Description of problem: I have a RHEL4 system (Dell 2650) that uses an 802.1q VLAN trunk to connect to multiple subnets. This has worked fine for some time, but upon upgrading to kernel 2.6.9-34.EL one of the VLAN interfaces stopped working. The interface works fine if I boot back to 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL. After some experimentation I found that whichever VLAN interface is brought up first fails to work; the others are fine. The network port is Tigon3 [partno(BCM95703A30) rev 1002 PHY(5703)]. I believe the updated tg3 driver (v3.43-rh) in this kernel is the culprit, because I have a Dell 2850 with e1000 interfaces in a very similar configuration and the VLAN interfaces work fine on 2.6.9-34.EL. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.9-34.EL (tg3 v3.43-rh) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Define multiple VLAN interfaces on RHEL4 kernel 2.6.9-34.EL using a tg3 interface. 2. Boot the system 3. Observe that the first-initialized VLAN interface will not pass any traffic. Actual results: VLAN interface passes not traffic and is not pingable. Expected results: VLAN interface should work. :) Additional info: Upon googling I found a similar bug reported for CentOS here: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1276
hi Steve, this looks like a duplicate of 188087 which we have fixed in the U4 beta...if you want to try that kernel: http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/ Please re-open this if this is a separate issue. thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 188087 ***
I did do a Bugzilla search before I posted this. When I try to view 188087 I get "Access Denied You are not authorized to access bug #188087."