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Date:      Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:48:23 -0300 (ADT)
From:      User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org>
To:        Atanas <atanas@asd.aplus.net>
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Michael Vince <mv@thebeastie.org>
Subject:   Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...
Message-ID:  <20060630174632.L1103@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Atanas wrote:

> A workaround is to power both of the systems down and then power them up. 
> This however cannot be done remotely and in case there were IP aliases, they 
> still don't get any traffic.

see 'arping' ... great little tool, solved all my problems as far as 
moving around IPs ...

> I still have many 4.x based machines, and both em issues (the card reset 
> on each alias and the arp packets not been sent when going down) were 
> present when I was doing my tests.

Right, what version of 4.x?  The one that I have working is from ~Feb 2005 
.. if I were to upgrade that to the latest 4-STABLE, it would break like 
the rest ... the older 4.x had a different em driver in the kernel then 
the newer one ...

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