On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 9:35:34 pm Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2012-Aug-22 15:35:01 -0400, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >Hmm. Perhaps we could use a debouncer to ignore "short" link flaps? Kind of > >gross (and OpenBSD doesn't do this). For now this change basically ignores > >link up events if they occur with 5 seconds of the link down event. The 5 is > >hardcoded which is kind of yuck. > > I'm also a bit concerned about this for similar reasons to adrian@. > We need to distinguish between short link outages caused by (eg) a > switch admin reconfiguring the switch (which needs the lease to be > re-checked) and those caused by broken NICs which report link status > changes when they are touched. Maybe an alternative is to just ignore > link flaps when they occur within a few seconds of a script_go(). > (And/or make the ignore timeout configurable). > > Apart from fxp(4), does anyone know how many NICs are similarly > broken? > > Does anyone know why this issue doesn't bite OpenBSD? Does it have > a work-around to avoid resetting the link, not report link status > changes or just no-one has noticed the issue?
To be clear, I don't like this hack. If there is a way to fix this in the driver (e.g. not report the link state changes during a reset) that would be far preferable. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
