/kernel: em0: Link is Down

Marc G. Fournier scrappy at hub.org
Mon Jan 5 12:49:04 PST 2004


On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Stephen Bader wrote:

> Just to verify, I would assume you've checked the following?:
>
> 	- Bad Cable - May not have appeared until it got loaded
> 	- Auto Negotiate Issues (check duplex) - Very common
> 	- Force to 10mbps to see if it still happens
> 	- For to half duplex in both 10 & 100 mbps
> 	- Different physical port on the switch
>
> I haven't seen any issues on this list with the em driver, but I may be
> wrong. I don't have em cards, so other than the above, I can't offer much.

Actually, I'm having odd problems with my em ethernet where its not
allowing me to re-assign IPs from another server over to it, as if the
appropriate ARP isn't being sent out ... but re-assigning it to a server
with fxp0 devices works like a charm ...

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