From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 12:01:59 2004 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 C247E16A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:01:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from lexus.isprime.com (lexus.isprime.com [66.230.130.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F43F43D41 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:01:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sk@isprime.com) Received: from lexus.isprime.com (sk@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lexus.isprime.com (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i2CK1w3v064518; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:01:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sk@isprime.com) Received: from localhost (sk@localhost)i2CK1vvh064515; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:01:57 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: lexus.isprime.com: sk owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:01:57 -0500 (EST) From: Scott Kupferschmidt To: Gary Bannister In-Reply-To: <010301c4086a$99e00ed0$0501010a@NETACCESS.nas.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding Virtual Host IPs Takes Too Long X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:01:59 -0000 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" >