Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:45:22 -0500 From: "Walter Venable" <walt@relnor.com> To: "Brian Duke" <brian@box201.com>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Breaks re and rl Network Interface Drivers Message-ID: <486185590901071045r3549d00y76eecffaf35007d8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <000701c970f6$aaa64960$fff2dc20$@com> References: <8dfae1c10901070639x67945324jeeecfcac647d7976@mail.gmail.com> <1231346850.84852.13.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <000701c970f6$aaa64960$fff2dc20$@com>
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On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Brian Duke <brian@box201.com> wrote: > Walter, > I too have these two interfaces and was forced to disconnect my rl0 in order > for my static ip on re0 to route correctly. If both interfaces are up on the > same network even if both are different IPs all routing stopped. I was > planning on doing a little load balancing project. I didn't due to lack of > time. > > #ifconfig rl0 down > > left my interface up and active. The interface would not change its IP > through sysinstalls' enable networking interfaces. I could do this: > > #ifconfig rl0 inet 192.168.1.150 > > But my routing was messed up at that point and was confirmed via: > > #netstat -r > > The return information looked like it was stuck or lost and the command > never finished. > I had to disconnect one or the other but both simply showed no routes. I > disconnected rl0 because it was a 10/100m interface and left my re0 gig > interface connected rebooted and the routes and networking is again stable. > In the interest of full disclosure rl0 is on the motherboard re0 is a pci > card. Brian, was this happening to you on 7.0 also or just 7.1?
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