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Date:      Mon, 13 May 2002 12:24:55 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        "Mike M." <mikem@wmis.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.6-PRERELASE fxp alias woes
Message-ID:  <20020513122449.B24894@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020513142059.03741410@127.0.0.1>

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On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 03:20:12PM -0400, Mike M. wrote:
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>    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

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