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Date:      Sun, 1 Oct 2006 12:41:32 -0700
From:      David G Lawrence <dg@dglawrence.com>
To:        Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2
Message-ID:  <20061001194132.GQ14975@tnn.dglawrence.com>
In-Reply-To: <45200654.6030103@gneto.com>
References:  <451A1375.5080202@gneto.com> <45200654.6030103@gneto.com>

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> Just an observation.
> 
> All the boxes I've had this problem on have _two_ em interfaces. I have 
> never seen it on my boxes with just one em NIC.
> 
> The error is always em0 timeout - never em1 (I haven't seen any!)
> 
> Yesterday my local network got completely wacky, the gateway had em0 
> timeouts on the screen: but em0 is the _outside_ the windows box that I 
> had to reboot was attached to the inside on em1!
> 
> Could there be something wrong in the driver if we have more than one em 
> interface?

   A machine I have here that shows the problem has one fxp and one em and
the timeouts occur on both interfaces.

-DG

David G. Lawrence
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