Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 11:59:08 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Rutger Bevaart <rutger.bevaart@illian-networks.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em(4) device still 'freezes' on latset CVSup'd 6.x ... Message-ID: <20060504115841.C1147@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <2234039A-E4E8-462B-8F25-4CD203361502@illian-networks.nl> References: <20060504070534.98F0216A432@hub.freebsd.org> <A7201732-7F1A-45B1-98DF-003303A0DBAF@illian-networks.nl> <20060504112918.Q1147@ganymede.hub.org> <2234039A-E4E8-462B-8F25-4CD203361502@illian-networks.nl>
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On Thu, 4 May 2006, Rutger Bevaart wrote: > On May 4, 2006, at 4:30 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >> 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 :( > > In colo or datacenter environments ISP's and Telco's are not too eager about > gratuitous ARPs, as they can be a sign of hacking activities (trying to > intercept traffic to neighboring hosts or network devices). At any rate, the > em-driver should broadcast the same way as bge or any of the others. I'll try > to capture some ARP traffic on a em interface and see if it looks ok. > > What would be the best way to add an alias IP without other funny things in > the OS being triggered? Just do 'ifconfig em1 (aliasip) netmask (mask) bcast > [bcat) alias' ? All I ever do is: ifconfig em0 alias <ip> netmask 255.255.255.255 maybe that's the problem, there is something else I should be adding? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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