High ping latency using two ethernet under FreeBSD 4.11 ...

[dima]

> Testing my network, I just noticed the following:
> 
> --- 200.46.204.1 ping statistics ---
> 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 399.664/407.119/420.315/8.267 ms
> 
> --- 200.46.208.1 ping statistics ---
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 373.045/409.266/453.402/33.280 ms
> 
> 400ms to my default router seems a wee bit high ...
> 
> I'm suspecting that it has to do with:
> 
> Mar 15 01:13:28 neptune last message repeated 10 times
> Mar 15 01:13:28 neptune /kernel: arp: 200.46.204.1 is on em0 but got reply from 00:0b:bf:42:a8:06 on em1
> Mar 15 01:13:28 neptune /kernel: arp: 200.46.208.1 is on em1 but got reply from 00:0b:bf:42:a8:06 on em0
> 
> In order to provide network redundancy, and simplify our scripting, with 
> have one network bound to one ethernet port, and the other network bound 
> to the second one on the same machine ...
> 
> I'm plugging everything into a Cisco 2924 ... is there some way, either on 
> the FreeBSD side, or Cisco, of 'cleaning this up'?

Try ng_fec. It works ok with 2950, not sure about 2924 though.

> 
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> Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
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