On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 04:31:36PM -0500, Andy Gospodarek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:55:42PM +0100, Holger Eitzenberger wrote: > > Hi Steven, > > > > I have problems using sky2 v1.10 with with bonding driver (802.3ad), > > on 'Marvell 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller'. I have attached > > the full lspci output. > > > > My test was to setup a bond of two physical links (both links same > > hardware) and ping 192.168.11.10, which is the address of the switch > > itself. > > > > I have tested v1.10 with kernel 2.6.19 and 2.6.16.36 (own backport), > > which despite the bonding problem runs fine. Both, kernel 2.6.19 and > > 2.6.16.36 show the same behaviour. The 802.3ad aware switch is a Dell > > PowerConnect 5324. VLAN is not configured on all switch ports. Another > > test on a host running kernel 2.6.18.2 with two e1000's bonded runs > > fine. Using sk98lin (v8.41 & v10.0.4) worked also. > > > I get the impression that sky2 has never worked for you. Is that > correct? There was an skge problem I noticed a while ago where on reset > the multicast membership list was cleared. > > commit 758140900a82e3ed3bb2be1d4705dd352fe44825 > Author: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri Dec 1 11:41:08 2006 -0800 > > [PATCH] skge: don't clear MC state on link down > > I would rather fix Andy's problem by not clearing > multicast information on link down. > > Also, add code to restore multicast state after ethtool phy reset. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > A patch Having this list cleared could stop you from receiving 802.3ad > PDUs. I'll check skge and see if it has the same problem (I'm betting > on it). > >
After a quick peek this doesn't look like it's the issue. The skge problem was apparent because when you pulled the link the multicast memberships disappeared.... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
