User Freebsd said the following on 6/30/06 1:48 PM:
see 'arping' ... great little tool, solved all my problems as far as
moving around IPs ...
Thanks for the tip, I will try it next time.
I still have many 4.x based machines, and both em issues (the card
reset on each alias and the arp packets not been sent when going down)
were present when I was doing my tests.
Right, what version of 4.x? The one that I have working is from ~Feb
2005 .. if I were to upgrade that to the latest 4-STABLE, it would break
like the rest ... the older 4.x had a different em driver in the kernel
then the newer one ...
The problem was initially discovered back in 2003 (must have been with
4.8 or 4.9) and after switching back to fxp I haven't tested the 4.x
branch any more.
I remember testing 5.x around the 5.3 release (2004) and 6.x shortly
after 6.0 (2005), and both em driver versions shipped with these
releases were having the same issues.
I haven't tested it this year yet, but even in case it's fixed, it's not
likely that all improvements will get back-ported to the older branches
(over 90% of my servers run something older than 6.x). But as long as
fxp works, this is a non-issue for me.
Regards,
Atanas
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