ifconfig alias

[Sergey V. Dyatko]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:12:12 -0800
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at komquats.com> wrote:

> 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 at 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# 
> 

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