From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 24 14:57:35 2003 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 1A3BE37B401 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:57:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from devil.stderror.at (at00d01-adsl-194-118-044-149.nextranet.at [194.118.44.149]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6893943FBF for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:57:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pinhead@stderror.at) Received: by devil.stderror.at (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6A23B1577D; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 23:57:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 23:57:33 +0200 From: Toni Schmidbauer To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030424215733.GF10208@devil.stderror.at> Mail-Followup-To: questions@freebsd.org References: <1051211883.21805.75.camel@blargh.customfilmeffects.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GdbWtwDHkcXqP16f" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1051211883.21805.75.camel@blargh.customfilmeffects.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: help with ethernet load-balancing (em) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: toni@stderror.at List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:57:35 -0000 --GdbWtwDHkcXqP16f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 12:18:03PM -0700, David Smithson wrote: > Sorry about the wrap, but as you can see, all clients are attached to > em0. If I do arp -a at the NT shell prompt on the Win2k Pro clients, I > get: >=20 > 192.168.0.97 00:30:48:27:78:68 dynamic your problem is the _very_ aggressive windows dns caching. we had (have) the same problems with a loadbalanced (dns-round robin) mailserver.=20 see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=3Dkb;en-us;245437 there's also an article about win xp and dns caching. just search the knowledge base for dns caching. for real load balancing you would need something like a samba ( i assume you are using samba) loadbalancer, which redirects the request.=20 but i am not aware if such a solution exists. hth, toni --=20 Behandle die Menschen, als w=E4ren sie, was sie sein | toni at stderror dot= at sollten, und du wirst ihnen helfen, zu werden, was | Toni Schmidbauer sie sein k=F6nnen. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | --GdbWtwDHkcXqP16f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+qF3Mu/mjSj7RMocRAtI9AJ0UqkMUI9buZMqnm8y7c++FiKNMmgCdGOw8 XbEHKWrxHdE/7LqugnS5X3Y= =qkBf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GdbWtwDHkcXqP16f--