From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 25 19:28:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25015 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 19:28:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles322.castles.com [208.214.167.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA24994 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 19:28:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA01557; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 19:25:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804260225.TAA01557@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 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: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 19:25:40 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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. Pinging the broadcast address from the new MAC is one fairly effective way of flushing stale ARP entries. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message