Re: Bonding/VLAN support for sunhme driver in 2.6.18 (etch)
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 05:17:45PM -0700, Chris Poon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Don't know if this is the right place to e-mail instead of filing a bug
> report directly. I have a Sun Netra T1 105 running Etch where I tried
> to bond the 2 internal NIC and run 802.1q on top. What I find is that
> the sunhme driver never had the proper support for either (the bonding
> driver complains about link being down all the time even though the
> underlying device works, and you need to lower the MTU to use
> VLAN on top as the driver didn't raise the internal buffer for the
> extra bytes in a 802.1q frame). I had a patch fixing both that I used
> for the custom kernel that I build and I'm wondering what is the best
> way for me to send this so it can be incorporated (maybe just attaching
> the patch with my webmail client?)
The best way is to work with upstream to get this fixed in the newest
kernel, then file a bug asking us to backport this fix.
For more information, see:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelReportingBugs
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dann frazier
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