Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:52:38 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: dpk <dpk@dpk.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: broken fxp driver in 4.x ... Message-ID: <20050822115056.M1002@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20050822073642.B71377@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> References: <20050822013402.B1002@ganymede.hub.org> <20050822073642.B71377@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net>
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On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, dpk wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> Now, on one of our newer servers runnign a fairly recent cvsup of 4.x, the >> fxp driver is doing the exact same thing ... all the other fxp based >> servers do a nice quick 'ifconfig alias' for an IP, and arp broadcasts are >> sent out, but on this one, I get the '60 second hang' and have to get our >> network guys to clear arp caches for the changes to take effect :( >> >> Has anyone else running 4.x experienced this? Or am I just unlucky with >> these things? Is there a way of fixing it? >> >> Thanks ... > > We have a similar problem with our servers using em and bge drivers, but > we don't experience that exact problem with fxp (although we have a > different but similarly annoying problem). I was told for our problem we > should enable 'portfast' on our switch ports -- we're in the process of > trying to get that done. > > I don't know if the alias problem is the same, though. It's definitely > still present in 5.4-R. We aren't in a position to try 6.0 or 7.0 or > whatever version people are moving on to, so I don't know if it's fixed > there. > > I was thinking we might be the only people seeing the huge delay in > getting networking up -- wasn't finding anything on Google about it. The problem with Google is it assumes that ppl don't answer "offlist" with a "me too" answer :( > Can you try having your network guys enable 'portfast' on your server > port, and then see if adding an IP alias still causes the hang? I'd love to, but I know nothing about the Cisco switches other then the very bare minimal ... if you can give me some instructions, I can look at getting it done though ... Thanks ... > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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