fun with if_re

[Gerrit Kühn]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:24:00 +0900 Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote
about Re: fun with if_re:

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

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

It happens on both versions: the old one from 11th Dec 08 I still had, and
the new one I built with the patches you recommended about a week ago.
if_re is 1.151 2009/01/20 20:22:28 jkim, if_rlreg is 1.94 2009/01/20
20:22:28 jkim for the latter.


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