Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:01:57 -0500 (EST) From: Scott Kupferschmidt <sk@isprime.com> To: Gary Bannister <garyb@nas.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding Virtual Host IPs Takes Too Long Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403121501030.54596-100000@lexus.isprime.com> In-Reply-To: <010301c4086a$99e00ed0$0501010a@NETACCESS.nas.net>
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Hello, The intel "em" drivers are terrible under FreeBSD and seem to re-add routes or do something funky when you add new IP's. The Dell 1650's have those cards in them and we notice it all the time, unfornautely. Try using a quality ethernet card such as fxp or bge and you will not have that problem. Sincerely, Scott Kupferschmidt ISPrime, Inc. 866.502.4678 ext. 3 AIM: Scott ISPrime - ICQ: 174337249 On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Gary Bannister wrote: > We are setting up our first web server under FreeBSD 5.1. Everything is > going well except that adding virtual host IPs takes a very long time. We > have timed it at 7 minutes to add 255 IPs. This seems to talk far too long > and makes reboots very long processes. > > Our "start_if.em1" file is as follows: > > ifconfig_em1="inet 216.145.105.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX > mediaopt > full-duplex" > ifconfig_em1_alias0="inet 216.145.105.4 netmask 255.255.255.255" > ifconfig_em1_alias1="inet 216.145.105.5 netmask 255.255.255.255" > ifconfig_em1_alias2="inet 216.145.105.6 netmask 255.255.255.255" > ifconfig_em1_alias3="inet 216.145.105.7 netmask 255.255.255.255" > ifconfig_em1_alias4="inet 216.145.105.8 netmask 255.255.255.255" > ... > (etc.) > ... > > Adding aliases from the command line takes an equal amount of time (about 2 > seconds per IP). Both methods do work and no error messages are produced. > > Is this normal or are we missing something??? > > Gary Bannister > NetAccess Systems Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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