From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 13 12:25:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3FA37B400 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 12:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id g4DJOtU15461; Mon, 13 May 2002 12:24:55 -0700 Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 12:24:55 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: "Mike M." Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6-PRERELASE fxp alias woes Message-ID: <20020513122449.B24894@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020513142059.03741410@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020513142059.03741410@127.0.0.1>; from mikem@wmis.net on Mon, May 13, 2002 at 03:20:12PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [Just say no to HTML mail.] On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 03:20:12PM -0400, Mike M. wrote: >=20 > Greetings all, > I cvsup'd to the latest -stable last night (4.6-pr): > FreeBSD homer.wmis.net 4.6-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE #3: Mon > May 13 12:22:11 EDT 2002 > root@homer.wmis.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HOMER i386 > Much to my dismay, I rebooted after running mergemaster, and > discovered that none of > my IP aliases were in place. The console indicated a "ifconfig: ioctl > (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists" > for every alias entry in my rc.conf. Keep in mind these aliases were > working perfectly as-is > until the upgrade (from 4.4-STABLE 9/27/01). My first few rc.conf > entries: > network_interfaces=3D"fxp0 lo0" > ifconfig_fxp0=3D"inet 216.109.194.4 netmask 255.255.255.0" > ifconfig_fxp0_alias0=3D"inet 216.109.194.8 netmask 255.255.255.0" This should be: ifconfig_fxp0_alias0=3D"inet 216.109.194.8 netmask 255.255.255.255" ^^^ It's always been the case that the netmask should be 255.255.255.255. A recent change make it fully manditory. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE84BMAXY6L6fI4GtQRAlXoAJ9tD34U1nKF+MQvlQVs1SWoKvKKjwCgqOT6 27dUJRKTyJEquEyNDaX9HOc= =z5PR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message