Re: iwl4965 dropping packets and __dev_addr_discard: addressleakage! da_users=1

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Tue Feb 26 2008 - 03:33:47 EST



> > Possibly because of the frequent renegotiating my iwl4965 card has
> > been making, it has now decided it's not going to pass packets
> > reliably until presumably next time I reboot.

Can't say anything about that.

> > I've noticed messages in syslog that I hadn't seen when things were
> > working fine. The problem possibly has only surfaced after rmmodding
> > the iwl4965 module, then remodding it. It stays with me through being
> > removed and modprobed again. It is being bonded in conjunction with a
> > physical ethernet, if that is relevant, although I think I reproduced
> > it when it was on its lonesome.

> > Feb 23 03:05:23 dirac kernel: __dev_addr_discard: address leakage! da_users=1

I've seen that before on other hardware but so far haven't managed to
track it down or even reliably reproduce it.

johannes

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