Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:15:00 -0700 From: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Bug or Design limitation?? Message-ID: <2a41acea0609261615j18437fd9yc5e9ca823f2aab38@mail.gmail.com>
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Our test group just ran into something I hadnt noticed before. Take a system and put in two different multiport NIC boards, one older (PCI-X) and one new PCI-E board. Load a driver that only recognizes the first board. It will show em0, em1, em2, em3, the new ports will be none's. Unload that driver and then load a newer one that recognizes both boards. What you'd expect to see is em0....em7. But what you actually see is two sets of em0 - em3! Our test lead noticed this because it broke some scripts of his. Now, 'ifconfig' gets it right and still presents you with 0-7. If you load the newer driver first then of course all is correct. So, the question is, is this a bug? Clearly the enumerated data from the older driver loaded is staying around. I do not know how this kernel data is handled, so could/should it be removed and isnt or what? Cheers, Jack
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