Re: [Bridge] Giving enslaved interface an IP?

2010-10-18 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:16:18 -0700 Thomas Taranowski wrote: > I have bridged eth0 and eth1, where eth0 is the world, and eth1 has > some locally administered targets with normal IPs. On eth1, I also > have some other devices with 192.168.x.x addresses I locally assigned. > I'd like to give my e

Re: [Bridge] [PATCH] bridge: Forward reserved group addresses if !STP

2010-10-18 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:09:35 -0400 Benjamin Poirier wrote: > Make all frames sent to reserved group MAC addresses (01:80:c2:00:00:00 to > 01:80:c2:00:00:0f) be forwarded if STP is disabled. This enables > forwarding EAPOL frames, among other things. > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier Signed-o

[Bridge] Giving enslaved interface an IP?

2010-10-18 Thread Thomas Taranowski
I have bridged eth0 and eth1, where eth0 is the world, and eth1 has some locally administered targets with normal IPs. On eth1, I also have some other devices with 192.168.x.x addresses I locally assigned. I'd like to give my eth1 a 192.168.x.x address, and treat the 192.168.x.x network as someth

Re: [Bridge] 2.6.36-rc7: net/bridge causes temporary network I/O lockups [2]

2010-10-18 Thread Patrick Ringl
On 10/18/2010 06:16 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 08:15:31PM +0200, Patrick Ringl wrote: Hi, okay I narrowed down the issue. I watched all function calls of the 'bridge' module with the help of a small systemtap probe of mine. I first traced a timespan where the issue did no

Re: [Bridge] EAPOL bridging

2010-10-18 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:06:28 -0400 Benjamin Poirier wrote: > Hello, > > I have some trouble bridging EAPOL frames. I'd like to do this to allow > wired 802.1x authentication from within a kvm virtual machine. I have > the following setup: > > kvm -- tap0 -- br0 -- eth1 -- 802.1x authenticator

Re: [Bridge] 2.6.36-rc7: net/bridge causes temporary network I/O lockups [2]

2010-10-18 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 08:15:31PM +0200, Patrick Ringl wrote: > Hi, > > okay I narrowed down the issue. I watched all function calls of the > 'bridge' module with the help of a small systemtap probe of mine. I > first traced a timespan where the issue did not occur, then one where it > did a

[Bridge] EAPOL bridging

2010-10-18 Thread Benjamin Poirier
Hello, I have some trouble bridging EAPOL frames. I'd like to do this to allow wired 802.1x authentication from within a kvm virtual machine. I have the following setup: kvm -- tap0 -- br0 -- eth1 -- 802.1x authenticator (switch) -- more network and it doesn't work. I've added a few logging ru

[Bridge] 2.6.36-rc7: net/bridge causes temporary network I/O lockups [2]

2010-10-18 Thread Patrick Ringl
Hi, okay I narrowed down the issue. I watched all function calls of the 'bridge' module with the help of a small systemtap probe of mine. I first traced a timespan where the issue did not occur, then one where it did and composed an intersection of these two: br_fdb_cleanup br_flood br_flood_f

[Bridge] 2.6.36-rc7: net/bridge causes temporary network I/O lockups

2010-10-18 Thread Patrick Ringl
Hi, after I recently switched from 2.6.32 to 2.6.35 (and for testing to 2.6.36-rc7) I had massive issues with temporarily occurring freezes regarding the whole network stack. The freezes are occurring randomly and usually take 20-30 seconds until the system is responsive again (in addition loc