Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:56:22 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2 Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.0.20060927095043.17915d48@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <20060927132555.GB83422@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <451A1375.5080202@gneto.com> <20060927071538.GF22229@e-Gitt.NET> <451A4189.5020906@samsco.org> <20060927094509.GB75104@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <451A71B6.6040201@crc.u-strasbg.fr> <20060927132555.GB83422@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
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At 09:25 AM 9/27/2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
>Hi!
>
>On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:42:30PM +0200, Philippe Pegon wrote:
>
> > it's just a me too. On our ftp server (ftp8.fr.freebsd.org), sometimes
> > we see some "watchdog timeout" in the log with a bge card, but maybe it's
> > not the same problem... :
>
>As far as I know the watchdog timeouts are _supposed_ to be
>mostly harmless, i.e. recoverable.
If it up / downs the interface, it can be painful depending on your
setup. In one of the colos I dont have control over, the switch port
will block for 15 seconds for Spanning Tree when the interface
transitions like that. Even in cases where this does not happen, a
1-2 second network outage can play havoc with some applications.
---Mike
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