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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: linux-image-3.16-2-powerpc: Bridge configuration stopped working with kernel 3.16 (was working with previous kernel 3.14)
- From: Rubin Simons <rubin@xs4all.nl>
- Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 11:22:20 +0200
- Message-id: <20141001092220.3006.80757.reportbug@twiggy.raaf.local>
Source: linux-image-3.16-2-powerpc
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
I'm running Debian sid on PowerPC (Mac Mini) with a Sun GEM ethernet adapter. The system is running a bridge configuration (brctl and friends) as an OpenVPN server.
Last monday I upgraded to version 3.16 of the kernel (I was at 3.14). After a reboot, everything seemed fine, no error messages, no strangeness.
That same day I connected to the OpenVPN service on the box and noticed that stuff didn't work as it did before the upgrade; specifically, I could only reach the server itself and other connected clients (read: everything on the tap0 part of the bridge) and nothing on the network (read: everything behing the eth0 part of the bridge).
Initially I thought it might be a setup bug. Last two days I've rechecked everything, routing rules, firewalling stuff, etc; I verified the bridge worked within the host, but nothing traversed to/from the eth0 part of the bridge.
Today, I downgraded the kernel to 3.2.60 (package from stable) as the previous 3.14 kernel was not avalable anymore (and of course, I deinstalled it..). After installation of the 3.2.60 kernel, my bridge setup works normally again.
I'm pretty sure this is a bug in either the kernel bridge (tun) or ethernet (sungem) driver, or otherwise a bug in openvpn related to bridging on 3.16.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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