netdev - Re: Bug#625914: linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64: bridging is not interacting well with multicast in 2.6.38-4

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Message-ID: <4DC935D5.4020601@univ-nantes.fr>
Date:	Tue, 10 May 2011 14:55:49 +0200
From:	Yann Dupont <Yann.Dupont@...v-nantes.fr>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
CC:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#625914: linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64: bridging is not interacting
 well with multicast in 2.6.38-4

> On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 21:38 -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 03:38:44AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>>> This is pretty weird.  Debian version 2.6.38-3 has a few bridging
>>> changes from stable 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.38.4, but they don't look like they
>>> would cause this.
>> I have apparently filed the bug against the wrong version of Debian's
>> kernel.  2.6.38-3 is not affected, and works as expected.  The change
>> was introduced in -4.  That may have been clear from the report itself,
>> but the report was filed against -3.  I've fixed that in the BTS.
> I gathered that, and then made the same mistake in writing the above!
> The version with the regression, 2.6.38-4, includes the changes from
> stable 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.38.4
>
> Ben.
>
>

We just hitted the very same problem yesterday, with debian too , BUT 
with vanilla kernels (hand compiled from GIT, with a specific config).

I can confirm that 2.6.38.5 & 2.6.38.6 have this problem, but 2.6.38.3 
works fine.

So this is not a debian specific bug as far as I can see.

Cheers,

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Yann Dupont - Service IRTS, DSI Université de Nantes
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