em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

[Mike Tancsa]

At 01:20 PM 08/07/2006, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >
> > Ah, I see. Thanks for the insight.
> > How about the attached patch?
> >
>I've been working on this problem for Mike Tancsa about a year ago,
>and my fix was naive.  I ended up not committing it because I found
>that it broke something else, but I don't remember what exactly now.
>Ahh, I seem to remember now -- setting a different MAC address was
>not programmed into a hardware with my patch applied.


For my uses, this was a non issue.  Having STP block for 20 seconds 
because I add or remove an alias made it kind of a non issue.

         ---Mike