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Date:      Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:46:24 -0500 
From:      Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>
To:        'Fred Clift' <fclift@verio.net>, Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp>
Cc:        pdeuskar@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: dev/em: Link is not up until 2 seconds after "ifconfig up"
Message-ID:  <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337035E409D@mail.sandvine.com>

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From: Fred Clift [mailto:fclift@verio.net]
> 
> On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Jun Kuriyama wrote:
> 
> > At Sun, 7 Dec 2003 20:09:41 -0600,
> >
> > Unfortunately, doing "ifconfig em1 ether 01:02:03:04:05:06" causes 1
> > or 2 seconds "no carrier", too.
> >
> 
> 
> As an additional datapoint - I've noticed that adding aliases 
> causes the
> same kind of delay four our use of the em driver- slows down 
> booting of
> large hosting boxes when you have a script to add each 
> customer one at a
> time and you have 600 :)
> 
> Fred

I wonder if setting WAIT_FOR_AUTO_NEG_DEFAULT to 0 in if_em.h
would help you.

--don



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