From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 27 15:12: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from inje.iskon.hr (inje.iskon.hr [213.191.128.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9FE537B417 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:11:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from tel.fer.hr (zg04-024.dialin.iskon.hr [213.191.137.25]) by mail.iskon.hr (8.11.4/8.11.4/Iskon 8.11.3-1) with ESMTP id fARNBgT06011; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:11:43 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3C041DA8.9A13167D@tel.fer.hr> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:11:36 +0100 From: Marko Zec X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Kirchner Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD4.4, fxp, no net after ifconfig for ~50 seconds (fwd) References: <20011127104436.W15780-100000@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Cisco switches have STP enabled by default on all ports, maybe a reboot of an 4.4 system is seen as a change in link state, so Catalyst holds the port STP-blocked for a couple of seconds before putting it to forwarding state. Did you try disabling STP on Catalyst eth ports? Marko David Kirchner wrote: > Hi, > > This problem is still ongoing; unfortunately I haven't seen a reply about > it from questions. Maybe someone here knows what's up? > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:08:38 -0800 (PST) > From: David Kirchner > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: FreeBSD4.4, fxp, no net after ifconfig for ~50 seconds > > We've recently started using FreeBSD 4.4 for production servers, in an > environment where servers between 3.2 and 4.3 have had no trouble. > Starting with 4.4, the servers have been booting up without being able to > see the network for around 50 seconds. > > tcpdump indicates that the gateway isn't responding to the ARP request for > x.x.x.1 right away. However, the gateway responds immediately to ARP > requests from 3.2 through 4.3 machines. All other ARP requests are > responded to immediately (ie, other FreeBSD 3.2-4.4 servers, even before > the gateway responds) > > I was wondering if a) anyone else has been experiencing similar trouble, > and b) if anything non-obvious has changed in the way FreeBSD ARP request > packets are sent that would cause this? > > Our network runs on primarily Cisco hardware, and the servers are > connected to Catalyst (29xx I believe) switches. The gateway is a Cisco > somethingorother router. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message