From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 5 01:22:05 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 B8CEA16A400 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 01:22:05 +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 E8C6443D45 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 01:22:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A33291F8D; Thu, 4 May 2006 22:21:58 -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 38198-02; Thu, 4 May 2006 22:22:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A2E291F86; Thu, 4 May 2006 22:21:58 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BADB93C405; Thu, 4 May 2006 22:22:15 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6CD533F83; Thu, 4 May 2006 22:22:15 -0300 (ADT) Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 22:22:15 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Gavin Atkinson In-Reply-To: <1146757681.4321.37.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Message-ID: <20060504222200.Y1147@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> <1146757681.4321.37.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: Fri, 05 May 2006 01:22:05 -0000 On Thu, 4 May 2006, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > 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 (outdated) ARP cache on the other hosts.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. Woo hoo! Worked like a charm :) Many thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664