2.6.29 Networking Problems

2.6.29 Networking Problems

[Michael B. Trausch]

Alright, so I upgraded to 2.6.29 and had all sorts of issues with my
networking (x86-64 system, both forcedeth and 3c59x NICs).  At first I
thought my forcedeth NIC was dying or something, so I disabled it and
installed a trusty 3com.  When it started acting up also, I began to
suspect software, and some searching led me to the thread (and
eventually the patch) at:

  http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/14465/

So, I applied this patch to my local kernel, and my test (transferring
13 GiB of data over the LAN) now can be run repeatedly.  Prior to
applying the patch, I'd start the transfer and it'd go for about 20
seconds and all transfer would stop, and ping would not return errors,
just nothing.

Any chance that this patch will land in 2.6.29.1?  Or other code that
fixes the same problem?  I haven't tried it against Linus' kernel tree
yet because I probably won't run that kernel again until at least -rc2
or -rc3, so apologies if this issue is already fixed in the trunk.

	--- Mike

Re: 2.6.29 Networking Problems

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 26 March 2009, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>Alright, so I upgraded to 2.6.29 and had all sorts of issues with my
>networking (x86-64 system, both forcedeth and 3c59x NICs).  At first I
>thought my forcedeth NIC was dying or something, so I disabled it and
>installed a trusty 3com.  When it started acting up also, I began to
>suspect software, and some searching led me to the thread (and
>eventually the patch) at:
>
>  http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/14465/
>
>So, I applied this patch to my local kernel, and my test (transferring
>13 GiB of data over the LAN) now can be run repeatedly.  Prior to
>applying the patch, I'd start the transfer and it'd go for about 20
>seconds and all transfer would stop, and ping would not return errors,
>just nothing.
>
>Any chance that this patch will land in 2.6.29.1?  Or other code that
>fixes the same problem?  I haven't tried it against Linus' kernel tree
>yet because I probably won't run that kernel again until at least -rc2
>or -rc3, so apologies if this issue is already fixed in the trunk.
>
>	--- Mike

I'll second this on 2.6.29.  Asus M2N SLI Deluxe mobo, quad core phenom, 4GB 
ram.

When I woke up this morning I had no network.  Ifconfig said it was up and ok, 
but I couldn't even ping my router.  So I went to another machine and the 
router etc was fine.  Restarting the networking did not help.  The leds on the 
mobo jacks were on so the MCP55's hadn't been killed.  A reboot that took a 
good piece of an hour cuz it had timed out on 1.5 TB of drives and had to fsck 
them, and its been fine since.

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Re: 2.6.29 Networking Problems

[David Miller]

From: "Michael B. Trausch" <mike@trausch.us>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:20:45 -0400

> Any chance that this patch will land in 2.6.29.1?

It will the first patch I submit to -stable in a few
moments, don't worry.