Bug 4482
| Summary: | natsemi: incorrect initialization of IPv6 Neighbor-discovery multicast | ||
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| Product: | Drivers | Reporter: | Simon Vallet (svallet) |
| Component: | Network | Assignee: | Herbert Xu (herbert) |
| Status: | RESOLVED CODE_FIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Kernel Version: | 2.6.11.7 | Subsystem: | |
| Regression: | --- | Bisected commit-id: | |
| Attachments: | Fix RX hash table setting | ||
Created attachment 4932 [details]
Fix RX hash table setting
Please try this patch and let me know whether it fixes the problem.
It does :-) Thanks. |
Distribution: Debian Sarge (testing) Hardware Environment: Arch is PowerPC/BeigeG3 Problematic NIC has a DP83815 chipset (Netgear FA311) Software Environment: iproute2/ifconfig Problem Description: "ifconfig eth0 up" *apparently* allows multicast on the device : # ifconfig eth0 ... UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST ... # ip maddr show ... 1: eth0 link 33:33:ff:be:0a:ed link 33:33:00:00:00:01 ... inet6 ff02::1:ffbe:aed inet6 ff02::1 However, the NIC does *not* reply to neighbor-sollicitation multicasts, neither on 33:33:00:00:00:01 (ping6 ff02::1) or on the sollicited-node multicast. It *is* however responding *after* being brought in promiscuous mode (using tcpdump) or an "ifconfig eth0 multicast" has been issued. Shuting down and up brings the problem back again Steps to reproduce: # ifconfig eth0 down # ifconfig eth0 up