Spooky em INTEL PRO 1000 driver?

[David Raistrick]

On Mon, 26 May 2003, Christoffer Pio wrote:


> x345 2U machine; the x345 comes with two on-board INTEL 100/1000 mb nics
> which uses the em driver. However, whenever I "up" one of the nics,
> there is a slight delay of a few seconds before the command
> completes, also the nic is not operating in up state yet,
> appr. 30 seconds passes before traffic actually can pass

FWIW, I've seen this every time I up or down an em nic, with every
em-supported card I've tested. (and every version of em since the first
up through 4.8-R or so.	)

No testing lately, though.

...david



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