if_re losinbg ability to communicate, even with latest patches

[Christoph Schug]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008, Pete French wrote:

> ...and it is stable for you ? I will defintely go and turn these off in
> that case! Also, I note your are runnign RELENG_7 and not RELENG_7_0 - any
> idea what changes there might have been in that ?

Up to I haven't encountered a real show stopper beside the re(4) issues
which seem to be fixed at least for my configuration. Nevertheless all
those minor glitches which come with a new major release will hopefully
be fixed sooner in RELENG_7 than RELENG_7_0. That's the reasone why I
don't track RELENG_7_0, but up to now there should be much difference
anyway. I think I will track RELENG_7 til RELENG_7_1 will be branched.

> This is extermely interesting! I have applied those settings by hand just
> now, and will see if it helps. Not quite sure how to get them
> into rc.conf yet - I am using ipv4_addrs_re0="195.144.8.6/28 195.144.8.4/28"
> and am not sure how an ifconfig_re0 line might interact with it as yet. 
> I dont want to edit rc.conf in case it reboots...

Should be oka, to put your primary IP address and the interface options
in an 'ifconfig_re0' line and to add additional IPs to the interface
using a 'ipv4_addrs_re0' line. At least I've tested it on a VMware and
it seems to work just fine.

-cs