[PATCH 1/3] ppc64: iseries_veth: Don't send packets to LPARs which aren't up

Michael Ellerman michael at ellerman.id.au
Tue May 10 09:04:09 EST 2005


On Tue, 10 May 2005 03:27, David Howells wrote:
> Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> > The iseries_veth driver has a logic bug which means it will erroneously
> > send packets to LPARs for which we don't have a connection.
>
> Any particular versions of the kernel?

2.6.* I believe. Certainly RHEL4's version is broken.

I haven't got an RHEL3 kernel handy, but the 2.6 driver was based on the 2.4 
version I believe, so it's possible the bug is in 2.4 too.

cheers

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