fun with if_re

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:19:10AM +0100, Gerrit K?hn wrote:
> 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?
> 

Does this happen on latest if_re.c/if_rlreg.h? I guess jkim fixed
this type of problem in r187483. If that have no effect please let
me know.