Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:12:54 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: recent change to ifconfig breaks OpenVPN? Message-ID: <4A709126.5050102@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <B4AA014B-2444-40AA-A3A3-417E4B89DF90@lassitu.de> References: <B4AA014B-2444-40AA-A3A3-417E4B89DF90@lassitu.de>
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Stefan Bethke wrote:
> I just updated this afternoon (r195941), and after rebooting, OpenVPN
> has problems ifconfig'ing a tun interface.
>
> With sources from about one week ago, this is working:
> Jul 29 03:07:15 diesel openvpn_zs64[14785]: /sbin/ifconfig tun1
> 44.128.127.2 44.128.127.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 mtu 1500 up
> Jul 29 03:07:15 diesel openvpn_zs64[14785]: /sbin/route add -net
> 44.128.127.0 44.128.127.2 255.255.255.0
> Jul 29 03:07:15 diesel openvpn_zs64[14785]: /sbin/route add -net
> 44.128.64.0 44.128.127.1 255.255.192.0
>
> Now, the same sequence fails:
> Jul 29 17:31:41 diesel openvpn_zs64[1855]: /sbin/ifconfig tun1
> 44.128.127.2 44.128.127.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 mtu 1500 up
> Jul 29 17:31:41 diesel openvpn_zs64[1855]: FreeBSD ifconfig failed:
> external program exited with error status: 1
>
> Trying the same command manually gets me:
> /sbin/ifconfig tun1 44.128.127.2 44.128.127.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 mtu
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
have you tried it without using the same address on both ends?
> 1500 up
> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
>
> even though no address was assigned before.
>
> Another OpenVPN instance using tap continues to work.
>
>
> Stefan
>
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