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:
>
> 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="fxp0 lo0"
> ifconfig_fxp0="inet 216.109.194.4 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet 216.109.194.8 netmask 255.255.255.0"
This should be:
ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="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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