em device on 4.x: ifconfig alias issue

[Marc G. Fournier]

Nope, doesn't help ... I've been doing this for years now, and its all 
scripted, to make sure that I don't make a mistake like that ... its a 
reproducible issue with 4.x and the EM drivers ... or, rather, the 
4-STABLE ones ... in fact, I have three servers with em devices, one of 
them I *haven't* upgraded to the latest, since I knew if I did, the 
problem itself would creep onto that machine ... the other two are running 
reasonably "new" (for 4.x, of course) -STABLE kernels, and both exhibit 
the problem ...

I'm not overly concerned, it just takes 30-60 minutes for everything to 
usually time out and become visible on the 'Net again ... and, starting in 
April, we're going to be upgrading our servers to 6.x ... just figured I'd 
make sure there wasn't some command I was overlooking that I could give it 
a kick with, until then ...

Thx though ...

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Grant Peel wrote:

> Hi Marc,
>
> I don't pretend to know anything about Address Resolution and Routing, but 
> one thing I know (through many hours of frustration), is that an aliased 
> address (in your case, somehting like em0:23), IF the ip address being 
> aliases, belongs in the same subnet as anotherone on the same machine, the 
> second one must use a 255 subnet ( /0 ?).
>
> example:
>
> em0            192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0
> em0_0          192.168.0.2 255.255.255.255
> ...
> em0_23         10.10.10.10 255.255.255.192
> em0_43         10.10.10.11 255.255.255.255
> em0_59         10.10.10.15 255.255.255.255
>
> Hope this helps, if not soory about the waste of time!
>
> -Grant 
>
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>
>

----
Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy at hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664