ifconfig(8) fails to set MTU on multiple interfaces.
Jason Hellenthal
jhellenthal at dataix.net
Mon Jul 16 02:29:06 UTC 2012
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Originator: Jason Hellenthal
>Organization:
>Confidential: no
>Synopsis: ifconfig(8) fails to set MTU on multiple interfaces.
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: high
>Category: kern
>Class: sw-bug
>Release: FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE i386
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD disbatch.DataIX.local 8.3-STABLE FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE #23 r238498: Sun Jul 15 15:34:30 EDT 2012 jh at DataIX.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DISBATCH i386
>Description:
When using ifconfig(8) to change MTU of an interface it is not allowed.
# ifconfig lagg0 mtu 1492
ifconfig: ioctl (set mtu): Invalid argument
# ifconfig dc0 mtu 1492
ifconfig: ioctl (set mtu): Invalid argument
# ifconfig dc1 mtu 1492
ifconfig: ioctl (set mtu): Invalid argument
# ifconfig pflog0 mtu 120
ifconfig: ioctl (set mtu): Invalid argument
# ifconfig ath0 mtu 1500
ifconfig: ioctl (set mtu): Invalid argument
>How-To-Repeat:
See description.
>Fix:
No workaround known.
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