Twas brillig at 16:14:58 05.07.2008 UTC+01 when [EMAIL PROTECTED] did gyre and gimble:
JD> Sure -- I'm CCing debian-arm incase someone there has a n2100 JD> running one of those kernels already -- it will take me days to JD> build it :) JD> Can someone verify that the rtl 8169 multicast bug is present on JD> modern kernels: best way is to ensure your iface is not promisc, JD> and run something like mt-daapd and see if after 30 minutes or so JD> your share disappears from the network, and whether setting the JD> iface to promisc fixes it. I confirm this bug. I run the avahi-daemon on the device and it does not respond on multicast queries until tcpdump is started and then it works fine. This behavior is repeatable even with BROADCAST flag on the interface (actually running tcpdump is critical due to some reason). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]% uname -a Linux homenas 2.6.25-2-iop32x #2 Sat Jun 28 16:10:57 UTC 2008 armv5tel GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]1% cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : XScale-80219 rev 0 (v5l) BogoMIPS : 593.10 Features : swp half fastmult edsp CPU implementer : 0x69 CPU architecture: 5TE CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0x2e3 CPU revision : 0 Cache type : undefined 5 Cache clean : undefined 5 Cache lockdown : undefined 5 Cache format : Harvard I size : 32768 I assoc : 32 I line length : 32 I sets : 32 D size : 32768 D assoc : 32 D line length : 32 D sets : 32 Hardware : Thecus N2100 Revision : 0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]% apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6.25-2-iop32x linux-image-2.6.25-2-iop32x: Installed: 2.6.25-6 Candidate: 2.6.25-6 Version table: *** 2.6.25-6 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status --
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