netdev - Re: My e1000e GBE card is eating all port 623 pks

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Date:	Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:13:24 +0200
From:	Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@...nsmode.se>
To:	Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@...-lyon.org>
Cc:	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: My e1000e GBE card is eating all port 623 pks

Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@...-lyon.org> wrote on 2012/04/25 11:57:47:
>
> On 25/04/2012 11:06, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > Jesse Brandeburg<jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>  wrote on 2012/04/24 23:51:28:
> >> On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:31:09 +0200
> >> Joakim Tjernlund<joakim.tjernlund@...nsmode.se>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> Looks like port 623 is some mgmt protocol and our e1000e boards are eating these
> >>> pkgs and this trips NIS, finger and yptest hangs for a long time before timing out and
> >>> moving on.
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to tell the network stack not to eat port 623 pkgs or
> >>> have NIS not to use port 623?
> >> I think you might be looking for something like portreserve
> >> (see man portreserve)
> > Seen portreserve on the web(gentoo does not have it) but it seems like a workaround.
> > Should not eating port 623 be something one should turn on? Now it is default on
> > and I cannot find a way to turn it off.
> >
>
> It might be related to IPMI (UDP/623 iirc). Try looking in your BIOS
> and/or network firmware config at boot, there might be things to disable
> there.

Been looking around but didn't find anything to turn this off, can you be more specific
where to look?

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