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SubjectRe: BUG: IPv6 stops working after a while, needs ip ne del command to reset
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:52:27AM -0700, Thomas Habets wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Matt Carlson wrote:
> > Thanks. I put the question out to the firmware developer. While we
> > wait, can you keep Eric's patch in place and give me the results along
> > with the output of 'ethtool -d eth0 | grep 0x047' after the problem
> > happens?
>
> Sure.
>
> I think the problem occurs shortly after booting, or is triggered by it
> Linux getting a neighbor table entry for the router. The reason it took a
> while for everything to actually stop working is that the router was
> caching and presumably updating its neighbors cache when it saw traffic.
>
> That is, maybe it only works if the router sets up its neigbor table
> first, and not otherwise.
>
> The problem is there now. Last output in the kernel log about this is:
>
> $ dmesg | egrep 'eth0|^add mc|^filters='
> [...]
> add mc_addr(ha->addr=33:33:00:00:00:01)
> add mc_addr(ha->addr=01:00:5e:00:00:01)
> add mc_addr(ha->addr=33:33:ff:5c:00:02)
> add mc_addr(ha->addr=33:33:ff:a3:44:24)
> filters=80020001 00000000 00000000 40000000
>
> $ sudo ethtool -d eth0 | grep 0x047
> 0x0470 0x80020001
> 0x0474 0x00000000
> 0x0478 0x00000000
> 0x047c 0x40000000
>
> > Eric's patch shows the hash registers at the time they are programmed.
> > I'm interested to see if the values change (by firmware) after the
> > failure.
>
> Look the same.
>
> But a strange thing is that if I delete the ipv6 neighbor on the Linux
> box (ip ne del 2a00:800:752:1::5c:1 dev eth0) it suddenly answers a ND
> solicitation. I tried it just now and it "wakes it up".
>
> Nothing was written to the kernel log when I ran this command, and the
> ethtools -d output is the same afterwards as it was before. So unless
> there's another code path that changes the registers when I do "ip ne
> del" it may still be something else.

Do you have access to any diagnostic software that might have come with
your machine?



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