Hamid Hashemi wrote: > Hi, > > Sometimes ago I saw a post on the list which indicates that unregister_netdevice on vlan interfaces made some problem for restarting the network service. > Today I experienced the problem again and following Ben request I tried to unload the iptables module from the kernel to see if it is related to the iptables but it is not. I have already the problem on 1 of my VLAN interfaces and it is still giving me this message on the messages : > > Dec 2 02:39:49 SDT-GW kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0.102 to become free. Usage count = 1 > Dec 2 02:40:20 SDT-GW last message repeated 3 times > Dec 2 02:41:30 SDT-GW last message repeated 7 times > Dec 2 02:42:40 SDT-GW last message repeated 7 times > Dec 2 02:43:41 SDT-GW last message repeated 6 times > > Any other idea or test to findout the problem ?! What kernel are you running? A bug was fixed in 2.6.14 relating to a reference leak..but it's possible this is a different ref leak problem. Ben -- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com