Re: intermittent issue ifconfig cannot assign link-local address

[Brian A. Seklecki]

On 4/27/2013 10:08 PM, STEPHEN JONES wrote:

I'm seeing an issue with ifconfig failing in an unpredictable way which may be 
related to inet6.

For instance:

$ ksh network stop
Stopping network.


Before running your simple ifconfig(8), try to exec without flags and 
check to see if there's an IPv6 link-local address auto-assigned.

There should be an existing link-local IPv6 address:
    fe80::[v4-address-rewrite]/64

Also, you can ktrace the process to see which sysctls flail

~BAS