Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:37:05 -0400 | From | Brian Haley <> | Subject | Re: BUG: IPv6 stops working after a while, needs ip ne del command to reset |
| |
On 09/14/2010 03:56 PM, Thomas Habets wrote: > > Sorry for the late reply. I've been swamped. > > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Brian Haley wrote: >> So are you running with this set to "Shared Network Port" mode? I'm >> guessing you are. > > Yes, there's no dedicated ILO port. > >> There was another report on netdev back in 11/2008 on this exact >> hardware, >> with the same problem. > > I can't seem to find it. Do you happen to have the subject line or > something?
It was actually a month earlier in 2008, I mis-typed, here's the link:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122280545121251&w=2
>> I dug-up my notes on the problem, and from what I can tell, the receive >> multicast filters on the NIC were getting removed, causing both incoming >> IPv6 and IPv4 multicast packets to get dropped. > > Sounds about right. From what I understand the relevant registers were > still the same for me when it wasn't working though (if that indeed is > how the filter is implemented).
One of the outcomes of that investigation was to update the firmware and/or iLO, I'm not sure if either fixed the problem.
-Brian
| |