Possible bug in ifconfig regarding ip addresses and fibs

Alan Somers asomers at freebsd.org
Fri Jun 16 16:39:50 UTC 2017


On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Steven Crangle <
Steven at stream-technologies.com> wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
>
> Thanks for the fast reply.
>
> I actually think I had the fib 5 part appended to the line previously, but
> had somehow removed it in my repeated attempts! Either way, I just tried
> your solution, and it results in the same behaviour.
>
>
> The initial two IP's are assigned, but the final 192.168.124.216 is not.
>
> When i get chance, I'll try moving the mgmt IP from the 124 range to
> something else and repeating, as I'm sure it's some sort of interaction
> between manee and mgmt. Since the commands are successful if I change the
> final addresses IP to a different range!
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Steven
>

What's your value of net.add_addr_allfibs ?  If should probably be 0,
depending on what exactly your trying to do.
Also, this bug might be relevant:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189088

If you have the option of using different IP addresses, then that will
definitely be the easiest solution.

-Alan


More information about the freebsd-net mailing list