I have a patch that will fix this. Please give me a little while to clean it up, and I will send it out on the list.
-Andrew On May 19, 2011, at 2:58 AM, Igor Anishchuk wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been using Intel E10G42AFDA 10Gbit/s AF DA Dual Port adapters > with direct attach cables and there is one thing keeps bothering me. > I've been searching the Internet for any information with no luck. I > would also assume that the problem is widely known, and I found one > related PR kern/141285 but that one was closed unsolved. > > When a VLAN interface is added or removed to from the ix interfaces > the parent interface is briefly brought down and up. This event is > visible for all applications and the switches. With my use case I add > and remove VLAN interfaces on the fly and the described behavior > causes undesired effects, especially for BGP daemons that are > configured to monitor one of permanent VLAN interfaces. > > I use FreeBSD 7-STABLE and the behavior is the same with stock > drivers, with 2.2.3 and with 2.3.8 drivers downloaded from Intel web > site. I have attempted to disable -vlanhwtag, -vlanhwfilter and > -vlanhwtso with no effect. > > Could someone help me to stop the cards behaving this way? I do not > mind some performance penalties, nor running in permanent promiscuous > mode. I just want the card to stay up all the time regardless of the > vlan interfaces attached to it. > > Any help, links, patches are much appreciated. > > Regards, > > Igor Anishchuk > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -------------------------------------------------- Andrew Boyer abo...@averesystems.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
