On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 15:52 +0000, Levy, Alan wrote: > We have a problem with a linux server that when we reboot it, it takes at > least 15 minutes to be able to ssh into. > > It seems, from out network traces, that when the server reboots, it has 2 mac > addresses in the arp tables on the firewall (one from before and one from > after the reboot). > > We cannot ping or ssh into the server after the reboot. Yesterday, we > rebooted it. The network group ran traces, captured packets, etc and we found > that if we pinged the network gateway address from this server, everything > started working again. > > Has anyone seen this before ?
Alan, we reported this problem in Novell bugzilla 617373. Solution has been to introduce a SEND_GRATUITOUS_ARP config option. Its default is "no". Changing it to "yes" should trigger the sending of gratuitous ARPs. The config option is offered starting with sysconfig-0.71.30-0.10.1. Regards, Ursula Braun, IBM Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
