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Date:      Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:45:25 -0400 (AST)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Stephen Bader <steveb@mercury.jorsm.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /kernel: em0: Link is Down
Message-ID:  <20040105164415.M28998@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040105092029.Y75732-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
References:  <20040105092029.Y75732-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>

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On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Stephen Bader wrote:

> Just to verify, I would assume you've checked the following?:
>
> 	- Bad Cable - May not have appeared until it got loaded
> 	- Auto Negotiate Issues (check duplex) - Very common
> 	- Force to 10mbps to see if it still happens
> 	- For to half duplex in both 10 & 100 mbps
> 	- Different physical port on the switch
>
> I haven't seen any issues on this list with the em driver, but I may be
> wrong. I don't have em cards, so other than the above, I can't offer much.

Actually, I'm having odd problems with my em ethernet where its not
allowing me to re-assign IPs from another server over to it, as if the
appropriate ARP isn't being sent out ... but re-assigning it to a server
with fxp0 devices works like a charm ...

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664



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