On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, dpk wrote:
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
Now, on one of our newer servers runnign a fairly recent cvsup of 4.x, the
fxp driver is doing the exact same thing ... all the other fxp based
servers do a nice quick 'ifconfig alias' for an IP, and arp broadcasts are
sent out, but on this one, I get the '60 second hang' and have to get our
network guys to clear arp caches for the changes to take effect :(
Has anyone else running 4.x experienced this? Or am I just unlucky with
these things? Is there a way of fixing it?
Thanks ...
We have a similar problem with our servers using em and bge drivers, but
we don't experience that exact problem with fxp (although we have a
different but similarly annoying problem). I was told for our problem we
should enable 'portfast' on our switch ports -- we're in the process of
trying to get that done.
I don't know if the alias problem is the same, though. It's definitely
still present in 5.4-R. We aren't in a position to try 6.0 or 7.0 or
whatever version people are moving on to, so I don't know if it's fixed
there.
I was thinking we might be the only people seeing the huge delay in
getting networking up -- wasn't finding anything on Google about it.
The problem with Google is it assumes that ppl don't answer "offlist" with
a "me too" answer :(
Can you try having your network guys enable 'portfast' on your server
port, and then see if adding an IP alias still causes the hang?
I'd love to, but I know nothing about the Cisco switches other then the
very bare minimal ... if you can give me some instructions, I can look at
getting it done though ...
Thanks ... >
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