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Bug#579496: marked as done (virtio_net loses outbound connectivity)

Your message dated Wed, 9 Nov 2011 02:39:54 +0000
with message-id <20111109023954.GN3366@decadent.org.uk>
and subject line Re: Bug#579496: virtio_net loses outbound connectivity
has caused the Debian Bug report #579496,
regarding virtio_net loses outbound connectivity
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Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.26-21lenny4
Severity: normal

On some of my systems, some time after boot (from about 1 to 8 days)
the kernel stops emitting packets (?). Using tcpdump on eth0 on the
guest I could see incoming ARP requests from the host but no answers.
No errors have been logged by the kernel and removing and loading again
virtio_net fixed the issue.

I experienced this bug 4 times, three on a system running 2.6.26-2-amd64
and one on another system running 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64.
I have over 100 guests running the same kernels (some also running the
same services of the affected ones) but so far I have seen this only on
these two recently installed systems.
I can't see how this could be related but all the affected systems use
AMD CPUs, while most other systems use Intel CPUs.

The hosts are running RHEL5 (kernel 2.6.18-194.el5).

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Marco

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Version: 2.6.32-35

On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 06:52:53PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Feb 24, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Please try the kernel package from squeeze with the addition of the
> > attached patches.  (These patches fix different bugs which can also
> > cause virtio_net to stop passing traffic.  They are not applicable to
> > Linux 2.6.26.)
> I have not tested the patch, but the squeeze to lenny 2.6.32 backport
> fixes this bug.

I'm assuming that's version 2.6.32-35@bpo50+1, therefore closing
with the corresponding version from squeze.

By the way, backports is now way out of date with security fixes.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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