Re: em device on 4.x: ifconfig alias issue

2006-03-25 Thread Grant Peel
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

Re: em device on 4.x: ifconfig alias issue

2006-03-25 Thread 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

em device on 4.x: ifconfig alias issue

2006-03-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
'k, I thought I had this licked, but apparently I'm still missign something ... When I alias a new IP onto an em device running on a 4-STABLE server (I'm in the process of moving to 6.x, haven't gotten to this server yet), for some reason, it isn't seeing appropriate 'arp' messages, so the