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From: David G Lawrence <dg@dglawrence.com>
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Subject: Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2
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> Just an observation.
> 
> All the boxes I've had this problem on have _two_ em interfaces. I have 
> never seen it on my boxes with just one em NIC.
> 
> The error is always em0 timeout - never em1 (I haven't seen any!)
> 
> Yesterday my local network got completely wacky, the gateway had em0 
> timeouts on the screen: but em0 is the _outside_ the windows box that I 
> had to reboot was attached to the inside on em1!
> 
> Could there be something wrong in the driver if we have more than one em 
> interface?

   A machine I have here that shows the problem has one fxp and one em and
the timeouts occur on both interfaces.

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