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 -- | Oliver Brandmueller | Offenbacher Str. 1 | Germany D-14197 Berlin | | Fon +49-172-3130856 | Fax +49-172-3145027 | WWW: http://the.addict.de/ | | Ich bin das Internet. Sowahr ich Gott helfe. | | Eine gewerbliche Nutzung aller enthaltenen Adressen ist nicht gestattet! | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
