Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:04:49 +0900 From: Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: pdeuskar@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dev/em: Link is not up until 2 seconds after "ifconfig up" Message-ID: <7mu14c57se.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <20031208020941.GA96374@dan.emsphone.com> References: <7m8ylp6pn0.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> <20031207150250.L35454@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> <7my8to5bqk.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> <20031208020941.GA96374@dan.emsphone.com>
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At Sun, 7 Dec 2003 20:09:41 -0600,
Dan Nelson wrote:
> Do you really need to down then up your interface for vrrp to work?
> Why can't you just change the MAC address on the fly? If I change the
> MAC address on my active card with "ifconfig fxp0 ether
> 01:02:03:04:05:06", it sends out a gratuitous arp to let everyone know
> of the change, and traffic never stops.
Unfortunately, doing "ifconfig em1 ether 01:02:03:04:05:06" causes 1
or 2 seconds "no carrier", too.
--
Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp> // IMG SRC, Inc.
<kuriyama@FreeBSD.org> // FreeBSD Project
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