Re: Inconsistent NIC behavior

2013-07-03 Thread Barney Cordoba
On Mon, 7/1/13, Zaphod Beeblebrox zbee...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: Inconsistent NIC behavior To: Barney Cordoba barney_cord...@yahoo.com Date: Monday, July 1, 2013, 7:38 PM On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Barney Cordoba barney_cord

Inconsistent NIC behavior

2013-06-30 Thread Barney Cordoba
One particular annoyance with Freebsd is that different NICs have different dormant behavior. For example em and igb both will show the link being active or not on boot whether the interface has been UPed or not, while ixgbe and bce do not. I think it's a worthy goal to have NICs work the