:01 link 01:00:5e:00:00:01 link 33:33:ff:02:00:07 inet 224.0.0.1 inet6 ff02::1:ff02:7 users 2 inet6 ff02::1 This happens with the current 3.7.3-1~experimental.1 amd64 kernel under Debian wheezy (besides the current 3.2 wheezy kernel). -- Thanks for your time, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org