[BUGS] em(4) owners, be careful with the upgrade to 7.1

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Thu Aug 14 11:20:16 EST 2008


This is a heads-up for everybody who uses the Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit
Ethernet adapter. As described on the mailinglists (See
http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=freebsd-net&id=2793391)
there is a chance your em(4) driver will be changed into the igb(4)
driver with the upgrade to 7.1

So if you have a card which is affected (See URL), make sure you
take extra care of your /etc/rc.conf and the shift in the order of
the network cards with the update to 7.1.

Oh and euhm... no, there is no release date for 7.1 available yet.
But you are warned :-)

Edwin
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