I have this same problem on some production servers running 4.10-RELEASE-p16. My work around is to set the arp cache timeout on our 2811 router to 10 seconds.
Colin David Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: To owner-freebsd-sta "Marc G. Fournier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 11/14/2005 02:40 Subject PM Re: em devices not sending proper arp packets ... On 11/14/05, David Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We've had this problem too. Some have suggested turning on "portfast" > on the Cisco switches, but that doesn't resolve it. It causes severely > long delays when doing net installs (sysinstall has a very long retry > time for DNS lookups, measured in minutes). Ultimately the problem is > that the driver changed some time in the 4 branch (we think it was > between 4.1 and 4.2 or 4.2 and 4.3) Sorry to reply to myself here, I forgot to add: The problem is still present in 6.0-RELEASE, and can be seen while running sysinstall. Haven't tried 6.0-STABLE (can't get -RELEASE to install due to unrelated bug bin/88872). According to cvsweb, 6.0-RELEASE has the latest Intel driver. Also: The bug you're seeing may be unrelated to the bug I was seeing, but I suspect they may be similar. Arps just don't seem to be going out like they should _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"