From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 9 23:32:58 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B866106566C; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:32:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leschnik@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 190788FC16; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:32:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnk4 with SMTP id k4so1510990ggn.13 for ; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:32:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TbW2hpKbOAmiLza23aTW7jb5Q7j9v+Ey3SeEoEa8NvA=; b=wx36EUqcqpcD62P7fZCCGChijeiGnIltcq7woar6CP+HB9DINe9024s5OXvdQa/v3r ClYTOb/UWTSZG8p0Y4lNLabnIv3mx7wOOjX1zEbCyqHEcFUp41uFjyBoXTV2FXO8vFXx OcUmTZKh5SOVcxt17NR1ztFKQFk7nuRFbgS5OoMvo1tcyrfcAmoEt5rTHcakb1SYcY14 HIf8uZxitc6Pqil3n0LYyc5gQuDS2fkeLgPAI3Ifvc+fMe/DMmgx9KfYsKAqgB5XqVU3 ETowS2D2qYDtThH99yLjDNA223DI5cNJu++C9FLKvKG6jh1mf6LC8BkY9CDbTbg+tXui kS0w== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.46.134 with SMTP id r6mr4743083yhb.106.1331335977444; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:32:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.11.7 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 15:32:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120309143434.GB91986@sandvine.com> References: <20120309143434.GB91986@sandvine.com> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:32:57 +1100 Message-ID: From: Jason Leschnik To: Ed Maste Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lagg failover does not announce the failover to switch X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:32:58 -0000 So much win, Thanks Ed I will get some boxes up to test it and report back the results. Where is the best place to report results beside the forum? Would you like then back in this thread of mail? Cheers :) On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Ed Maste wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 02:28:32PM +1100, Jason Leschnik wrote: > >> Lagg failover does not gratuitous ARP on the new interface to announce >> the link failover - This leaves clients trying to access the failed >> link and never making it to the up'd link. >> >> Bug ID: 156226 >> Found on this todo list: http://wiki.freebsd.org/EdMaste/ToDo >> >> I was wondering if i could offer a donation Hardware/Money to get this >> fixed, in my opinion this is a very important feature for the >> platform. I understand there are other ways to correct the behavior >> but one would expect this to be solved in the driver. > > We've posted a prototype patch for comments: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2012-February/031328.html > > Gleb raised some concerns that we'll look to address before this is > ready to be committed to the tree, but any testing you can provide on > the patch in its current state would be appreciated. =A0The (externally > visible) functionality should remain unchanged. > > I appreciate your offer of a hardware or monetary donation, although at > this point we're not being held up by either. =A0You can send your > donation to the FreeBSD Foundation instead to help support the FreeBSD > project in general. > > Regards, > Ed Maste --=20 Regards, Jason Leschnik. [m] 0432 35 4224 [w@] jason dot leschnik ansto dot gov dot au [U@]=A0jml974@uow.edu.au