ifconfig_lo0_alias0 does not work any more on 9-CURRENT - solved

[Vladimir Grebenschikov]

Hi 

Looks like now it is required to add 'inet ' prefix to ifconfig lines,
for os <= 8.0 it was not required, although 

corrected line:
ifconfig_lo0_alias0="inet 127.0.0.2/32"


> After upgrade RELENG_8 -> 9-CURRENT  following line in rc.con does not
> work any more for me. (after boot no alias address on loop-back
> interface).
> 
> ifconfig_lo0_alias0="127.0.0.2/32"
> 
> console output while is usual, without errors, but does not shows
> required address:
> 
> ---
> Starting Network: lo0 em0.
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>         options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         options=19b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
>         ether 00:15:58:82:36:1a
>         media: Ethernet autoselect
>         status: no carrier
> ---
> 
> Any ideas what the reason of such behaviour ?



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Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
vova at fbsd.ru