Bug #3232
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tun/tap: get error message 'create: bad value' when the interface already exists
Added by liweitianux about 4 years ago.
Updated about 4 years ago.
Description
When the interface already exists, ifconfig complains 'create: bad value', which is not clear enough compared to say that the interface already exists.
Example:
- ifconfig tun0 create
- ifconfig tun0 create
ifconfig: create: bad value
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It seems that on DragonFly, after creating the 'tun0' interface, run the same command 'ifconfig tun0 create' again, 'ifconfig' takes the 'create' option as ordinal argument to configure the 'tun0' interface. So we get the 'create: bad value' error message.
Tried the same test on FreeBSD, but FreeBSD's 'ifconfig' doesn't have this issue and show the error: interface tun0 already exists.
Need to look at FreeBSD's ifconfig code and sync it over.
- Status changed from New to Resolved
Fixed in commit 421c46af64c8b876df8356afa8a3af5fa977fdf1.
Credit to FreeBSD :-)
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