Does anyone know of a way to avoid bouncing the em NIC when adding or removing aliases ? In cases where the switch's port blocking kicks in, this can take the box off line for a problematic amount of time. e.g. ifconfig em0 19.168.13.9 netmask 255.255.255.252 alias will down and up the interface. I dont know of any other drivers that work this way. On RELENG_4, it used to only have this problem behavior when the NIC was in autoneg. But this is no longer the case in RELENG_5 as all media-opts (full / half / autoneg) work this way now. Are there any tunables that would govern this behavior ? Thanks for any insight, ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike_at_sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mikeReceived on Wed Jan 12 2005 - 20:36:06 UTC
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