Re: Socket problems with latest -current

From: Bruce A. Mah <bmah_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:44:13 -0800
If memory serves me right, Doug Barton wrote:
> Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> 
>> BTW, I started looking at this because re_at_ needs to decide what to do
>> here for 6.2.  If a default (or even "normal") configuration is possible
>> to produce the problems you saw, we obviously can't ship this way.
> 
> Good news for you, I found the problem. Bad news for me, I'm
> apparently an idiot. Well, not quite an idiot, but I have a local
> script to set up the wired interface if it's connected, and the
> wireless if it's not. Somewhere in there I forgot about configuring
> lo0, but it was magically being done for me. With the change that hrs
> made to rc.d/auto_linklocal, the magic stopped happening, and in
> focusing on the new fe80::1 address I missed the fact that the IPv4
> address wasn't there. Why the change caused lo0 to stop being
> configured for IPv4 is a new mystery, but that one is more in my area.
> Sorry about the false alarm.

No worries...I'm glad that everything seems to be working!

Cheers,

Bruce.



Received on Sat Dec 16 2006 - 05:44:21 UTC

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