Adding Virtual Host IPs Takes Too Long

[Scott Kupferschmidt]

Hello,

The intel "em" drivers are terrible under FreeBSD and seem to re-add
routes or do something funky when you add new IP's.  The Dell 1650's have
those cards in them and we notice it all the time, unfornautely.

Try using a quality ethernet card such as fxp or bge and you will not have
that problem.

Sincerely,

Scott Kupferschmidt
ISPrime, Inc.
866.502.4678 ext. 3
AIM: Scott ISPrime - ICQ: 174337249

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Gary Bannister wrote:

> We are setting up our first web server under FreeBSD 5.1.  Everything is
> going well except that adding virtual host IPs takes a very long time.  We
> have timed it at 7 minutes to add 255 IPs.  This seems to talk far too long
> and makes reboots very long processes.
> 
> Our "start_if.em1" file is as follows:
> 
> ifconfig_em1="inet 216.145.105.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX
> mediaopt
> full-duplex"
> ifconfig_em1_alias0="inet 216.145.105.4 netmask 255.255.255.255"
> ifconfig_em1_alias1="inet 216.145.105.5 netmask 255.255.255.255"
> ifconfig_em1_alias2="inet 216.145.105.6 netmask 255.255.255.255"
> ifconfig_em1_alias3="inet 216.145.105.7 netmask 255.255.255.255"
> ifconfig_em1_alias4="inet 216.145.105.8 netmask 255.255.255.255"
> ...
> (etc.)
> ...
> 
> Adding aliases from the command line takes an equal amount of time (about 2
> seconds per IP).  Both methods do work and no error messages are produced.
> 
> Is this normal or are we missing something???
> 
> Gary Bannister
> NetAccess Systems Inc.
> 
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