[SunHELP] ifconfig SIOCSIFBRDADDR error on solaris 7

[rmolugurk at yahoo.com]

Hi,

 I am getting the following error on solaris 7 when I
try to add a logical IP address -

ifconfig hme0:5 10.1.11.124 0xffffff00 broadcast
10.1.11.255 up
ifconfig: SIOCSIFBRDADDR: hme0:5: Bad address
---------------------------------------------
After this error, it created  as follows (which is
wrong) when I do "ifconfig -a"


hme0:5: flags=851<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.11.124 --> 255.255.255.0 netmask
ff000000
----------------------------------------------
Currently I already have the following IP addresses on
this machine :

lo0: flags=849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 8232
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
hme0:
flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.11.122 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
10.1.11.255
        ether 8:0:20:c2:db:e8
hme0:1:
flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.11.128 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
10.1.11.255
hme0:10:
flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.11.137 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
10.1.11.255
hme0:11:
flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.11.140 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
10.1.11.255
hme0:12:
flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.11.143 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
10.1.11.255
hme0:13:
flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.11.145 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
10.1.11.255
hme0:14:
flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.11.148 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
10.1.11.255
hme0:15:
flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.11.153 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
10.1.11.255
hme0:16:
flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.11.152 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
10.1.11.255
hme0:2:
flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.11.129 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
10.1.11.255
hme0:3:
flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.11.130 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
10.1.11.255
hme0:4:
flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.11.131 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
10.1.11.255
hme0:7:
flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.11.134 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
10.1.11.255
hme0:8:
flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.11.135 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
10.1.11.255
hme0:9:
flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.11.136 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
10.1.11.255

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