misc/127266: gif tunnel error ifconfig: SIOCSIFPHYADDR: Can't assign requested address

[Edwin Groothuis]

The following reply was made to PR kern/127266; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org>
To: Serg Livitin <admin at netadmin.ru>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/127266: gif tunnel error ifconfig: SIOCSIFPHYADDR: Can't assign requested address
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:10:50 +1000

 On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 08:39:35AM +0000, Serg Livitin wrote:
 > my ifconfig:
 > sis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 >         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
 >         inet 192.168.0.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
 >         ether 00:16:ec:44:e3:a8
 >         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
 >         status: active
 > xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 >         options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
 >         inet 192.168.1.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
 >         ether 00:04:76:a1:97:ef
 >         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
 >         status: active
 > fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 >         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
 >         inet 79.165.217.154 netmask 0xfffff000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
 >         ether 00:50:8b:5f:f2:4a
 >         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
 >         status: active
 > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
 >         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
 >         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
 >         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
 > gif0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
 >         tunnel inet 79.165.217.154 --> 212.248.60.138
 >         inet 192.168.0.254 --> 192.168.8.254 netmask 0xffffff00
 > gif3: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
 >         tunnel inet 79.165.217.154 --> 81.195.226.74
 >         inet 192.168.0.254 --> 192.168.2.254 netmask 0xffffff00
 > 
 > [Home]gw# ifconfig gif14 create
 > [Home]gw# ifconfig gif14 tunnel 79.165.217.154 212.248.60.138
 > ifconfig: SIOCSIFPHYADDR: Can't assign requested address
 
 You already used that address on gif0.
 
 Edwin
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