by This one has me tearing my hair out....
Solaris 2.5 on Sparc, latest recommended patches.
When I added my 31st virtual interface, thereby giving me 32 in total
from le0, to le0:31, quite a collection of programs started throwing up
errors.
One of the main programs that is completely broken by this is Solstice
Backup (networker) 4.1.2, which gives a set of errors such as :
get_myaddress: ioctl (get interface configuration): Invalid argument
is_myaddr: Invalid argument
With a bit of digging and examining some other programs which I DO have
source for which were also broken, it seems that the ioctl call
SIOCGIFCONF is now failing with EINVAL, and logical deduction would
suggest that this is what get_myaddress is using behind the scenes.
I'm assuming that there is some * bug in the code implementing
ioctl SIOCGIFCONF which doesn't like there being more than 31
interfaces, as the problem disappears the moment I remove that 32nd
interface.
I've looked in the FAQ, and I've looked at the current public patches.
I don't have a SunSolve account, coz my company hasn't yet 'seen the
need' to purchase a support contract, so I haven't been through all the
stuff on SunSolve. So I can't find anything about it.
So basically I'm stumped, and wonder if a) this is a known problem, and
b) if there's a patch/workaround/dead chicken for it?
Thanks in advance...
Sam.
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sam Eaton System Administrator, Cocoon Internet Services Ltd
"Fortified with essential bitterness and sarcasm"
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
X+(-) R(+) tv+ b+++>++++ DI++>+++ D---() G>+++ e++>++++ h r(++) y+(*)
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------