6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

[Scott Long]

Martin Nilsson wrote:
> Just an observation.
> 
> All the boxes I've had this problem on have _two_ em interfaces. I have 
> never seen it on my boxes with just one em NIC.
> 
> The error is always em0 timeout - never em1 (I haven't seen any!)
> 
> Yesterday my local network got completely wacky, the gateway had em0 
> timeouts on the screen: but em0 is the _outside_ the windows box that I 
> had to reboot was attached to the inside on em1!
> 
> Could there be something wrong in the driver if we have more than one em 
> interface?
> 
> Regards,
> Martin

Multiple instances of the driver have no knowledge of each other.
Nothing between them is shared.  Even if they share an interrupt,
it is a detail that is hidden.

Scott