Hi Ben, I can try (re)running the 4.9 backport and see if the issue resurfaces.
What is the correlation between the debian kernel (backported) and the mainline one (it says version 4.9.2-2~bpo8+1 - so is it essentially _EXACTLY_ 4.9.2)? Thanks. Regards, Narayanan. On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > [Reply to all, not just to me.] > > On Fri, 2017-02-17 at 08:42 +0530, Narayanan R S wrote: > > Hello Ben, > > > > I did have the documented ICMP network issues when I used the 4.9 version > > of the backported kernel. > > > > When I reverted back to the 4.8 version (of the backported kernel), > > everything was back to normal. > > > > I am not sure when in the 4.9 series this was fixed but the bug report > > explicitly documents 4.9.5. I am not sure what version the backported > > kernel + patches corresponds to in the official/mainstream 4.9 kernel. > > The fix is said to have been applied *before* 4.9 and confirmed as > fixed in version 4.9.5. There have been no fixes to netfilter between > 4.9.2 (which I think you're using) and 4.9.5. > > So it sounds like you might have found a different bug. > > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. > >
