Package: ifupdown2
Version: 3.0.0-1.1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
When using the latest ifupdown2 in Debian I get this error on an Nvidia SN2010
switch:
ifreload -a
error: swp4: cmd '/sbin/ethtool --set-fec swp4 encoding auto' failed: returned
83 (netlink error: Operation not supported)
It seems this attempts to set Forward Error Correction to Auto.
ifupdown2 version 3.0.0-1.1
ethtool version 6.1
The Spectrum (mlxsw) driver does not support --set-fec encoding auto
I can make the error go away by commenting this line:
/usr/share/ifupdown2/addons/ethtool.py
if feccmd:
try:
feccmd = ('%s --set-fec %s %s' %
(utils.ethtool_cmd, ifaceobj.name, feccmd))
#utils.exec_command(feccmd)
I asked the mlxsw developers and they responded with:
"The problem needs to be solved in ifupdown2, which should not assume that
every net device
implements these optional operations."
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_ZA:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages ifupdown2 depends on:
ii iproute2 6.1.0-3
ii python3 3.11.2-1+b1
ifupdown2 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages ifupdown2 suggests:
pn bridge-utils <none>
ii ethtool 1:6.1-1
ii isc-dhcp-client 4.4.3-P1-2
pn python3-gvgen <none>
pn python3-mako <none>
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