From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 4 15:48:07 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 369BC16A401 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 15:48:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw4.york.ac.uk (mail-gw4.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A2E43D46 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 15:48:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (buffy-128.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.160]) by mail-gw4.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k44Fm2SH006684; Thu, 4 May 2006 16:48:02 +0100 (BST) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k44Fm2Io005705; Thu, 4 May 2006 16:48:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k44Fm2Nn005704; Thu, 4 May 2006 16:48:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: "Marc G. Fournier" In-Reply-To: <20060504122704.B1147@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060504070534.98F0216A432@hub.freebsd.org> <20060504112918.Q1147@ganymede.hub.org> <1146754236.4321.26.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <20060504122704.B1147@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 16:48:01 +0100 Message-Id: <1146757681.4321.37.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk 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 15:48:07 -0000 On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 12:27 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > 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 :) It's been a while since I've needed to do it, so that command line is from memory. You may need to use -T and/or -B instead of the router IP address. Gavin