From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 4 15:20:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 107CD16A403 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 15:20:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8519043D48 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 15:20:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52D61291F7B; Thu, 4 May 2006 12:20:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 74858-01; Thu, 4 May 2006 12:20:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4AB7291BF5; Thu, 4 May 2006 12:20:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4FC2D49083; Thu, 4 May 2006 11:59:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ED29488CE; Thu, 4 May 2006 11:59:08 -0300 (ADT) Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 11:59:08 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Rutger Bevaart In-Reply-To: <2234039A-E4E8-462B-8F25-4CD203361502@illian-networks.nl> Message-ID: <20060504115841.C1147@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060504070534.98F0216A432@hub.freebsd.org> <20060504112918.Q1147@ganymede.hub.org> <2234039A-E4E8-462B-8F25-4CD203361502@illian-networks.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em(4) device still 'freezes' on latset CVSup'd 6.x ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 15:20:37 -0000 On Thu, 4 May 2006, Rutger Bevaart wrote: > On May 4, 2006, at 4:30 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >> This is what we end up having to do ... but, unfortunately, that means >> getting ahold of our co-lo provider and asking them to do it ... they have >> always been most accomodating, its just one of those things that I >> shouldn't *have* to do :( > > In colo or datacenter environments ISP's and Telco's are not too eager about > gratuitous ARPs, as they can be a sign of hacking activities (trying to > intercept traffic to neighboring hosts or network devices). At any rate, the > em-driver should broadcast the same way as bge or any of the others. I'll try > to capture some ARP traffic on a em interface and see if it looks ok. > > What would be the best way to add an alias IP without other funny things in > the OS being triggered? Just do 'ifconfig em1 (aliasip) netmask (mask) bcast > [bcat) alias' ? All I ever do is: ifconfig em0 alias netmask 255.255.255.255 maybe that's the problem, there is something else I should be adding? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664