em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

[User Freebsd]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Mike Tancsa wrote:

> At 01:20 PM 08/07/2006, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>> >
>> > Ah, I see. Thanks for the insight.
>> > How about the attached patch?
>> >
>> I've been working on this problem for Mike Tancsa about a year ago,
>> and my fix was naive.  I ended up not committing it because I found
>> that it broke something else, but I don't remember what exactly now.
>> Ahh, I seem to remember now -- setting a different MAC address was
>> not programmed into a hardware with my patch applied.
>
>
> For my uses, this was a non issue.  Having STP block for 20 seconds because I 
> add or remove an alias made it kind of a non issue.

Not sure what STP is, but I've not noticed any blocking on removing an 
alias, only on adding one ...

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