From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 27 8:55:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (unknown [205.230.22.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750DD37B403; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 08:55:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6R0Y4U28965; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 01:34:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 01:34:02 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Terry Lambert Cc: Julian Elischer , "Eugene L. Vorokov" , Soren Kristensen , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why two cards on the same segment... Message-ID: <20010727013402.G17126@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <200107260837.f6Q8b9K00767@bugz.infotecs.ru> <3B5FDD32.7758EB35@elischer.org> <3B6055C8.C0B5554D@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vJguvTgX93MxBIIe" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B6055C8.C0B5554D@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:39:20AM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --vJguvTgX93MxBIIe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:39:20AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > At a guess, he's attempting to implement VRRP, which requires [...] > Even after crossing that hurdle, FreeBSD will send out the [...] > So short of implementing auxillary MAC programming and virtual > interfaces in FreeBSD, he has to use two cards on the same wire. >=20 > ...not to mention the mess the current FreeBSD ARP code is in, [...] > ...or the mess that the FreeBSD interface code is in, since it [...] =20 > ...or the mess the FreeBSD alias code is in, with it demanding [...] > So, the major reasons for two cards on one segment: to work around > bugs in FreeBSD's networking code. Have you submitted these bugs using send-pr(8)? N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --vJguvTgX93MxBIIe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjtgtvkACgkQk6gHZCw343WhrQCgiiLq6NQh53kyXyMcxiZdAbd8 2a0An1Lbdc1x1HLKCur5BH2y3o0uuKNR =kgaQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vJguvTgX93MxBIIe-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message