From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc3 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: When heaviliy sending UDP packets, the bonding driver failed to switch to the backup link. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bonding-devel&m=112056134412688&w=2 The problem is as follows. 1. While executing an application that transmits UDP packets 2. When the e1000 driver's link goes down 3. The bonding driver switches the link to the backup link, but no packets are sent from the new link. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-11.EL How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Transmitt packets. 2. Cause e1000 driver's link to go down. 3. After that, the bonding driver will switch the link to the backup link. Actual Results: No packets are sent from the new link. Expected Results: The packets should be sent from the new link. Additional info: http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/patch@1.2850.1.22?nav=index.html|src/|src/net|src/net/core|related/net/core/link_watch.c|cset@1.2850.1.22
Created attachment 117417 [details] Patch verified by customer to fix problem.
Test kernels w/ above patch available here: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel4/ Please give them a try and verify that they are working for you...thanks!
*** Bug 167115 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0132.html
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0436.html Internal Status set to 'Resolved' Status set to: Closed by Tech This event sent from IssueTracker by tumeya issue 78516