Re: Strange e1000

[Patrick R. McManus]

[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.