ifa_add_loopback_route: insertion failed with ifconfig wlan0 up

[Sergey Kandaurov]

On 8 April 2011 18:10, Dominique Goncalves
<dominique.goncalves at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Here it is.

# ifconfig vlan5 create
# ifconfig vlan5 192.168.13.16/32
# ifconfig vlan5 down
# ifconfig vlan5 up

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