On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 08:33:58 -0700 (PDT) shemminger@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 15:16:33 +0200 > > Mark Ruijter <bridge@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> I noticed that the VLAN code of kernels >=2.6.8 contain the patch needed > >> to mirror link state information from the real device to the vlan > >> device. > >> > >> This however causes the system to hang in combination with net-snmpd. > >> The last thing that I see is an ioctl(0x8947... > > > > What kind of ethernet devices do you have making use of VLAN? > > I suspect the underlying device doesn't support mii interface. > If that is true, then the code is doing the right thing (and net-snmp) > is being too dependant on MII. It does, it's tg3. And it shouldn't hang the machine, it's not just hanging userspace. Therefore it is a kernel bug.
