Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 637556
Bonded interface doesn't issue IGMP report (join) on slave interface during failover
Last modified: 2011-02-16 10:39:37 EST
Description of problem: In an active/backup bonding network interface with vlans on top of it, when a link fails over, it takes a minute for the multicast domain to be rejoined. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.9-89.EL How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create bonding a/b, attach a vlan on top of it 2. Simulate the failover 3. There are no IGMP join packets sent Actual results: No IGMP join packets sent Expected results: The driver sends IGMP join.
Please attach the patch added to the kernel in comment #1 that resolves this issue.
=== In Red Hat Customer Portal Case 00320291 === --- Comment by Leitner, Flavio on 9/29/2010 10:11 AM --- Patches posted upstream: Subject: [PATCH] bonding: fix to rejoin multicast groups immediately http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128574433815366&w=2 Subject: [PATCH] bonding: rejoin multicast groups on VLANs http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128574435115389&w=2 Flavio
Created attachment 451286 [details] 1/3 bonding: fix to rejoin multicast groups immediately This is a backport of upstream post: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg142258.html
Created attachment 451287 [details] 2/3 bonding: rejoin multicast groups on VLANs This patch is a backport of upstream post http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg142259.html
Created attachment 451288 [details] 3/3 bonding: add retransmit membership reports tunable This patch is a backport of upstream post http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg142449.html
Created attachment 451290 [details] all three patches grouped This is a backport of all three patches grouped in a single one.
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.
Committed in 89.40.EL . RPMS are available at http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/
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 therefore 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-2011-0263.html