Subject: Re: [vserver] Unable to add Interface / RTNETLINK answers: Numerical result out of range
From: Oliver Welter <mail@oliwel.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:58:46 +0100

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KwangErn Liew schrieb:
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> 
> Oliver Welter wrote:
>> I am running a hostbox with two vlan interfaces, everything is doing
>> fine so far. Today I tried to add another interface to one of my guests.
>>
>> The current config has 3 interfaces all in the same vlan - works.
>> I added one new interface from the other vlan - when I now startup the
>> guest I get "RTNETLINK answers: Numerical result out of range".
>>
>> The IP Adress is not set on the host and so not avail inside the geust -
>> adding the IP to the host by hand and launching the guest still results
>> in the error message shown, but the new interface is operational
>> afterwards.
> 
> Knowing how you added the interface would be helpful to pinpoint what
> went wrong.
> 
Simply using the "ip" command:  ip addr add <IP>/<Maskbits> dev vlan3

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