Re: [PATCHv3 net 0/2] bonding: fix incorrect mac address setting

[Hangbin Liu]

Hi Jay,

Any comments?

Thanks
Hangbin
On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 07:31:32AM +0000, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> Hi Jay,
> On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 06:34:21AM +0000, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > Please hold on this patch. Our QE reported that with bare NIC, the
> > backup NIC can't receive the NS messages even after joining the multicast
> > MAC group. But after remove the backup NIC from bond, the NIC interface
> > could receive the NS message.
> > 
> > This is weird, it looks the backup NIC dropped the NS message somewhere,
> > even using tcpdump (the NIC will be in promisc mode) I can't capture the
> > NS message on backup slave.
> > 
> > I need to debug more.
> 
> After debug, I find it's a driver issue. The issue exists with ice dirver NIC.
> I tried with a mlx5 NIC and the patch works good for me.
> 
> So I think you can start review this patch when you have time. I will debug
> the ice driver later.
> 
> Thanks
> Hangbin