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Date:      Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:48:51 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: re driver trobles (RELENG_5)
Message-ID:  <20050311114805.W44064@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050310092153.0368c780@64.7.153.2>
References:  <20050310164007.W94235@woozle.rinet.ru> <6.2.1.2.0.20050310092153.0368c780@64.7.153.2>

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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote:

MT> At 08:46 AM 10/03/2005, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
MT> > whenever promisc mode turned on, renegotiating occurs, leading to 3 to 45
MT> > (depending on STP settings on the switch) network unavailability.
MT> > 
MT> > Moreover, some other re(4) setting changes seem to disturb link state
MT> > unneededly (such as ifconfig re0 -vlanhwtag)
MT> 
MT> 
MT> The em does this as well. Its most annoying when its connected to a switch
MT> with STP on it.  Even when you alias the interface it does this :(

Hmm, we do not see this behaviour on em gigabit on RELENG_4... 

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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