Intel ix (X520) disconnects when manipulating ips?

[Julian Elischer]

On 4/22/11 5:08 PM, Andrew Boyer wrote:
> Hello Steve and Jack,
> You need to handle the SIOCSIFADDR ioctl or it gets passed up the stack to ether_ioctl().  When it goes up the interface gets reset.  See the comments in em_ioctl() and igb_ioctl().
>
> We fixed this in ixgbe in our internal tree and it seems to work fine with 82598 and 82599.  You also need to include opt_inet.h for the INET #define to be valid.

so, what else have you fixed?   :-)

> -Andrew
>
> On Apr 22, 2011, at 7:06 PM, Steven Hartland wrote:
>
>> Just double checked on igb1 on the same machine, adding an alias causes
>> no loss in network from the primary or existing ip aliases for the nic.
>>
>> So this should be eliminating most variables except the driver?
>>
>>    Regards
>>    Steve
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Vogel"<jfvogel at gmail.com>
>> To: "Steven Hartland"<killing at multiplay.co.uk>
>> Cc:<freebsd-net at freebsd.org>; "Vogel, Jack"<jack.vogel at intel.com>
>> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 11:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: Intel ix (X520) disconnects when manipulating ips?
>>
>>
>>> OK, did some testing, this re-init with link transition will happen on both
>>> the 1G
>>> drivers as well as ixgbe, its due to the stack/ioctl behavior when  you do
>>> the
>>> ifconfig.
>>> So, what are you comparing this to that DOESN'T do this?? If this were to
>>> be kept from happening I'm not sure where the responsible code would be
>>> but I'm pretty sure its not in the driver :)
>>
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