kern/185984: ifconfig igb0 fails after upgrade to FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE

[Gleb Smirnoff]

The following reply was made to PR kern/185984; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at FreeBSD.org>
To: Peter Schultze <petersch at cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/185984: ifconfig igb0 fails after upgrade to FreeBSD
 10.0-RELEASE
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:19:22 +0400

   Peter,
 
 On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 06:44:48AM +0000, Peter Schultze wrote:
 P> >Description:
 P> After upgrading a x86_64 machine with igb interfaces from 9.2-RELEASE to 10.0-RELEASE the OS boots, but networking remains offline. ifconfig by hand on the console gives
 P> 
 P> # ifconfig igb0 10.1.2.3
 P> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument
 P> 
 P> The same problem has apparently been observed in Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
 P> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736238
 P> >How-To-Repeat:
 P> run ifconfig igb0 <ip> on 10.0-RELEASE
 P> >Fix:
 
 Can you please confirm that the /sbin/ifconfig binary was upgraded?
 
 Does that happen with igb0 only? Can you configure an address on lo0?
 
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 Totus tuus, Glebius.