fun with if_re

[Gerrit Kühn]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:28:04 +0900 Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote
about Re: fun with if_re:

PY> > I did build new nanobsd images with these patches meanwhile and will
PY> > start using them today. However, as it has worked without problems
PY> > for weeks with the buggy version before, I will not be able to say
PY> > if it is really working until next month or so. Or do you know any
PY> > method to reliably
PY> 
PY> That's fine.


I had to reboot some of the machines meanwhile and could do some further
testing. One strange thing I noticed is that the re-interfaces often do
not come up in a working state after rebooting. Strangely, I see
network traffic floating around via tcpdump, but not even ping works.
This state often goes away when playing around with the interface
(sometimes ifconfig down/up helps, sometimes disabling some of the
additional features like txc/rxc), but I cannot make out a reproducible
behaviour so far. When the interface leaves this strange state it seems to
work fine afterwards. Any clues?


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  Gerrit