From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 7 17:17:54 2006 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> X-Original-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3486C16A420 for <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org>; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:17:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@xecu.net) Received: from mss2.myactv.net (mss2.myactv.net [24.89.0.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABB3D43D70 for <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org>; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:17:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@xecu.net) Received: (qmail 7043 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2006 17:17:47 -0000 Received: from dyn-24-13.myactv.net (HELO ?192.168.1.86?) (24.89.24.13) by mss2.myactv.net with SMTP; 7 Mar 2006 17:17:47 -0000 Message-ID: <440DC036.3050009@xecu.net> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:17:42 -0500 From: Christopher McGee <chris@xecu.net> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> References: <440876F1.6050804@xecu.net> <20060304211526.GD3304@comp.chem.msu.su> <440C6A5C.2030003@xecu.net> <20060306184731.GD53752@comp.chem.msu.su> <440C8F7C.6070201@xecu.net> <20060306213415.GA61210@comp.chem.msu.su> <20060306215824.GA1102@cell.sick.ru> In-Reply-To: <20060306215824.GA1102@cell.sick.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Carp on vlan with em driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD <freebsd-net.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net>, <mailto:freebsd-net-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-net@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-net-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net>, <mailto:freebsd-net-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:17:54 -0000 Gleb Smirnoff wrote: >On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:34:16AM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: >Y> > Is this something that will be applied to 5.x - RELEASE at some point? >Y> >Y> 5.5 will be the last RELEASE on the 5.x line, so it's the last >Y> chance now. Alas, I don't feel myself competent enough just to >Y> apply this to RELENG_5 instantly because I haven't really followed >Y> the development of RELENG_5 for quite a while. Let's ask Gleb >Y> Smirnoff if he believes it is OK to make the change in question. >Y> Adding him to Cc:. Gleb, thanks in advance for your valuable >Y> opinion! :-) >Y> >Y> As for my dealing with this issue, I just upgraded my 5.x systems >Y> to 6-STABLE at last. It was completely painless because 5.x and 6.x >Y> didn't differ radically in the system-to-admin interface, such as >Y> configuration files etc. > >CARP will not work correctly on vlan(4) on em(4) in RELENG_5, sorry. >The suggested patch is a hack and can't be accepted, since we >have a clean and nice working solution in RELENG_6. > >I am running RELENG_6 since mid-summer on my routers utilizing CARP >on vlan(4) interface with em(4) as parent. I suggest to upgrade to >RELENG_6, as well as many other developers and users do. Even >5.5-RELEASE release notes suggest to move to RELENG_6. > > > Since 6.x is only a .0 I have been reluctant to make a switch for production machines. The machines that this is required for are redundant firewalls. They have the availability to push a full gigabit, will I run into any throughput problems or any other potential problems with 6.x? Chris