Bug 66139

Summary:	MTU-Problems with VLAN
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Frank Mueller <fmuel>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	7.3
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Description Frank Mueller 2002-06-05 10:47:14 UTC

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Description of problem:
NFS over VLANs: Using the standard MTU of 1500 copying large files hangs. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ifup vlan2
2. mount install:/redhad /mnt/install
3. dir /mnt/install                       (works perfectly)
4. cp /mnt/install/kernel.tar.gz /tmp     (hangs)
 

Actual Results:  System hangs until I either shutdown the interface or reduce mtu

Expected Results:  file should be copied

Additional info:

After reducing MTU to 1400 on both sides, it works. Tested with tulip and 3C59x. Other end: RH72 without VLAN tagging connected via 3COM 3300 switch.

Comment 1 David Miller 2002-06-05 22:25:04 UTC

VLAN is known to be broken with several cards without fixes
to the drivers for those cards.

There is no ETA on when the fixes will be done to the cards
that need them.  3c59x is one such card.  The best we could
do is basically make VLAN fail to initialize on such cards
but that would restrict you from being able to use VLAN with
a reduced MTU which does work around the problem.

Comment 2 acount closed by user 2003-05-22 01:04:44 UTC

rh brings vconfig package at 9 and rh-kernel has vlan support  but a lot of
drivers have problems with MTU/vlan. Are going this to change soon?

more vlan bugs:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88592
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81570
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84212