As you suspected, I believe the igb driver is at fault – I configured a bridge on the same machine using onboard tg3 cards.
The bridge worked fine and the fault did not occur until I SCP’d a file to the server on the igb card. After which the bridge continued to work fine.
Thanks for your help.
Mark
On 13/10/2010 16:46, "Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:27:18 -0400
Mark Liggett <mliggett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm using Ethernet bridging on an up-to-date F13 system. I've created a bridge adapter br0 and added eth2 and eth3 to it. Everything works as expected for a short time before the 2 Ethernet cards used in the bridge start reporting millions of errors. I confirmed this is the case on 2 separate systems (although both systems use Intel NICs). To try to resolve this I've:
>
> - Compiled and installed the latest Intel igb driver 2.3.4
> - Installed the latest Fedora kernel 2.6.34.7-56
> - Uninstalled the standard bridge-utils 1.2-9, before compiling and installing version 1.4
>
> I've pastebin'd the system config here: http://pastebin.ca/1960777
>
> You can see the errors listed on eth2 and eth3. I've tried both setting the bridge up using /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts as well as manually (using brctl and ifconfig).
>
> My bridge/Ethernet interface configs are listed here: http://pastebin.ca/1960790
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
You might also be creating a packet loop?
Turn on spanning tree and find out.
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