dev/em: Link is not up until 2 seconds after "ifconfig up"

[Fred Clift]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Jun Kuriyama wrote:

> At Sun, 7 Dec 2003 20:09:41 -0600,
>
> Unfortunately, doing "ifconfig em1 ether 01:02:03:04:05:06" causes 1
> or 2 seconds "no carrier", too.
>


As an additional datapoint - I've noticed that adding aliases causes the
same kind of delay four our use of the em driver- slows down booting of
large hosting boxes when you have a script to add each customer one at a
time and you have 600 :)

Fred

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