6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

[Igor Robul]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:27:41AM -0700, David G Lawrence wrote:
>    Attached is a simple user program that will immediately cause pretty much
> all of the network drivers (at least the ones I own) to stop working and
> get watchdog timeouts.
> 
> WARNING: This program will kill the network on your 6.x server. Do not run 
> this on a production machine unless you are on the console and can ctrl-C
> it!
I have tried this program on my workstation and I have not got any
timeouts, network works good.
sysadm:~>uname -a
FreeBSD sysadm.stc 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #4: Fri Aug 11 14:11:18
MSD 2006     igorr at sysadm.stc:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SYSADM  amd64
sysadm:~> ifconfig 
nve0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::2e0:81ff:fe55:bc54%nve0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
        inet 192.168.2.26 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
        inet 192.168.2.55 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.2.55
        ether 00:e0:81:55:bc:54
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active