Odd behaviour on em0 device in -stable ... I think ...

[Barney Wolff]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:31:41PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> The problem is that I want to move an IP from one of the other servers
> (all with fxp interfaces) over to the 4th, with the em device ... I -alias
> the IP from the fxp device, and alias it over to the em device, and I can
> no longer access it remotely ...
> 
> If I alias it onto any of hte other two fxp based servers, it works fine.

Something, either the switch or the router, has a stale arp table entry.
It's a little curious that this ever works, without resetting whatever
it is.  Perhaps the fxp's manage to send a gratuitous arp when taking
on a new alias.

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