From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 20 06:04:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 624B816A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:04:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1CCA43D2D for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:04:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from adelaide.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42BD284A69; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:34:54 +0930 (CST) Received: by adelaide.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 500331782F; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:04:54 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:04:54 +1000 From: Greg Lehey To: Adam Smith Message-ID: <20050420060454.GA1178@adelaide.lemis.com> References: <20050414064038.GA3083@internode.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050414064038.GA3083@internode.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Enabling Gratuitous ARP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:04:58 -0000 On Thursday, 14 April 2005 at 16:10:39 +0930, Adam Smith wrote: > Hi, > > In a particular network scenario we have, swapping an ethernet link between > two FreeBSD machines with a different MAC is proving to be a problem. > > We have discovered that in order to make this work we will need to enable > gratuitous ARP. Does anyone know how to turn this feature on? Heh. Yes, I've run into this problem too, and with your ADSL2 DSLAMs at that. I'm still investigating. Call me next week if we haven't resolved it by then. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers