From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 23 05:18:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA07540 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 05:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA07535 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 05:18:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id FAA03712; Thu, 23 May 1996 05:17:53 -0700 (PDT) To: tqbf@enteract.com cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] ifconfig, alias, arp, wrong address In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 May 1996 06:50:35 CDT." <199605231150.GAA06630@enteract.com> Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 05:17:53 -0700 Message-ID: <3710.832853873@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > For some weird reason, every once in a while, the interface displays > (in ifconfig) one of the alias addresses instead of the real address. > This is no big deal, because everything still works (including the "real" > address)... more disconcerting, however, is that the netmask gets reset > to 0xffffffff (the netmask for the alias address), causing arp to scream > at me while I'm doing important things like IRC. That's very strange indeed. Before we try to debug this, however, can you try something first? If you have *any* NIC other than the Intel Etherexpress around, could you try swapping that into this machine? The ix0 driver is really really broken in lots of interesting ways and is currently slated for a complete rewrite (pending the resolution of some paperwork issues with Intel), so I don't trust one in any machine (we have about 10 of them on a shelf, if anyone's interested in buying a stack of them real cheap :-). I'd suggest an SMC or Compex card of some sort - the things are very cheap these days! Jordan