Bug#709616: floods the network with pause packets

2014-08-12 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Hello, Since I've upgraded to Linux 3.14, this bug occurs more often. The record of uptime so far is 7 days and 18 hours. Tail of "uprecords -b -m 0" output: 46 19 days, 23:50:56 | Linux 3.13-1-amd64 Tue Apr 22 09:37:55 2014 477 days, 04:20:44 | Linux 3.14-1-amd64 Mon May 19 15:08:4

Bug#709616: floods the network with pause packets

2013-12-10 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Package: src:linux Followup-For: Bug #709616 Le 24/10/2013 16:20, Stéphane Glondu a écrit : > This bug hadn't happend in a long time... but it just happened with > linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 (version 3.10.11-1). The longest uptime I got > so far since I initially submitted this bug is 24 days (I fre

Bug#709616: floods the network with pause packets

2013-11-09 Thread Florian Gleixner
I have the same issue with opensuse 12.3 kernel 3.7.10-1.16. I can trigger it: whenever i mount a filesystem via nfs (i use nfs4) and try to copy there a large amount of data (1.5 GB), the complete network gets a DOS. NICs that communicate: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I217-V (rev 04) Inte

Bug#709616: floods the network with pause packets

2013-10-24 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Package: src:linux Followup-For: Bug #709616 Hello, This bug hadn't happend in a long time... but it just happened with linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 (version 3.10.11-1). The longest uptime I got so far since I initially submitted this bug is 24 days (I frequently reboot my computer because I follow t

Bug#709616: floods the network with pause packets

2013-05-30 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 30/05/2013 14:58, Ben Hutchings a écrit : >>> Could you check whether the switch is also sending pause frames back to >>> the port that's generating them? >> >> How exactly do I do that? Is disconnecting the faulty computer and >> connecting my laptop in its place right? > > ethtool -S eth0 | g

Bug#709616: floods the network with pause packets

2013-05-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 11:21 +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > Le 26/05/2013 18:10, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > OK, so the switch is indeed defective: it says it can handle pause > > frames, but it can't. > > The problem happened on (at least) two different switches from different > manufacturers (Tr

Bug#709616: floods the network with pause packets

2013-05-30 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 26/05/2013 18:10, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > OK, so the switch is indeed defective: it says it can handle pause > frames, but it can't. The problem happened on (at least) two different switches from different manufacturers (Transtec and Netgear). FWIW, the problem just happened on another machi

Bug#709616: floods the network with pause packets

2013-05-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-05-26 at 11:02 +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > Le 26/05/2013 03:54, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > I forgot, e1000e still doesn't report autoneg state completely through > > ethtool. How about 'mii-tool -v eth0'? > > # mii-tool -v eth0 > SIOCGMIIREG on eth0 failed: Input/output error >

Bug#709616: floods the network with pause packets

2013-05-26 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 26/05/2013 03:54, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > I forgot, e1000e still doesn't report autoneg state completely through > ethtool. How about 'mii-tool -v eth0'? # mii-tool -v eth0 SIOCGMIIREG on eth0 failed: Input/output error SIOCGMIIREG on eth0 failed: Input/output error eth0: negotiated 100baseT

Bug#709616: floods the network with pause packets

2013-05-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 10:04 +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > Le 24/05/2013 18:07, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > >> With Linux 3.8, my computer starts (after some time) flooding its > >> network interface with pause packets, effectively freezing it and > >> other network-dependent computers connected to

Bug#709616: floods the network with pause packets

2013-05-25 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 24/05/2013 18:07, Ben Hutchings a écrit : >> With Linux 3.8, my computer starts (after some time) flooding its >> network interface with pause packets, effectively freezing it and >> other network-dependent computers connected to the same switch. > > Switches should normally be configured to ge

Bug#709616: floods the network with pause packets

2013-05-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 02:40:59PM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 3.8.13-1 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainers, > > With Linux 3.8, my computer starts (after some time) flooding its > network interface with pause packets, effectively

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2013-05-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#709616: floods the network with pause packets

2013-05-24 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Package: src:linux Version: 3.8.13-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainers, With Linux 3.8, my computer starts (after some time) flooding its network interface with pause packets, effectively freezing it and other network-dependent computers connected to the same switch. When I disconnect it from