Still problems receving multicasts with r8169.c driver from linux kernel (2.6.22.1) + patches
From: Reither Robert <hidden>
Date: 2007-07-16 13:28:17
Hi Francois, sorry, i 4got to add the netdev-cc should not happen again ;-) I still cannot access some patches (maybe u get them via browser cache or no right restrictions?) So, i added all your patches(1-21) from the bz2 file in the root-dir to a plain driver from 2.6.22.1 ... Fact is: I still have missing multicast packet income, but things changed: before i had one good try within 20, now i get my packet stream every second to 3rd try. Descrition what i do: i'm sending multicast packets (e.g. Dstn IP 224.1.13.1 port 10501) every 8,9ms the packetlen is 496 bytes (it's a RTP stream) to my linux system and monitor incoming packets with tcpdump -i eth0 (and my application of course) What i get now is, almost every 2nd attempt i start transmitting packets i get them just fine (without any drops between) on the other side on some attempts i start sending and i see no incoming multicast packets with tcpdump (as well as from within the receiving application) routes look OK, netstat -g shows correct memberships Greetings Robert -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Francois Romieu [mailto:romieu@fr.zoreil.com] Gesendet: Montag, 16. Juli 2007 13:05 An: Reither Robert Betreff: Re: Problems receving multicasts with r8169.c driver from linux kernel (2.6.21.5) Is there a specific reason why you did not Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org ? Reither Robert [off-list ref] : [...]
Tested now with latest official kernel (2.6.22.1), happens the same way.
Ok. It's the expected result.
Will now try to add the patches ... Can you give me a hint, which patch exactly could fix my problem ?
0020, 0021 and probably some bits of the merge with Realtek's driver. Start gross and apply everything. It takes something along the lines of: cat series | while read f; do patch -p1 $f; done
Btw, some patches from your link http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.22-rc6/r8169-20070628/ are not accessable (3, 9, 13, 18)
I have tried the four url below and they downloaded correctly: http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.22-rc6/r8169-20070628/0003-r8169-kill-eth_copy_and_sum.patch http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.22-rc6/r8169-20070628/0009-r8169-prettify-mac_version.patch http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.22-rc6/r8169-20070628/0013-r8169-small-8101-comment.patch http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.22-rc6/r8169-20070628/0018-r8169-add-endianess-annotations-to-RT-xDesc.patch Can you check your command line or grep the tarball in the upper directory ?
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