conf/35726: Won't let me use ifconfig on the interfaces after upgrade to latest OS

[Max Laier]

The following reply was made to PR conf/35726; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Max Laier <max at love2party.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, peter at striked.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: conf/35726: Won't let me use ifconfig on the interfaces after upgrade to latest OS
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:21:40 +0100

 > haven# /sbin/dhclient lnc1 lnc0
 > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
 > dhclient: New IP Address(lnc0): 24.82.66.238
 > dhclient: New Subnet Mask (lnc0): 255.255.252.0
 > dhclient: New Broadcast Address(lnc0): 24.82.67.255
 > dhclient: New Routers: 24.82.64.1
 > haven#
 
 The EEXISTS above comes from in.c (rtinit) when one tries to add an
 address in an already existing prefix: ("inet 24.82.66.245 netmask
 0xfffffc00" on lnc0 has the same prefix as the address your dhcp is
 trying to give to lnc1)
 
 http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/in.c.diff originally done for my CARP
 port should fix/work around it. Can you, please give it a try?
 
 The code was obtained from WIDE via OpenBSD.
 
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 Best regards,
  Max                          mailto:max at love2party.net