fun with if_re

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:41:43AM +0100, Gerrit K?hn wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ok, try attached patch.
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