RE: unregister_netdevice

"Hamid Hashemi" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vlan
Organization Morva System Co.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It is Linux SDT-GW 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4smp #1 SMP Thu Oct 20 01:51:51 EDT 2005
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux.

I will try to check it again on kernel 2.6.14 to see if the same problem
exist or not.  


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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Ben Greear
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 2:51 AM
To: Linux 802.1Q VLAN
Subject: Re: [VLAN] unregister_netdevice

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

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Ben Greear <[email protected]>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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