From: Heiko Z. <he...@zu...> - 2004-11-18 02:30:46
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Heiko Zuerker wrote: >>Roland Pabel wrote: >> >> >>>On Tuesday 16 November 2004 22:31, Roland Pabel wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>On Tuesday 16 November 2004 08:26, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Hi Roland, >>>>> >>>>> >>>[..] >>> >>> >>> >>>>that depends. If the problem persists with any (real) nic, we should let >>>>the bridging people know about it. If they don't react, linux-kernel is >>>>the >>>>next step. Maybe it's only an 8139too related problem, then we should >>>>write >>>>to the module maintainer (Jeff Garzik). >>>>Maybe it's only us mere mortals doing bad stuff and we should not bother >>>>the kernel gods ;-) I'll just have a shower and then fire up vmware >>>> >>>> >>>After countless virtual reboots I'd say this is a bridge problem. It's >>>definitely not related to 8139too since that module is not loaded inside >>>vmware. >>>The error always happens when 'brctl delbr br0' is called. It doesn't >>>matter >>>if the enslaved interface was ever up (i.e. tap0 was enslaved although >>>openvpn was never started) or not. It does not help to shut down any >>>interface with ifconfig or deleting the interfaces from the bridge. >>>My guess is that the bridge code has a memory leak or does not decrement >>>a >>>counter upon deinitialization. I found a dozen error reports for this >>>one on >>>google. The reply from the bridge developers was always something like >>>"we >>>already fixed this, upgrade". >>>Since my test was done using a few months old 1.3-cvs build, I'll give >>>it a >>>try. I'll make a fresh build tomorrow and see if the error persists >>>cu >>>Roland >>> >>> >>We have just moved our bridging firewall from 1.0.6 to 1.2 and we have >>same problem with 3c59x card >> >> > >It looks like we found the issue, the ebtables userspace utilities are >outdated. > > OOOOPS ;-) I shouldn't look into problems like this in the morning.... I was wrong, we actually use all the current patches and userspace utilities. So we're back on square 1. Sorry for the screwup! -- Regards Heiko Zuerker http://www.devil-linux.org |