Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 12:50:01 -0700 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: kern/785: 2.0.5-950622-SNAP Various ifconfig alias problems Message-ID: <199510171950.MAA04955@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/785; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: tech@ieunet.ie Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: kern/785: 2.0.5-950622-SNAP Various ifconfig alias problems Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 15:40:34 -0400 <<On Tue, 17 Oct 95 19:51 WET DST, aj@Ieunet.ie (Alan Judge) said: > - ifconfig ed0 xxx.yyy.zzz.123 alias > returns error: > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists Incorrect invocation. ifconfig ed0 xxx.yyy.zzz.123 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias > - In order for the new address to be reachable from the > host itself, you need to do > ifconfig lo0 xxx.yyy.zzz.123 alias > as well. I don't know if this is intentional, but > it's certainly necessary. See above. > This usually results in a kernel error message like: > arp_rtrequest: bad gateway value > rtinit: wrong ifa (0xf06b2600) was (0xf0746d80) See above. > - Some of this may be related to the fact that the > presence of an arp entry for the host being aliased > (even an incomplete one) seems to break everything. > So I've been doing arp -d first. See above. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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