Upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE from 6.2-STABLE

[Mark Stout]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: illoai at gmail.com [mailto:illoai at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 9:12 PM
> To: Mark Stout
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE from 6.2-STABLE
>
>
> On 08/06/07, Mark Stout <mcs at vpm.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I recently upgraded from 5.4-RELEASE to 6.2-STABLE.  Now I'm
> having problems
> > with the TCP stack.  I suspect its because of code differences.
>  I may have
> > some older 5.4 code that was used during the build world process.  For
> > example, here's a partial ifconfig -a output
> >
> > fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
> >         inet 71.4.48.6 netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast 71.4.49.255
> >         inet 71.4.48.4 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 71.4.48.4
> >         inet 71.4.48.7 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 71.4.48.7
> >         inet 71.4.48.9 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 71.4.48.9
> >
> > What's interesting is I can ping 71.4.48.6 from the console.
> >
> > But I get the following whenever I ping any other aliased IP
> from the local
> > console.  I can ping these from other machines.
> > [root 6]> ping 71.4.48.4
> > PING 71.4.48.4 (71.4.48.4): 56 data bytes
> > ping: sendto: Invalid argument
> > ping: sendto: Invalid argument
> >
> >
> > Looking up a domain using dig I get similar errors.  It
> actually returns the
> > info I want but I still get the errors.
> > [root 7]> dig www.google.com
> > /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1151:
> > internal_send: 71.4.48.2#53: Invalid argument
> > /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1151:
> > internal_send: 71.4.48.3#53: Invalid argument
> >
> > 71.4.48.2 and 71.4.48.3 are my DNS.
> >
> >
> > So what I thought I'd do is move to 6.2-RELEASE.  What I wanted to do is
> > install the source code from
> >
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/src/* and do a
> > build world and build kernel.  I assume that's really all I
> need to build a
> > new system.  Are there any caveats to do an upgrade this way?
>
> Iff you really do want to move back to 6.2-RELEASE,
> I would advise building from the security branch, so
> in your supfile make sure you have
> tag=RELENG_6_2
>

I'd prefer to remain at 6.2-STABLE but I can't find where the problem is
with these IP errors.  I'm figuring I've got a mixed code and that's the
root cause but I'm not sure.


Thank you,
Mark Stout
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