Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:12:12 -0800 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: ifconfig alias Message-ID: <201111250612.pAP6CCYb010140@slippy.cwsent.com>
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Sometime between Nov 9 and yesterday (Nov 23 at approximately noon PST) ifconfig alias has stopped working. Here's uname -a FreeBSD bob 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r227907M: Thu Nov 24 13:04:39 PST 2011 root@bob:/usr/obj/dsk03/src/svn-current/sys/BREAK i386 Here's the problem (interface doesn't matter -- on this machine vr0 and sk0 are affected). bob# ifconfig vr0 vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=82808<VLAN_MTU,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE> ether 00:16:17:8e:65:fe inet6 fe80::216:17ff:fe8e:65fe%vr0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6 inet 10.1.2.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.1.2.255 nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active bob# ifconfig vr0 10.1.2.2 netmask 0xffffffff alias bob# ifconfig vr0 vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=82808<VLAN_MTU,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE> ether 00:16:17:8e:65:fe inet6 fe80::216:17ff:fe8e:65fe%vr0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6 inet 10.1.2.2 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.1.2.2 nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active bob# A sample 8.2 system, showing how it should work: FreeBSD cwsys 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Wed Nov 23 20:29:36 PST 2011 root@cwsys:/export/obj/opt/src/svn-stable8/sys/KQLARGE i386 cwsys# ifconfig nfe0 nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=c219b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MA GIC,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE> ether 00:1e:8c:3e:1b:da inet 10.1.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.1.2.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpa use>) status: active cwsys# ifconfig nfe0 inet 10.1.2.99 netmask 0xffffffff alias cwsys# ifconfig nfe0 nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=c219b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MA GIC,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE> ether 00:1e:8c:3e:1b:da inet 10.1.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.1.2.255 inet 10.1.2.99 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.1.2.99 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpa use>) status: active cwsys# -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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