Control: reassign -1 src:linux
On Mi, 01 oct 14, 11:22:20, Rubin Simons wrote:
> Source: linux-image-3.16-2-powerpc
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I'm running Debian sid on PowerPC (Mac Mini) with a Sun GEM ethernet adapter.
> The system is running a bridge configuration (brctl and friends) as an
> OpenVPN server.
>
> Last monday I upgraded to version 3.16 of the kernel (I was at 3.14). After a
> reboot, everything seemed fine, no error messages, no strangeness.
>
> That same day I connected to the OpenVPN service on the box and noticed that
> stuff didn't work as it did before the upgrade; specifically, I could only
> reach the server itself and other connected clients (read: everything on the
> tap0 part of the bridge) and nothing on the network (read: everything behing
> the eth0 part of the bridge).
>
> Initially I thought it might be a setup bug. Last two days I've rechecked
> everything, routing rules, firewalling stuff, etc; I verified the bridge
> worked within the host, but nothing traversed to/from the eth0 part of the
> bridge.
>
> Today, I downgraded the kernel to 3.2.60 (package from stable) as the
> previous 3.14 kernel was not avalable anymore (and of course, I deinstalled
> it..). After installation of the 3.2.60 kernel, my bridge setup works
> normally again.
>
> I'm pretty sure this is a bug in either the kernel bridge (tun) or ethernet
> (sungem) driver, or otherwise a bug in openvpn related to bridging on 3.16.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
> APT prefers testing-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-powerpc
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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