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Date:      Fri, 8 Jun 2007 23:11:30 -0500
From:      "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
To:        "Mark Stout" <mcs@vpm.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE from 6.2-STABLE
Message-ID:  <d7195cff0706082111x27d785dei538071a49fe5b67d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <DOEDIFELHLGPGLILFJKMGEMECLAA.mcs@vpm.com>
References:  <20070608120020.E854416A4D1@hub.freebsd.org> <DOEDIFELHLGPGLILFJKMGEMECLAA.mcs@vpm.com>

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On 08/06/07, Mark Stout <mcs@vpm.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently upgraded from 5.4-RELEASE to 6.2-STABLE.  Now I'm having problems
> with the TCP stack.  I suspect its because of code differences.  I may have
> some older 5.4 code that was used during the build world process.  For
> example, here's a partial ifconfig -a output
>
> fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>         inet 71.4.48.6 netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast 71.4.49.255
>         inet 71.4.48.4 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 71.4.48.4
>         inet 71.4.48.7 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 71.4.48.7
>         inet 71.4.48.9 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 71.4.48.9
>
> What's interesting is I can ping 71.4.48.6 from the console.
>
> But I get the following whenever I ping any other aliased IP from the local
> console.  I can ping these from other machines.
> [root 6]> ping 71.4.48.4
> PING 71.4.48.4 (71.4.48.4): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: Invalid argument
> ping: sendto: Invalid argument
>
>
> Looking up a domain using dig I get similar errors.  It actually returns the
> info I want but I still get the errors.
> [root 7]> dig www.google.com
> /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1151:
> internal_send: 71.4.48.2#53: Invalid argument
> /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1151:
> internal_send: 71.4.48.3#53: Invalid argument
>
> 71.4.48.2 and 71.4.48.3 are my DNS.
>
>
> So what I thought I'd do is move to 6.2-RELEASE.  What I wanted to do is
> install the source code from
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/src/* and do a
> build world and build kernel.  I assume that's really all I need to build a
> new system.  Are there any caveats to do an upgrade this way?

Iff you really do want to move back to 6.2-RELEASE,
I would advise building from the security branch, so
in your supfile make sure you have
tag=RELENG_6_2

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