Hi I have a problem stacking bonding + vlan + bridge, typically my servers has two nic attached to two switch, one per nic, so I use bond in active- passive configuration, on top of this I create vlans and a bridge for vlan On ubuntu my network configuration are like this auto bond0 iface bond0 inet manual slaves eth0 eth1 bond_mode active-backup bond_primary eth0 bond_miimon 100 auto br18 iface br18 inet static address x.x.x.243 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway x.x.x.254 bridge_ports bond0.18 bridge_fd 0 bridge_maxwait 0 auto br23 iface br23 inet manual bridge_ports bond0.23 bridge_fd 0 bridge_maxwait 0 and so on This machines are used as host for virtual machine, so vm are attached to one or more of these bridge If either eth0 and eth1 are up there are lots of this message in syslog bond0.18: received packet with own address as source address and only solution is to do ip link set eth1 down after this everything works without problem note that this problem appear in random way and "seems" related to presence of a vm that do bridge with his eth (normally for openvpn server) I have this problem either in xen and kvm intallation, 2.6.24 and 2.6.32 respectively. Googling I found lots of person with the same problem but without a clear solution, any hint how to solve/debug? thanks -- Cordiali saluti Alessandro Bono -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html