Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 22 Sep 2000 20:18:32 -0500 | From | "Michael R. Jinks" <> | Subject | Oops while using bonded ethernet |
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I'm trying to bond all four interfaces of a D-Link DFE-570TX ethernet card. Not sure who maintains the bonding module, so writing directly to the main list. Tips on better people to bother are welcome.
Note on my kernel version: I'm using version 2.2.16, because that's the latest version supported by the TurboCluter product from Pacific HiTech. I was unable to find any reference to my problem in the archives, so assuming 2.2.17 doesn't address the issue, and I strongly doubt that TurboCluster will work with a 2.4 kernel.
Anyhow.
With my system in single user mode, I can bring up the bonded interface with no problems. I can then bring up sshd and access the system just fine over the bonded interface.
If I try to take the machine into multi-user mode, or even if I try to take networking down and then back up again, I start to get segfault messages. By running "strace ifconfig" I was able to see that once things go awry, any attempt to read from /proc/net/dev results in a segfault.
The attached tarball (oopstrace.tar.gz) contains the following files:
-- ksyms: output from 'cat /proc/ksyms' -- mj.config: copy of my /usr/src/linux/.config -- netstart-oops.log: section from my /var/log/messages recorded while trying to bring networking up for the second time during current runtime. First up-down cycle generally completes without error. -- ksymoops.netstart-oops.out: output from feeding netstart-oops.log to the ksymoops program. -- netdown-oops.log: section from /var/log/messages produced when I tried to take networking back down (immediately after producing netstart-oops.log). -- ksymoops.netdown-oops.out: output from feeding netdown-oops.log to ksymoops.
All appears to work just fine when I use the DFE-570TX unbonded, so I don't think this is a problem with the NIC driver iteslf.
I'm not used to kernel hacking, so any other information that I can provide, please ask.
Thanks, -m
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