em network issues

Jack Vogel jfvogel at gmail.com
Thu Oct 19 18:57:54 UTC 2006


On 10/19/06, Remko Lodder <remko at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Kip Macy wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Jack Vogel wrote:
> >> I'm a bit confused from the way you worded this, do you have watchdogs
> >> with em, or you use em to avoid them?
> >
> > I have watchdogs with the current (post vendor update) em driver, but
> > not with an older (pre vendor update) version of it.
> >
>
> Same here!
>
> Didn't had the problem prior to the update, after the update it
> started doing watchdog timeouts, occassionaly the interface goes
> up/down after the watchdog error.  I did not spot this on my other
> servers yet, but the traffic passing the if_em interface is not that
> much (just normal webtraffic, mail traffic etc).
>
> cheers,
> remko

LOL, you arent helping, i need to know WHAT CVS deltas work vs dont,
in other words, which delta in the REL_ENG_6 stream broke things??
If you quantify what 'the update' means that might help me, was this
the 6.2 BETA or what?

Thanks,

Jack


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