Re: CARP interfaces and mastership issue

2011-09-17 Thread Brian Seklecki (Mobile)
What would help here, is for a carp interface to wait a given delay (tunable through a sysctl ?) after creation or after being brought up I see now. The tunable sounds like a good idea; we should check OpenBSD, they probably already implemented something and we're behind. If not, a "preemp

Re: CARP interfaces and mastership issue

2011-09-15 Thread Brian Seklecki (Mobile)
Things went smoothly but when we brought the production VLANs up again at layer 2 on the switches, when spanning-tree converged we had again a double MASTER problem. In older versions of FBSD, creating logical interfaces like vlan(4) and carp(4) had an nasty inadvertent side effect of togglin

Re: em(4) duplex problems with 82541EI on RELENG_8, -CURRENT on PowerEdge 1850

2010-06-20 Thread Brian Seklecki (Mobile)
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Jack Vogel wrote: Yes, the commits today are slated to get into 8.1, at least that's my understanding. Lets hope so; its looking very promising on the systems I'm able to test on. We should ask 82541EI and Dell 9th gen PowerEdge users to test them right away. ~BAS

Re: FreeBSD 7.x hang-on-boot on Dell 1950

2009-11-22 Thread Brian Seklecki
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 16:56 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > I've now verified that 8.0-RC3 does the same thing, BTW. > > Anyways... no. There is no floppy option in the BIOS. It's not in Dell BIOS absolutely sucks. You get what you pay for. We have 25+ 9th gen systems. Revision 1, with