Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Apr 2003 12:02:14 -0500 | From | "Patrick R. McManus" <> | Subject | Re: Strange e1000 |
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[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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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