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From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
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Subject: Re: Odd behaviour on em0 device in -stable ... I think ...
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:36:43PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> One of the odd things I'm finding with the em0 device, over the fxp0
> device on the other machines, is that if/when I do alias (or -alias), the
> network hangs for a couple of seconds, and the following gets generated in
> /var/log/messages:
> 
> Jan  4 16:09:17 neptune /kernel: em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
> 
> as if it brought the device down, and then back up again ... is that
> normal?

If by "normal" you meant do other people see the same, the answer is yes.

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