From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 5 19:40:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 033BF16A4CE for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:40:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u46n208.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1655943D48 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:40:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7892B3536A; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:37:18 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C407347DD; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:37:18 -0400 (AST) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:37:18 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Sreekanth In-Reply-To: <000001c3d3c6$d546d400$ae28a8c0@SREELAPTOP> Message-ID: <20040105233630.U28998@ganymede.hub.org> References: <000001c3d3c6$d546d400$ae28a8c0@SREELAPTOP> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: 'Barney Wolff' cc: 'Luigi Rizzo' cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Odd behaviour on em0 device in -stable ... I think ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 03:40:56 -0000 On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Sreekanth wrote: > The "Link is up" message can be explained by the fact the device is > reset everytime an alias is added or removed.Network hanging is > explained by the spanning tree protocol working(It prevents the port > from going into Forward state for around 20 seconds) is there a reason why the em driver does this, and the fxp doesn't? or, at least, why the em driver takes longer? it only appears to be the server with em devices that does it ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664