-Peter
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:15:28AM -0800, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> I've installed 2.4.17 on a 2-cpu p2 333 system and am getting some kind of
> corruption in the ifconfig output.
>
> I'm running debian, mostly testing, some unstable (most of the unstable is
> gnome-related, though). The net-tools package version is 1.60-4, and
> netbase package is version 4.07.
>
> I see the following when I test:
>
> [spacey@obelisk mp3]$ sudo /sbin/modprobe bonding iimon=100
> Warning: /lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/drivers/net/bonding.o parameter max_bonds has max < min!
> [spacey@obelisk mp3]$ sudo /sbin/modprobe tulip
> [spacey@obelisk mp3]$ /sbin/lsmod
> Module Size Used by Not tainted
> bonding 11180 0 (unused)
> [...]
> tulip 37568 0 (unused)
> [...]
> [spacey@obelisk bonding]$ sudo ifconfig bond0 10.0.3.20 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.3.255
> [spacey@obelisk bonding]$ sudo route add -net 10.0.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 10.0.3.20
> [spacey@obelisk bonding]$ /sbin/ifconfig bond0
> bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
> inet addr:10.0.3.20 Bcast:10.0.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> [spacey@obelisk bonding]$ /sbin/ifconfig eth1
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:B9:43:89
> BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2000
>
> and the same for eth[2-4] with their MAC address incrementing by 1.
>
> Now, when bonding the interfaces using the ifenslave included with the
> kernel in linux/Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c:
>
> [spacey@obelisk bonding]$ gcc -I /usr/src/linux-2.4.17/include -o /tmp/ifenslave /usr/src/linux-2.4.17/Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c
> [spacey@obelisk bonding]$ sudo /tmp/ifenslave bond0 eth1 eth2 eth3 eth4
>
> OK, now watch this:
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:B9:43:89
> Media:U<89><E5><83><EC
> <8B>f<83>8^Du^N<83><C4><F4><83><C0>^BP<E8><E1><FE><FF><FF><EB> <83><C4><FC>j@
> <83><C4><F4>h>>^<E8><DD><8C><FF><FF><83><C4>^PPh i^<E8>7
> inet addr:10.0.3.20 Bcast:10.0.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING SLAVE MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:1 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:60 (60.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2000
>
> eth[1-4] are all the same - something in the media field is being clobbered
> or otherwise messed up. The same thing, with the same model/make of quad
> nic, the same driver and the same kernel, though slightly different build
> options does work on an alpha.
>
> I've mentioned this on the bonding list, but nothing has turned up. Can
> anyone suggest what might be doing this, and what I should be looking at to
> figure out a fix?
>
> If relevant .configs would help, let me know and I'll send them along.
>
> TIA,
> -Peter
>
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