Ifconfig (DHCP?) configures two IPs in one IF

[Ashish SHUKLA]

Guojun Jin writes:

> This problem comes  in 8.1-R. I have seen it before and  thought I filed a report but cannot find it.
> I found one (bin/21292) for ifconfig, but it was for two NICs with a same IP. Now is a reversed case
> One NIC has two IPs.

> Here is the description:

> Due to DHCP server down, I manually configured rl0 to 192.168.0.10 for temporarily use.
> In the middle of working, DHCP came back and assigned  another IP on the rl0, now NIC is down
> due to two conflict IP addresses.

> rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>         ether 00:40:f4:d1:23:9a
>         inet 192.168.0.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>         inet 10.10.50.126 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.50.255
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active
> plip0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500


> I tried unplumb/delete rl0, but if does not  work.
> Before the bug can be fixed, is any way to fix the IP without rebooting the machine?

# ifconfig rl0 -alias 192.168.0.10

Above will cause 192.168.0.10 to be removed from the interface. For details,
see ifconfig(1).

HTH
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