Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:17:23 -0300 From: Raimundo Santos <raitech@gmail.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists - but not only with alias command Message-ID: <CAGQ6iC-fKZARrqQrhbswS3YGZqOfOctR9C7B6xSO43LnXh_yTw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello list,
I have a quad port Intel NIC and I am stucked on this problem: whenever I
try to modify the address of one port of this NIC, I see from ifconfig
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
Here is the status of one port:
# ifconfig igb1
igb1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=401bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO>
ether 00:1b:21:5a:93:31
inet6 fe80::21b:21ff:fe5a:9331%igb1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
status: active
As you can see, no inet address. Try to put an address that was used before
in the same port of this NIC, and..
# ifconfig igb1 XX.XX.XX.20/28
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
I have routed running with this /etc/gateways:
ripv2
if=tun0 no_rip
if=tun1 no_rip
if=et0 no_rip
if=et1 no_rip
if=igb2 no_rip
if=igb3 no_rip
rdisc_interval=45
no_ag
no_super_ag
subnet=X.Y.Z.56/30,1
subnet=X.Y.Z.0/29,1
subnet=X.Y.Z.8/29,1
subnet=X.Y.Z.16/29,1
subnet=X.Y.Z.24/29,1
subnet=X.Y.Z.32/29,1
subnet=X.Y.Z.40/29,1
subnet=X.Y.Z.48/29,1
subnet=X.Y.Z.64/29,1
subnet=X.Y.Z.72/29,1
subnet=X.Y.Z.80/29,1
subnet=X.Y.Z.88/29,1
subnet=X.Y.Z.96/29,1
subnet=X.Y.Z.104/29,1
subnet=X.Y.Z.112/29,1
subnet=X.Y.Z.120/29,1
The problem occurs when configuring the primary address or an alias in any
port, after unconfigure some other address.
Using
# uname -a
FreeBSD XXX 9.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p4 #10: Thu Aug 1 19:04:09
BRT 2013 XXX:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/XXX_KERNEL amd64
A custom system with 0 thru 15 FIBs, FWD in ipfw, and VNET/VIMAGE all
enabled.
Thank you!
Raimundo Santos
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