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[SOLVED-ish] Syslog Keeps Repeating "Received packet from invalid interface."

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I am assuming this is my fault because I defined 2 bridges via the "go" file so that my pfSense VM is able to have an in0 & out0 network port but wanted to post this and see what others thought. I have disabled the bridge in unRAID's web gui and put the following in my "go" file:

 

# Start Bridges
brctl addbr out0
brctl addbr in0
brctl stp out0 on
brctl stp in0 on
brctl addif out0 eth2
brctl addif in0 eth1
ifconfig eth1 up
ifconfig eth2 up
ifconfig out0 up
ifconfig in0 up

 

With recent beta's I noticed the following being repeated:

Mar 10 17:04:34 Pithos avahi-daemon[2237]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar 10 17:06:11 Pithos avahi-daemon[2237]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar 10 17:07:49 Pithos avahi-daemon[2237]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar 10 17:08:05 Pithos avahi-daemon[2237]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar 10 17:08:34 Pithos avahi-daemon[2237]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar 10 17:12:45 Pithos avahi-daemon[2237]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar 10 17:13:14 Pithos avahi-daemon[2237]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar 10 17:14:50 Pithos avahi-daemon[2237]: Received packet from invalid interface.

 

I am sort of hoping that this is unRAID's way of saying you're not using the standard bridge option so I am going to throw an error in the log? Is there anyway to test if this is the case? Also, I haven't noticed anything weird happening to my internet or unRAID data speeds but could this be affecting either of those?

I'm also seeing the same issue.

 

Mar  8 01:13:46 Server avahi-daemon[15039]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar  8 01:13:50 Server avahi-daemon[15039]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar  8 01:13:50 Server avahi-daemon[15039]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar  8 01:13:51 Server avahi-daemon[15039]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar  8 01:13:51 Server avahi-daemon[15039]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar  8 01:13:53 Server avahi-daemon[15039]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar  8 01:13:53 Server avahi-daemon[15039]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar  8 01:14:00 Server avahi-daemon[15039]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar  8 01:14:00 Server avahi-daemon[15039]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar  8 01:14:01 Server avahi-daemon[15039]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar  8 01:14:01 Server avahi-daemon[15039]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar  8 01:14:03 Server avahi-daemon[15039]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar  8 01:14:03 Server avahi-daemon[15039]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar  8 01:14:10 Server avahi-daemon[15039]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar  8 01:14:10 Server avahi-daemon[15039]: Received packet from invalid interface.

 

My bridge setup is identical to archedrafts's and I have tried installing a completely "vanilla" unraid with no plugins or dockers and can reproduce this by entering the brctl & ifconfig commands via telnet after boot.  The error occurs even if I don't have any KVM VMs running .

I am assuming this is my fault because I defined 2 bridges via the "go" file so that my pfSense VM is able to have an in0 & out0 network port but wanted to post this and see what others thought. I have disabled the bridge in unRAID's web gui and put the following in my "go" file:

 

# Start Bridges
brctl addbr out0
brctl addbr in0
brctl stp out0 on
brctl stp in0 on
brctl addif out0 eth2
brctl addif in0 eth1
ifconfig eth1 up
ifconfig eth2 up
ifconfig out0 up
ifconfig in0 up

 

With recent beta's I noticed the following being repeated:

Mar 10 17:04:34 Pithos avahi-daemon[2237]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar 10 17:06:11 Pithos avahi-daemon[2237]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar 10 17:07:49 Pithos avahi-daemon[2237]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar 10 17:08:05 Pithos avahi-daemon[2237]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar 10 17:08:34 Pithos avahi-daemon[2237]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar 10 17:12:45 Pithos avahi-daemon[2237]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar 10 17:13:14 Pithos avahi-daemon[2237]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar 10 17:14:50 Pithos avahi-daemon[2237]: Received packet from invalid interface.

 

I am sort of hoping that this is unRAID's way of saying you're not using the standard bridge option so I am going to throw an error in the log? Is there anyway to test if this is the case? Also, I haven't noticed anything weird happening to my internet or unRAID data speeds but could this be affecting either of those?

 

So if you create an unRAID bridge (no manually created bridges via brctl), this issue doesn't occur, but after creating custom bridges, you both can see these messages and it doesn't matter if you have the Docker or Libvirt service running or not?

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So if you create an unRAID bridge (no manually created bridges via brctl), this issue doesn't occur, but after creating custom bridges, you both can see these messages and it doesn't matter if you have the Docker or Libvirt service running or not?

 

Correct, If I use unRAID's web gui to create a bridge, I do not get a message. It only happens after I manually specify the bridges.

So if you create an unRAID bridge (no manually created bridges via brctl), this issue doesn't occur, but after creating custom bridges, you both can see these messages and it doesn't matter if you have the Docker or Libvirt service running or not?

 

Correct, If I use unRAID's web gui to create a bridge, I do not get a message. It only happens after I manually specify the bridges.

Ok, can't look into this right now, but I know eric has some plans for making this a little better. 

That's exactly the situation Jon, I tried without libvrt and docker running and on a completely new Unraid boot without even setting an array up.  Starts to happen as soon as I issue ifconfig bridge0 up.  Does not occur when using the Unraid bridge feature.

Ok, thanks for confirming. Will look into this more after the next release or two.

  • 4 weeks later...
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So I changed all my in0 bridges in my go file to br0, changed all my VM's to br0, and then message goes away. I suppose I will mark this as "solved-ish". The issue is gone but it would be nice if unRAID had more robust networking options.

  • 2 weeks later...

So I changed all my in0 bridges in my go file to br0, changed all my VM's to br0, and then message goes away. I suppose I will mark this as "solved-ish". The issue is gone but it would be nice if unRAID had more robust networking options.

 

My config as far as I can tell is the same as archedraft's.  Following a server reboot, I am now seeing this happen again.  Seems a bit random as sometimes it appears and sometimes it doesn't so I was wondering if it had anything to do with the speed at which the bridges come up.

  • 4 months later...

Any news on this?

 

I only have two network cards (eth0 and eth1) and I use the unRAID network settings to create br0

 

In my go file I have this:

 

brctl addbr br1
brctl stp br1 on
brctl addif br1 eth1
ifconfig eth1 up
ifconfig br1 up

 

It seems to work fine and I can remove the error by killing avahi:

/etc/rc.d/rc.avahidaemon stop

But I would rather find a solution to understand the problem instead of a hack

 

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Depends on what you are trying to accomplish but what I ended up doing was removing all the bridge settings from my "go" file. Then I followed this guide form JonP on how to hide my second NIC from unRAID. Then I was able to pass-through my NIC's to a pfSense VM. All the  "Received packet from invalid interface." messages went away.

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=39499.msg368812#msg368812

The avahi message your seeing is harmless and is suppressed in the latest 6.1 release candidate.

  • 2 months later...

The avahi message your seeing is harmless and is suppressed in the latest 6.1 release candidate.

Did this end up happening?  I'm on 6.1.3 and still have tons of these in my logs.  No manually-created bridges, just a few Docker containers.

Nov  1 01:42:56 Hyperion avahi-daemon[12881]: Received packet from invalid interface.

Nov  1 01:48:01 Hyperion avahi-daemon[12881]: Received packet from invalid interface.

Nov  1 01:48:01 Hyperion avahi-daemon[12881]: Received packet from invalid interface.

Nov  1 01:48:02 Hyperion avahi-daemon[12881]: Received packet from invalid interface.

Nov  1 01:48:04 Hyperion avahi-daemon[12881]: Received packet from invalid interface.

Nov  1 01:48:08 Hyperion avahi-daemon[12881]: Received packet from invalid interface.

Nov  1 01:53:11 Hyperion avahi-daemon[12881]: Received packet from invalid interface.

Nov  1 01:53:12 Hyperion avahi-daemon[12881]: Received packet from invalid interface.

Nov  1 01:53:13 Hyperion avahi-daemon[12881]: Received packet from invalid interface.

Nov  1 01:53:15 Hyperion avahi-daemon[12881]: Received packet from invalid interface.

Nov  1 01:53:19 Hyperion avahi-daemon[12881]: Received packet from invalid interface.

Nov  1 01:58:22 Hyperion avahi-daemon[12881]: Received packet from invalid interface.

Nov  1 01:58:22 Hyperion avahi-daemon[12881]: Received packet from invalid interface.

Nov  1 01:58:23 Hyperion avahi-daemon[12881]: Received packet from invalid interface.

Nov  1 01:58:25 Hyperion avahi-daemon[12881]: Received packet from invalid interface.

Nov  1 01:58:29 Hyperion avahi-daemon[12881]: Received packet from invalid interface.

The avahi message your seeing is harmless and is suppressed in the latest 6.1 release candidate.

Did this end up happening?  I'm on 6.1.3 and still have tons of these in my logs.  No manually-created bridges, just a few Docker containers.

 

AFAIK yes it did, I haven't seen any of these messages for quite a time..

  • 3 months later...

I am still seeing these repeated messages on 6.1.8

 

Was there any solution?

The message:

 

Feb 24 09:02:32 tower avahi-daemon[30960]: Received packet from invalid interface.

 

seems to be coming from the Plex docker when running "docker logs -f plex"

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