em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

[Francisco Reyes]

Atanas writes:

> I have some newer machines with 2 Broadcom chips on-board. I plan to 
> give them a try at some point in the future, but I'm not sure how stable 
> the bge driver


For us they have been a problem. Primarily because it causes all kinds of 
freezing/crashes when having an IPMI board. I believe it has performed ok in 
machines where we don't have an IPMI card.