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From: Piotr KUCHARSKI <nospam@42.pl>
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Subject: Re: misc/154943: ifconfig gifX create on existing gifX clears IP
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The following reply was made to PR misc/154943; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Piotr KUCHARSKI <nospam@42.pl>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, nospam@42.pl
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Subject: Re: misc/154943: ifconfig gifX create on existing gifX clears IP
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:00:26 +0100

 Uhm. I guess it's kind of a false alarm, not regression from 8.1 :)
 
 The problem is this:
 
 # getent hosts create
 85.128.167.158    create.pl
 
 so ifconfig sees that gif5 interface exists and so decides I wanted to
 change the IP and resolves "create", gets the IP, and basically executes:
 
 # ifconfig gif3 85.128.167.158
 ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Destination address required
 
 IMHO it still should not clear the old address in this case.