Robert Watson said the following on 7/7/06 7:17 AM:
> I just left a "tcpdump -n arp host 10.10.64.40" on a third machine >
sniffing around and tested all em module versions I had (the stock
6.1, > 6-STABLE and 6-STABLE with your patch), but got silence on all
three:
That's odd. I've tested it on CURRENT and I could see the ARP packet.
Are you sure you patched correctly? If so I have to build a RELENG_6
machine and give it try.
Is it possible you're seeing an interaction between the reset generated
as part of IP address changing, and the time it takes to negotiate
link? It's possible that the arp packets are being eaten during the
link negotiation, so for systems negotiating quickly (or not at all)
then the arp packet is seen on other hosts, and otherwise not...
Looks like this is exactly what happens.
I was able to see it by running two tcpdump instances - one on the EM
machine running in background and another running elsewhere on the same
subnet.
So on the EM machine the arp packet actually gets generated by em(4) and
caught by the tcpdump running there:
EM# tcpdump -n arp and ether src 00:04:23:b5:1b:ff &
EM#
EM# ifconfig em1 inet alias 10.10.64.40
EM# 11:28:37.178946 arp who-has 10.10.64.40 tell 10.10.64.40
EM#
But it doesn't reach the other tcpdump instance running on another host.
It seems that the arp packet gets killed before leaving the EM machine,
due to the card initialization or something else.
I tried sending it manually with arping, just to make sure both tcpdumps
operate properly and yes, the packet got delivered to both.
I think that I have patched, built and loaded the em(4) kernel module
correctly. After applying the patch there were no rejects, before
building the module I intentionally appended " (patched)" to its version
string in if_em.c, and could see that in dmesg every time I loaded the
module:
em1: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 3.2.18 (patched)>
Regards,
Atanas
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