ifa_add_loopback_route: insertion failed with ifconfig wlan0 up

[Dominique Goncalves]

Hi

2011/4/6 Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet at gmail.com>:
> On 6 April 2011 11:35, Dominique Goncalves
> <dominique.goncalves at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've installed FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE on soekris net4801 with Atheros
>> 9280 (mini pci card) as an access point using hostapd, so far it works
>> . Sometimes I need to disable wireless with ifconfig wlan0 down but
>> each times I run ifconfig wlan0 up, the kernel produces this error
>>
>> ifa_add_loopback_route: insertion failed
>>
>> is this a problem ? or maybe there is a better way to disable/enable wireless ?
>>
>
> I see this too with a dumb test:
>
> vlan5: flags=8003<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>        ether 00:00:00:00:00:00
>        inet6 fe80::21a:64ff:fe68:d005%vlan5 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa
>        inet 192.168.13.13 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.13.13
>        nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
>        vlan: 0 parent interface: <none>
>
> On 8.1 ifconfig vlan5 up gives:
> ifa_add_loopback_route: insertion failed

I guess I need to submit a PR.

What step did you used to reproduce the problem ? I tried (on 8.2) to
create a vlan but was not able to reproduce the error.

>
> On head ifconfig vlan5 down gives:
> interface address is missing from cache = 0  in delete
>
> --
> wbr,
> pluknet
>

Regards.

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