I should note that this is marked as Fix Released in debian, but from the debian bug comments it just looks like Chris asked for that bug to be closed as a configuration issue (which this is not).
This is actually only a VLAN issue with higher-than-default mtu. The bond does not have anything to do with the problem. The problem is the vlan package (required for ifupdown vlan support) installs a udev rule that triggers for each new interface; it checks the ifupdown configuration, and creates any corresponding vlan interfaces. The real interface and all its vlan interfaces then race to finish udev processing and notify upstart, which then calls ifup directly on each interface. If upstart calls ifup for the vlan before the actual interface (and the vlan has a high mtu), it will fail while being brought up. I think this can be fixed in a similar way to bug 1609367, where the problem is higher-than-default mtu on ipv6 (i.e. inet6 section); although in an easier way, since ifupdown already requires the 'vlan' package for vlan support, and that package provides an if-pre-up script already. If we edit the /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/vlan script (from the vlan package) like below (for trusty, similar patch for x and y), it will increase the raw device's mtu if needed. --- vlan.orig 2016-09-08 02:12:55.901172000 +0000 +++ vlan 2016-09-08 02:10:49.213172000 +0000 @@ -51,7 +51,14 @@ echo "$IF_VLAN_RAW_DEVICE does not exist, unable to create $IFACE" exit 1 fi - ip link set up dev $IF_VLAN_RAW_DEVICE + if [ -n "$IF_MTU" ]; then + CUR_DEV_MTU=`cat /sys/class/net/$IF_VLAN_RAW_DEVICE/mtu` + # increase the vlan raw device mtu if needed + if [ -n "$CUR_DEV_MTU" ] && [ $CUR_DEV_MTU -lt $IF_MTU ]; then + MTU_PARAM="mtu $IF_MTU" + fi + fi + ip link set up dev $IF_VLAN_RAW_DEVICE $MTU_PARAM vconfig add $IF_VLAN_RAW_DEVICE $VLANID fi -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ifupdown in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1224007 Title: mtu not always set properly on bond/vlan interface Status in ifupdown package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in vlan package in Ubuntu: New Status in ifupdown package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: * Description When configuring a network with bonding+vlan and setting the MTU, occasionally the MTU doesn't get set properly on the vlan interface. In addition if one checks /var/log/upstart/networking.log whenever there is a failure the following message is printed: SIOCSIFMTU: Numerical result out of range I've tested the latest ifupdown package (0.7.44) and the problem still exists. Multi/single CPU settings both exhibit the issue. * Versions This affects latest ifupdown and ubuntu p/q/r/s. * Test Case # Create a p/q/r/s server vm with two network interfaces # This is reproducible on real hardware as well # Install the following sudo apt-get install vlan ifenslave-2.6 bridge-utils sudo modprobe bonding 8021q # Edit the interfaces file /etc/networking/interfaces: auto bond0 iface bond0 inet manual bond-mode 802.3ad bond-miimon 100 bond-lacp-rate 1 bond-slaves eth0 eth1 post-up ifconfig bond0 mtu 9000 auto eth0 iface eth0 inet manual bond-master bond0 post-up ifconfig eth0 mtu 9000 auto eth1 iface eth1 inet manual bond-master bond0 post-up ifconfig eth1 mtu 9000 auto bond0.123 iface bond0.123 inet static address 192.168.122.68 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.122.1 post-up ifconfig bond0.123 mtu 9000 # edit rc.local (or another startup script) so we reboot until we hit the error /etc/rc.local: DEVS="eth0 eth1 bond0 bond0.123" for d in $DEVS; do mtu=$(cat /sys/class/net/$d/mtu) if [ $mtu != 9000 ]; then echo "FAIL" exit 1 fi done reboot exit 0 # Now reboot the machine, within 10m or so you should be at the login prompt # if you ifconfig | grep MTU you will see some of our interfaces did not get # the MTU properly set and the test failed. # Essentially we want to ensure that all MTU's (except lo) were set to 9000 * Workaround Change the bond0.123 post-up command to: post-up sleep 2 && ifconfig bond0.123 mtu 9000 Now when rebooting the interfaces will all be brought up with the proper MTU. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ifupdown/+bug/1224007/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp