Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:17:54 +0200 From: Oliver Brandmueller <ob@e-Gitt.NET> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2 Message-ID: <20060927151754.GI22229@e-Gitt.NET> In-Reply-To: <20060927141955.GB84976@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> <20060927135251.GA13222@icarus.home.lan> <20060927141955.GB84976@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
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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! |
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