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Subject: Re: dev/em: Link is not up until 2 seconds after "ifconfig up"
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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.


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             <kuriyama@FreeBSD.org> // FreeBSD Project