On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:23 am, Tom McLaughlin wrote: > Hi, would someone be available to look at kern PR 87506? I found the > problem while building a jail on my 6.0-RC1 box. When setting an alias on > a vr device with ifconfig the alias address replaces the initial address > of the device. marcus_at_ took a look at the problem for me and provided the > patch for the vr interface which I tested and it resolved the problem. > Without the patch I can't create a jail that is network accessible. > > Marcus also notes in the PR that the rl, sis, ti, and tl may also be > affected by this bug. If anyone has any other questions or needs someone > to test any changes to the patch just let me know. I only have vr > interfaces on my FreeBSD machines though. Thanks. > > Tom I'm not sure that fix is really the right fix. The patch just makes vr(4) ignore changes to if_flags while the driver is up. Probably there is a bug in vr(4)'s handling of alias addresses. I did just reproduce this on my laptop's rl(4) interface though. I'll see if I can't figure out what is happening. -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Thu Oct 20 2005 - 14:49:56 UTC
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