Re: BUG: Bisected Gianfar in bridge not forwarding packets (was:3.0-rc1 Bridge not forwarding unicast packages)

[Michael Guntsche]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Jiri Pirko <jpirko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 02:50:20AM CEST, mguntsche@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>Good evening/morning,
>>
>>> I just upgraded my router/bridge combo to 3.1-rc1 from 3.0 for
>>> testing. On a first look everything seemed to work fine, but when I
>>> tried to connect via openvpn to my internal network (tap0 being bridged
>>> with the internal network) I noticed that I was not able to access the
>>> server on my internal network. I could access the bridge (which is
>>> acting as the openvpn server as well) just fine though.
>>> To debug this I ran tcpdump on the openvpn client and started a ping to the
>>> internal network. I could see the ARP requests being answered.....
>><snip>
>>
>>After much digging and testing I found the commit that causes the
>>problem for me here.
>>
>>87c288c6e gianfar: do vlan cleanup
>>
>>Before this commit my bridge works fine. I simplified the test case
>>and just tried to access the server from a local wireless device with
>>gets also bridged via
>>a gianfar nic to the wired lan. Before commit 87c288c6e I can ping the
>>device from the internal network afterwards it stops.
>>For testing purposes I reverted this commit (plus some others to make
>>the code compile) and it started working again.
>>The hardware is a routerboard with three onboard nics two of em gianfar.
>>The gianfar nics do not support any kind of offloading,
>>
>>Offload parameters for lan_wire:
>>rx-checksumming: off
>>tx-checksumming: off
>>scatter-gather: off
>>tcp-segmentation-offload: off
>>udp-fragmentation-offload: off
>>generic-segmentation-offload: off
>>generic-receive-offload: on
>>large-receive-offload: off
>>rx-vlan-offload: off
>>tx-vlan-offload: off
>>ntuple-filters: off
>>receive-hashing: off
>>
>>The Bridge device on the other hand....
>>
>>Offload parameters for lan:
>>rx-checksumming: on
>>tx-checksumming: on
>>scatter-gather: off
>>tcp-segmentation-offload: off
>>udp-fragmentation-offload: off
>>generic-segmentation-offload: off
>>generic-receive-offload: on
>>large-receive-offload: off
>>rx-vlan-offload: off
>>tx-vlan-offload: on
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ is this gfar?
No the "Lan" nic is the bridge itself. The gfar in question is lan_wire.

/Michael
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