From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 30 20:48:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4371916A416 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:48:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E4AE43D46 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:48:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D40D9291AFB; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:48:20 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 96261-01; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:48:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 598C1291AFA; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:48:19 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 948F23DFBA; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:48:23 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E3C23D95F; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:48:23 -0300 (ADT) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:48:23 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd To: Atanas In-Reply-To: <44A57B71.6020201@asd.aplus.net> Message-ID: <20060630174632.L1103@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060628185426.M43909@ganymede.hub.org> <20060628225239.GA93265@dan.emsphone.com> <44A3394C.4090209@asd.aplus.net> <44A3817F.4030105@thebeastie.org> <20060629092154.GE742@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060629083130.X1229@ganymede.hub.org> <44A4A02A.9060802@thebeastie.org> <20060630012615.Q1103@ganymede.hub.org> <44A57B71.6020201@asd.aplus.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Peter Jeremy , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Michael Vince Subject: Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:48:26 -0000 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 ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664