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Date:      Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:16:47 -0700
From:      David G Lawrence <dg@dglawrence.com>
To:        Igor Robul <igorr@speechpro.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2
Message-ID:  <20060929081647.GJ14975@tnn.dglawrence.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060929080530.GA18872@sysadm.stc>
References:  <451A1375.5080202@gneto.com> <20060927071538.GF22229@e-Gitt.NET> <451A4189.5020906@samsco.org> <20060927152824.GJ22229@e-Gitt.NET> <20060927155553.GB14563@icarus.home.lan> <20060927155904.GM22229@e-Gitt.NET> <451AA7B1.5080202@samsco.org> <20060929072741.GH14975@tnn.dglawrence.com> <20060929080530.GA18872@sysadm.stc>

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> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:27:41AM -0700, David G Lawrence wrote:
> >    Attached is a simple user program that will immediately cause pretty much
> > all of the network drivers (at least the ones I own) to stop working and
> > get watchdog timeouts.
> > 
> > WARNING: This program will kill the network on your 6.x server. Do not run 
> > this on a production machine unless you are on the console and can ctrl-C
> > it!
> I have tried this program on my workstation and I have not got any
> timeouts, network works good.
> sysadm:~>uname -a
> FreeBSD sysadm.stc 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #4: Fri Aug 11 14:11:18

   Is this build date also about the same date that you cvsup'd the sources?

> MSD 2006     igorr@sysadm.stc:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SYSADM  amd64
> sysadm:~> ifconfig 
> nve0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet6 fe80::2e0:81ff:fe55:bc54%nve0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
>         inet 192.168.2.26 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
>         inet 192.168.2.55 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.2.55
>         ether 00:e0:81:55:bc:54
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active

   Is this a UP machine or MP machine?

-DG

David G. Lawrence
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