Re: MAC address / per-proto ARP caching in 8.1-RELEASE

2011-03-16 Thread Steve Polyack
On 03/15/11 14:26, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 09:30:39AM -0400, Steve Polyack wrote: Is anyone aware of some sort of facility in either FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE or the em(4) driver which would cause it to cache MAC addresses / ARP entries for hosts on a per-protocol basis? [snipp

Re: MAC address / per-proto ARP caching in 8.1-RELEASE

2011-03-15 Thread Steve Polyack
On 03/15/11 14:26, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 09:30:39AM -0400, Steve Polyack wrote: Is anyone aware of some sort of facility in either FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE or the em(4) driver which would cause it to cache MAC addresses / ARP entries for hosts on a per-protocol basis? [snipp

Re: MAC address / per-proto ARP caching in 8.1-RELEASE

2011-03-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 09:30:39AM -0400, Steve Polyack wrote: > Is anyone aware of some sort of facility in either FreeBSD > 8.1-RELEASE or the em(4) driver which would cause it to cache MAC > addresses / ARP entries for hosts on a per-protocol basis? > > [snipping remaining details; readers can r

MAC address / per-proto ARP caching in 8.1-RELEASE

2011-03-15 Thread Steve Polyack
Is anyone aware of some sort of facility in either FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE or the em(4) driver which would cause it to cache MAC addresses / ARP entries for hosts on a per-protocol basis? We've been doing some testing with new routers, and almost every time we switch them in or out our FreeBSD mac