Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: cannot set IP for ethernet | Date | Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:39:31 +0200 |
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Am Dienstag, 12. Juni 2007 schrieb Patrick McHardy: > Oliver Neukum wrote: > > with 2.6.22-rc4-git2 I am getting errors when setting IP for ethernet > > interfaces: > > > > ioctl(4, SIOCSIFADDR, 0x7fff94931600) = -1 ENOBUFS (No buffer space available) > > > > The error is independant of the interface. It happens to all interfaces. > > There's nothing in the syslog. > > > > valisk:/home/oliver # uname -a > > Linux valisk 2.6.22-rc4-git2-default #3 SMP Tue Jun 12 13:27:54 CEST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > This can happen if the initial inetdev allocation when the netdevice is > registered fails. I think it would make sense to try to allocate again > when adding addresses in that case, otherwise there is no way of > recovery other than unregistering and registering the device again.
With your patch the problem has gone away. Is there a way to especially stress the system in that regard?
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