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Bug#709616: floods the network with pause packets



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
> SIOCGMIIREG on eth0 failed: Input/output error
> eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok
>   product info: vendor 00:55:00, model 9 rev 0
>   basic mode:   autonegotiation enabled
>   basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok
>   capabilities: 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
>   advertising:  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control
>   link partner: 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD
> 10baseT-HD flow-control

OK, so the switch is indeed defective: it says it can handle pause
frames, but it can't.

Could you check whether the switch is also sending pause frames back to
the port that's generating them?

> I am not sure about who to put in CC of this mail; I've just put the
> Debian bug.

You replied-to-all, which is correct.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Computers are not intelligent.	They only think they are.

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