Bug#583139: linux-2.6: no DHCP offers on r8169
[Please keep the bug # in the CC]
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:08:09AM +0200, Alexandre Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Thanks for the report. I don't see anything in -22 that looks like it
> > would've affected your setup, but in -22lenny1 there is a security fix
> > for the r8169 driver. Would you mind retesting -22 just to be sure?
>
> Yep me neither, that's why I tested multiple times...
>
> But just to be sure, I just tested another time, and my first results
> are not consistent with what I found again.
>
> I've been running for about a day with 2.6.26-22 and I could not reproduce.
>
> I'll try again to upgrade to -22lenny1 tonight.
Ok, sounds good.
> > Also, please supply the output of 'dmesg' on your system after the
> > dhcp fails on -22lenny1. It might be useful to see the output on
> > -21lenny4 as well for comparison.
>
> Not much interesting in those. In the following, r8169=eth0 and eth1
> is another interface running with 8139too.
>
> For 2.6.26-22lenny1 :
> --
> [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-22lenny1) (dan
> nf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SM
> P Wed May 12 18:14:56 UTC 2010
> [...]
> [ 23.631312] r8169: eth0: link up
> [ 86.387430] eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
> [ 86.863726] NET: Registered protocol family 10
> --
>
> For 2.6.26-22 :
> --
> [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-22) (dannf@deb
> ian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Tue
> Mar 9 17:24:55 UTC 2010
> [...]
> [ 22.893548] r8169: eth0: link up
> [ 71.346600] r8169: eth0: link down
> [ 89.546732] eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
> --
>
> For 2.6.26-21lenny4 (eth1, the next inerface, is up earlier because
> DHCP on eth0=r8169 succeeds) :
> --
> [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 (Debian
> 2.6.26-21lenny4) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704
> (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Tue Mar 9 23:10:10 UTC 2010
> [...]
> [ 32.418312] r8169: eth0: link up
> [ 37.406798] eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
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