From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 28 14:03:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05698 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 14:03:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05534 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 14:02:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mdtancsa@sentex.net) Received: (from mdtancsa@localhost) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.6/8.6.9) id RAA23775; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 17:02:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike D Tancsa Message-Id: <199804282102.RAA23775@granite.sentex.net> Subject: Re: How to reset an fxp ethernet interface In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Apr 28, 98 01:52:38 pm" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 17:02:15 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Mike D Tancsa wrote: > # ifconfig fxp0 down > # ifconfig fxp0 up > > Usually does the trick. Hi, Yes, it normally does, but the effect is not the same (from the switches point of view). There is something different about a soft reboot (from the switch's perspective) than doing a down and up :-( ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message