kern/87506: [PATCH] Fix alias support on vr interfaces

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

The following reply was made to PR kern/87506; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>
To: John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/87506: [PATCH] Fix alias support on vr interfaces
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:05:11 -0400

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 John Baldwin wrote:
 | I've reproduced the same behavior on an rl(4) interface on my laptop,
 but it
 | only occurs if rl0 uses DHCP (and thus dhclient).  If I statically
 configure
 | rl0 then I can add aliases no problem.  Perhaps when an alias is added
 and
 | the chip is reset, dhclient thinks that the link has reset and tears
 down the
 | lease or something.
 |
 
 Does the vr patch fix this problem with rl (with the proper
 modifications, of course)?
 
 Joe
 
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 Joe Marcus Clarke
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