From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 25 16:19:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09006 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 16:19:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zed.ludd.luth.se (zed.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09001 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 16:19:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pantzer@father.ludd.luth.se) Received: from father.ludd.luth.se (pantzer@father.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.18]) by zed.ludd.luth.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA18601; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 01:19:12 +0200 Message-Id: <199804252319.BAA18601@zed.ludd.luth.se> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Dave Marquardt cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD HA configuration / Ethernet address takeover In-reply-to: Your message of "25 Apr 1998 17:13:37 CDT." <85yawtim7i.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 01:19:11 +0200 From: Mattias Pantzare Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > A lot of ARP caches will retain the original server's MAC address for > some number of minutes, so being able to take over the MAC address is > a very good thing. No, when you ifconfig a interface it will send a gratuitous ARP request. That will update the ARP caches on the other hosts. Now if you are worying about lost packets you need to take a look at your network... :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message