From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 27 15:17:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D36E316A407 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:17:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ob@gruft.de) Received: from obh.snafu.de (obh.snafu.de [213.73.92.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0630143D5A for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:17:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ob@gruft.de) Received: from ob by obh.snafu.de with local (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GSbAY-000HTE-6O for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:17:54 +0200 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:17:54 +0200 From: Oliver Brandmueller To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060927151754.GI22229@e-Gitt.NET> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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> <20060927135251.GA13222@icarus.home.lan> <20060927141955.GB84976@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060927141955.GB84976@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: Oliver Brandmueller Subject: Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:17:55 -0000 Hi. On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 04:19:55PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > You'll still see impact -- that is, no packets flowing. The > > reason things are recoverable is solely because of the retry > > functionality for layer 2 packets... > > You are, of course, right. What I meant is: these timeouts should > not lead to freezing of all network communications for a couple > of minutes like me and some other people seem to experience. port fast on a switchport is not in all cases a desirable option, apart from the fact that you probably don't have the acces and choice in some places to do so. Withtout this this means at least 10-20 seconds without network on some switches until the port is up again on theswitch after it went down! - Oliver -- | Oliver Brandmueller | Offenbacher Str. 1 | Germany D-14197 Berlin | | Fon +49-172-3130856 | Fax +49-172-3145027 | WWW: http://the.addict.de/ | | Ich bin das Internet. Sowahr ich Gott helfe. | | Eine gewerbliche Nutzung aller enthaltenen Adressen ist nicht gestattet! |