From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 4 15:27:24 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 CEAFD16A403 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 15:27:24 +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 3746F43D58 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 15:27:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F257291F7B; Thu, 4 May 2006 12:27:22 -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 75110-01; Thu, 4 May 2006 12:27:22 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5166291BF5; Thu, 4 May 2006 12:27:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2CD1038438; Thu, 4 May 2006 12:27:27 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C157434129; Thu, 4 May 2006 12:27:27 -0300 (ADT) Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 12:27:26 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Gavin Atkinson In-Reply-To: <1146754236.4321.26.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Message-ID: <20060504122704.B1147@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060504070534.98F0216A432@hub.freebsd.org> <20060504112918.Q1147@ganymede.hub.org> <1146754236.4321.26.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Rutger Bevaart , 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 15:27:24 -0000 On Thu, 4 May 2006, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 11:30 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> On Thu, 4 May 2006, Rutger Bevaart wrote: >> >>> Technically it's not routes that are not being updated, but a stale >>> (outdated) ARP cache on the other hosts. The system with the new alias'ed IP >>> needs to do a gratuitous ARP (broadcast ARP for it's own IP). As an >>> intermediate solution you could flush the ARP cache on the hosts with stale >>> cache (usually a router or L3 switch on the subnet). >> >> 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 :( > > ... or use ports/net/arping: > > arping -S -s router-IP > > But, I agree, this is a bug with em(4) that should probably be fixed at > some point... I will try that later tonight, thanks ... I have another one to move onto that machien from another one :) ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664