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Date:      Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:23:00 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: re driver trobles (RELENG_5)
Message-ID:  <6.2.1.2.0.20050310092153.0368c780@64.7.153.2>
In-Reply-To: <20050310164007.W94235@woozle.rinet.ru>
References:  <20050310164007.W94235@woozle.rinet.ru>

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At 08:46 AM 10/03/2005, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
>whenever promisc mode turned on, renegotiating occurs, leading to 3 to 45
>(depending on STP settings on the switch) network unavailability.
>
>Moreover, some other re(4) setting changes seem to disturb link state
>unneededly (such as ifconfig re0 -vlanhwtag)


The em does this as well. Its most annoying when its connected to a switch 
with STP on it.  Even when you alias the interface it does this :(

         ---Mike 



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