Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 16:30:35 +0700 From: "Michael O. Boev" <mike@tric.tomsk.gov.ru> To: <stable@freebsd.org> Cc: <current@freebsd.org> Subject: ifconfig problem Message-ID: <009901c22598$f48f3d80$e601a8c0@draco>
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Hello! I've upgraded one of my boxes (4.5-RELEASE to FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE) and encountered the following problem: After the upgrade it won't bring one of its two identical interfaces (ed0 and ed1) up at the boot-time. The internal one(ed1) was brought up cleanly, the external one(ed0) didn't get up. The only difference between them was that i was setting a specific MAC address on ed0. My rc.conf line for ed0 was like: ifconfig_ed0="inet 1.2.3.4 lladdr 01:02:03:04:05:06" And the ifconfig at the boot time said that it: "can't set link-level netmask or broadcast". Changing "lladdr" to "link" or "ether" didn't help, nor did interchanging the order of these addresses on the config line. Now I've found that I still can bring the interface up by executing two separate ifconfigs like: ifconfig ed0 lladdr 01:02:03:04:05:06 ifconfig ed0 inet 1.2.3.4 My current workaround is to set MAC in /etc/rc.early and the IP in rc.conf. My investigation revealed that this error message was introduced during the MFC of /src/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.c, version 1.51.2.16, 2002/04/03 by ru. I suspect that I've no real intention to set any link level netmask or broadcasts. Therefore, there must be an programming error somewhere in ifconfig.c, I even suppose it is in the setifaddr function, but I can't say it for sure, because I lack knowledge to understand the code in whole. I will make a PR soon, if there're no sudden objections. Best wishes, Mike Boev. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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