On 10/06/13(Mon) 02:05, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 06:34:27PM +0200, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > > inet 172.26.153.50 0xffffff00 NONE mtu 1398 > > > > in6_unlink_ifa: interface address 0xffff800000624a00 has no prefix > > in6_unlink_ifa: interface address 0xffff800000624a00 has no prefix > > The error message is triggered by ifconfig lo1 create up. With > address instead of pointer logging and sysctl net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_debug=1 > you see the source of the problem. > > in6_unlink_ifa: interface address ::0001 has no prefix > in6_ifattach_loopback: failed to configure the loopback address on lo1 > (errno=17) > > It is a different issue that creating lo1 tries to add a ::1 address. > But when this fails, it is correct that it has no prefix. So don't > log an error here.
I'm not sure to understand here, you're saying that is it correct that lo1 has no prefix because it is a loopback interface or because, in this case adding an IPv6 address failed? Martin