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* master/slave: Kernel enslaves a L3-configured interface even if it can't work that way (the same in the opposite order, reported by djasa)
* master/slave: Kernel enslaves a L3-configured interface even if it can't work that way (the same in the opposite order, reported by djasa)
* bridge: re-enslaving a slave to another bridge may cause two bridges to have duplicate MACs
* bridge: re-enslaving a slave to another bridge may cause two bridges to have duplicate MACs
* bridge: an empty bridge gets IFF_LOWER_UP when set up, which constitutes a race condition for carrier detection when first slave is added
* [http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910348 bridge: an empty bridge gets IFF_LOWER_UP when set up, which constitutes a race condition for carrier detection when first slave is added]


=== libnl ===
=== libnl ===

Revision as of 12:30, 12 February 2013

Known networking bugs

Only platform bugs that can influence various application and/or the overall behavior of the system belong here.

Kernel

libnl

  • rtnl_link_bond_add() succeeds when device already exists
  • rtnl_link_bridge_add() and rtnl_link_vlan_add missing

iproute

  • ip link show won't distinguish bridges and bonds
  • ip link show won't show vlan id
  • ip -6 route shows cached routes (ip -4 route doesn't)

glibc

More information about AI_ADDRCONFIG problems

Upstream bug reports for getaddrinfo

dhclient

Avahi

See Features/ZeroconfNetworking.

NetworkManager

Testing tools

Various applications

  • Assume that getaddrinfo() returns only one address and/or that such the first returned address works. See Networking/NameResolution.

Networking related standards

Contacts

See Networking#Contacts.