Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: BUG: in 2.6.0-test4-bk8 and bk9 involving handling of ethernet interfaces | Date | 8 Sep 2003 21:41:26 GMT |
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In article <3F5B87E2.6040501@open.org>, Hal <pshbro@open.org> wrote: | When i was finishing up using a cross over cable to transfer data from | my desktop to my labtop I notied an odd thing. After I ifconfig eth0 | down to close the interface on my desktop runing 2.6.0-test4-bk8 it | froze all my ttys and ptys. I upgraded to bk9 and got the same thing. | | To repeat the bug one will need two computers and a cross over cable. | Connect the two computers, ifconfig the interfaces on each computer. | Give them both an ip and then ifconfig up them both. Now to get the bug | ifconfig the interface on the computer runing a 2.6 kernel down and | hopefully there will be a system freeze. | | For more information im using a Net Gear fa311 ethernet NIC with the | Natsemi ethernet drivers.
Did you config as nodes on a whole network or use point-to-point config? -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - 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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