Re: CARP interfaces and mastership issue

2011-09-17 Thread Brian Seklecki (Mobile)
What would help here, is for a carp interface to wait a given delay (tunable through a sysctl ?) after creation or after being brought up I see now. The tunable sounds like a good idea; we should check OpenBSD, they probably already implemented something and we're behind. If not, a

Re: CARP interfaces and mastership issue

2011-09-15 Thread Brian Seklecki (Mobile)
Things went smoothly but when we brought the production VLANs up again at layer 2 on the switches, when spanning-tree converged we had again a double MASTER problem. In older versions of FBSD, creating logical interfaces like vlan(4) and carp(4) had an nasty inadvertent side effect of

Re: em(4) duplex problems with 82541EI on RELENG_8, -CURRENT on PowerEdge 1850

2010-06-20 Thread Brian Seklecki (Mobile)
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Jack Vogel wrote: Yes, the commits today are slated to get into 8.1, at least that's my understanding. Lets hope so; its looking very promising on the systems I'm able to test on. We should ask 82541EI and Dell 9th gen PowerEdge users to test them right away. ~BAS

Re: FreeBSD 7.x hang-on-boot on Dell 1950

2009-11-22 Thread Brian Seklecki
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 16:56 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: I've now verified that 8.0-RC3 does the same thing, BTW. Anyways... no. There is no floppy option in the BIOS. It's not in Dell BIOS absolutely sucks. You get what you pay for. We have 25+ 9th gen systems. Revision 1, with