I've encountered some interesting behavior that intertwines ifconfig/tcpip with qnet.

The qnet stack is running, but it is not going over tcp/ip.  If I do an ifconfig fxp0 down on the node, qnet traffic 
appears to stop for a while, then begins again.

I noticed it when I did a

on -f node ifconfig down

qnet traffic stopped, but then after a few minutes came back up again.

I found a post where an IP address was being set with ifconfig that suggested the NIC may be reinitialized by this step.


Is this so?  Is there a way to prevent ifconfig from interfering with qnet?

Thanks
Kevin