From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sky2 poweroff screws up my network
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 08:14:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100519081440.2883e71d@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100519143208.GL3900@ihatethathostname.lab.bos.redhat.com>
On Wed, 19 May 2010 10:32:08 -0400
Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> I've noticed a rather strange problem with the onboard sky2 on one of my
> machines. When I halt -p it, my router stops passing traffic completely
> until I kill the power to the machine entirely. If it's just been shut
> down with halt -p, it recovers immediately after turning it back on,
> while it's in BIOS.
>
> Any thoughts on this? My guess is its because the sky2 shutdown puts the
> nic to sleep and when the host is off, bad things happen.
>
> regards, Kyle
The sky2 shutdown puts the chip in Wake On Lan state; this
does a separate link speed negotiation (100 mbit) which may be a problem
if speed duplex is forced.
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2010-05-19 14:32 sky2 poweroff screws up my network Kyle McMartin
2010-05-19 15:14 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-05-19 15:34 ` Kyle McMartin
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