Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 08:33:32 -0400 From: gnn@freebsd.org To: Sebastien Petit <spe@phear.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SIOCGIFMEDIA problems Message-ID: <m2wtq3cnkz.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> In-Reply-To: <20050513111013.41905e73.spe@phear.org> References: <20050513111013.41905e73.spe@phear.org>
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At Fri, 13 May 2005 11:10:13 +0200, Sebastien Petit wrote: > > Hi -net hackers, > > A little question about SIOCGIFMEDIA ioctl: > > Somebody reports me that some interfaces (bge / em but anothers > perhaps) seem to discard packet(s) during SIOCGIFMEDIA ioctl, Is it > true and why ? At least in the case of the em driver it's because eventually em_init_locked() is called which re-initializes the whole device, including the memory buffers. It is unlikely that packets in the buffers would survive that :-) I suspect the same is true of bge. Later, George
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