Bug 172210 - Networking dies when iperf command run
Summary: Networking dies when iperf command run
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 4
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Miller
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-01 16:12 UTC by Ryan Sharpe
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-05-05 13:10:00 UTC
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Description Ryan Sharpe 2005-11-01 16:12:01 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

Description of problem:
When ever I run the iperf command all network connectivity dies. It doesn't matter what switches I use to run it. I used a precompiled version and a compiled version. When I use either of the 2.6.13 kernel updates from red hat all the network connectivity to the server dies. To regain connectivity I use the network init script and cycle the interface. When I use the base kernel (2.6.11) I can run iperf just fine. It has never mattered what user the command is run as. I am running a Dell 2850 with a Intel Corporation 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.13-*

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login
2. Run iperf
3.
  

Actual Results:  ------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to x.x.x.x, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 96.0 KByte (WARNING: requested 48.0 KByte)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local x.x.x.x port 51319 connected with x.x.x.x port 5001

Then all connectivity dies and the iperf process never finishes and never exits

Expected Results:  ------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to x.x.x.x, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 96.0 KByte (WARNING: requested 48.0 KByte)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local x.x.x.x port 51319 connected with x.x.x.x port 5001
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  65.8 MBytes  55.2 Mbits/sec
[root@fjdkl rsharpe]#

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2005-11-05 00:55:49 UTC
does the 2.6.14 update in updates-testing fix this ?


Comment 2 Ryan Sharpe 2005-11-07 13:54:17 UTC
No the 2.6.14 kernel does the exact same thing.

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2005-11-10 19:52:38 UTC
2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 has been released as an update for FC4.
Please retest with this update, as a large amount of code has been changed in
this release, which may have fixed your problem.

Thank you.


Comment 4 Dave Jones 2006-02-03 07:03:30 UTC
This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs.

A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4)
based upon a new upstream kernel release.

Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches
go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that
may address this problem.

This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state.
Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is
still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed.

Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter
can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list
of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a
comment to the bug.

If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the
release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613.

Thank you.


Comment 5 John Thacker 2006-05-05 13:10:00 UTC
Closing per previous comment.


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