Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:36:19 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: David G Lawrence <dg@dglawrence.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, jhb@freebsd.org, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>, ob@e-Gitt.NET Subject: Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2 Message-ID: <451E1063.60401@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20060929104427.GN14975@tnn.dglawrence.com> References: <20060929072741.GH14975@tnn.dglawrence.com> <E1GTFkg-0001kP-SH@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> <20060929104427.GN14975@tnn.dglawrence.com>
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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. >> >>I am runnign this on a single processor machine with an SMP kernel and >>it does not have any effect. I dont tink I have any single processor machines >>running a non SMP kernel to try it on though. Not particularly helpful I know. I'll > > > Actually, I think it is helpful to know that the program only has an > effect on some machines. We just need to figure out what the common > denominator is. > > Are you enabling an option, like IPv6, that puts Giant over the network stack? Scott
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