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    SubjectRe: Strange e1000
    [Jeff Garzik: Apr 04 10:48]
    > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 03:45:25PM +0100, Justin Cormack wrote:
    > > On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 14:41, Paul Rolland wrote:
    > > > Hello,
    > > >
    > > > > when I load the e1000 module, my NIC is recognized. Then, "pump -i
    > > > > eth0" is called (DHCP-Client), the message "e1000: eth0 NIC
    > > > > Link is Up
    > > > > 1000 Mbps Full Duplex" appears and after some time I get the message
    > > > > "operation failed".
    > > > >
    > > > > When I sleep some time (currently 20 seconds) before doing
    > > > > the "pump",
    > > > > everything works as expected.
    > > > >
    [..]

    > > It is probably something like this. For some reason the managed Netgear
    > > switches take a very long time to do anything. Log into the switch and
    > > watch the port status while this happens to confirm. I actually can't
    > > netboot off these switches because if this. Hopefully Netgear will come
    > > up with a fix.
    >
    > In another thread, Scott Feldman (one of the e1000 team) asked if
    > spanning trees were enabled on the switch. That could be a potential
    > cause.

    I can confirm this is isolated to the managed netgear switches.. I
    started the other thread jeff mentions and, just this morning, cobbled
    together a network without them and had no problems. I'll see if I can
    create a setup without spanning tree to test that explicitly.
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