I'm trying to get some confirmation of a problem I've been having on two separate FreeBSD 9 machines, one i386, one amd64, where interface aliases configured in /etc/rc.conf are not actually created, using the legacy ifconfig_nic0_alias0 method.
Syntax of Machine 1:
Syntax of Machine 2:
This worked flawlessly in and before FreeBSD 8, and it fails in FreeBSD 9 consistently over at least two months (I rebuild world once/twice a month).
There are zero errors anywhere. The dmesg -a output shows that the interfaces get created normally -- the alias creation however is nowhere to be seen. Creating the alias by hand is never a problem.
Any ideas? Is this syntax on the way out and being replaced with the ipv4_addrs_nic0 syntax, and if so, can 'polling' be activated using that syntax too? I'd rather not have a combination of both to achieve the exact same result ..
Syntax of Machine 1:
Code:
ifconfig_em0="inet aa.bb.141.196 netmask 255.255.255.224 polling"
ifconfig_em0_alias0="aa.bb.141.205 netmask 255.255.255.255 polling"
Syntax of Machine 2:
Code:
ifconfig_re0="inet xx.yy.159.11 netmask 255.255.255.255 polling"
ifconfig_re0_alias0="192.168.1.170 netmask 255.255.255.0 polling"
This worked flawlessly in and before FreeBSD 8, and it fails in FreeBSD 9 consistently over at least two months (I rebuild world once/twice a month).
There are zero errors anywhere. The dmesg -a output shows that the interfaces get created normally -- the alias creation however is nowhere to be seen. Creating the alias by hand is never a problem.
Any ideas? Is this syntax on the way out and being replaced with the ipv4_addrs_nic0 syntax, and if so, can 'polling' be activated using that syntax too? I'd rather not have a combination of both to achieve the exact same result ..