netdev - Re: Problems with dropped packets on bonded interface for 3.x kernels

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Date:	Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:02:29 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems with dropped packets on bonded interface for 3.x
 kernels

Le lundi 21 novembre 2011 à 01:44 -0600, Albert Chin a écrit :

> So only "unknown" protocols are dropped? I just ran tcpdump for 96
> packets and inspected the output. The only packets received are LACP,
> ARP, STP (Spanning Tree Protocol), DTP (Dynamic Trunking Protocol).
> How are these "unknown"?

No protocol handler is setup to analyze some them in your box.

(ARP is handled of course)

Like if you receive IPv6 packets while IPv6 was not compiled/loaded into
your kernel.

Nothing you have to worry about. We receive plenty of unknown packets
these days...



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