This looks like a similar problem to PR 11880.

http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=11880

	Its definitely a bug

		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --


On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Thorsten Jens wrote:

>
> I installed 1.5 on my VAXserver some days ago, and came across what
> might be a bug in the installation script.
>
> I did an ftpinstall from my linux machine, le0 is initialized
> correctly and everything works fine. But when rebooting, I found
> that /etc/ifconfig.le0 says:
>
> 10.10.10.22 netmask 0xff000000 media eth
>
> This gives an error, something like "wrong media subtype: eth".
> Deleting everything after the netmask makes the interface come up
> correctly.
>
> Is this a bug in the setup script?
>
> Thorsten
>