6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

[Oliver Brandmueller]

Hi.

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 04:19:55PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> > You'll still see impact -- that is, no packets flowing.  The
> > reason things are recoverable is solely because of the retry
> > functionality for layer 2 packets...
> 
> You are, of course, right. What I meant is: these timeouts should
> not lead to freezing of all network communications for a couple
> of minutes like me and some other people seem to experience.

port fast on a switchport is not in all cases a desirable option, apart 
from the fact that you probably don't have the acces and choice in some 
places to do so. Withtout this this means at least 10-20 seconds without 
network on some switches until the port is up again on theswitch after 
it went down!

- Oliver

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