Why does the vmxnet3 driver shipped with RHEL 6 update 2 drops small UDP packets?
Issue
- After upgrading from RHEL6.1 to 6.2,loadbalancer does not work correctly.Before the upgrade only one LB was active (seen with
ipvsadm -L
) and used the virtual IP configured for the service. After the upgrade both LB are active (seen withipvsadm -L
) an both show the virtual IP for the configured service. - TFTP transfer times out after upgrading the kernel to RHEL 6 update 2
- After upgrading to RHEL6.2, UDP or heartbeat packets are getting dropped when using
vmxnet3
driver vmxnet3
update in RHEL 6.2 broke small UDP packet transmission
Environment
-
RHEL 6 update 2
-
kernel-2.6.32-220.el6.i686 / kernel-2.6.32-220.2.1.el6.x86_64 / kernel-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64
-
vmxnet3
1.1.18.0-k - Vmware ESX Host
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