Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:09:57 +0100 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_le unit number change? Message-ID: <3a142e750811260909i7ea4dca4ib70f9b2102a3c5c6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ggjphj$10s$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <1d6d20bc0811260656t101ddb0eu35296ac973c6ba10@mail.gmail.com> <ggjphj$10s$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On 11/26/08, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote: > Jia-Shiun Li wrote: >> I use vmware to run freebsd. >> >> recent update of 8-current changed the unit number of the virtual >> network interface, an emulated if_le. usually the unit number should >> start from 0 ,namely le0. But after updating the source, le0 becomes >> le1. This makes interface name mismatching that in rc.conf. I checked >> the commit log but there seems nothing related in sys/dev/le. So >> should this be caused by something else? > > I have the same thing, but I thought it was just my bad luck sice I'm > working on the kernel. If it's the same thing you should notice in your > dmesg that both "le0" and "le1" are actually "detected" (I presume > wrongly, or at least that one of them is wrong) but ifconfig recognizes > only "le1" and errors out at any operation with le0. I can "reproduce" problem with 8-current (inside qemu) as guest on (same) 8-0 CURRENT. But I can not reproduce it with if_bfe, ndis, wlan, if_rum2 which are not emulated. -- Paul
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