Re: extensible ifconfig

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 06:26:18PM +0200, Pierre Pronchery wrote:
> David Young wrote:
> > I have refactored ifconfig to get rid of many global variables
> > and to improve extensibility.  Please apply the patch,
> > ftp://cuw.ojctech.com/users/netbsd-81aa8ffc/ifconfig.patch, and test!
> > 
> > I have lightly tested IPv4, IPv6, 802.11, tunnel, and media configuration.
> > I especially need your help to test AppleTalk, ISO, carp(4), agr(4),
> > and vlan(4) configuration.
> 
> With -current as of May 9th, I get this on my sparc64 machine:
> # ifconfig vlan0 vlan 1 vlanif hme0
> ifconfig: SIOCAIFADDR: Address family not supported by protocol family
> 
> This worked with the same kernel, before updating the userland (which
> was months old).
> 
> Can this be related to your latest changes?

Thanks for the report.  Update to src/sbin/ifconfig/vlan.c revision 1.9.
I believe that will fix it.

Dave

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