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Subject: Re: vlans changed?
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Mike Wolman wrote:
> 
> I had major grief with the em driver and vlans,
> i have found by tcpdumping on the em0 interface
> actually causes more problems.
> 
> there are some more posts about this a couple of months ago,
> 
> my resolution was to swap the em card for an fxp instead as
> the box was in production and i didnt have other options.
> 
> Mike.

Yea.. I had that problem to. But this is a different box, and it was just "not 
working" rather than crashing. It does use a bpf constantly though.. hmm.

I've got about 50,000 pps coming into this box from a cisco SPAN session, and 
using a 100bT card isn't really an option.

-Charlie