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[RAC] : During Modification Of Public Network Information oifcfg setif -global Failed with 'PRIF-15: invalid subnet value specified' (Doc ID 2891094.1)

Last updated on APRIL 17, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 19.15.0.0.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

19c Grid infrastructure env.

One of cluster is being moved to different tenant and public/VIP interfaces has changed.

When user tries  ' Changing public network interface, subnet or netmask' as per How to Modify Public Network Information including VIP in Oracle Clusterware (Note  276434.1)

 

$ sudo /u01/grid/19.3.0/bin/oifcfg setif -global eth0/255.xxx.254.0:public
PRIF-15: invalid subnet value specified

 

For example:
              % $CRS_HOME/bin/oifcfg delif -global eth0/10.X.156.0
              % $CRS_HOME/bin/oifcfg setif -global eth0/10.X.166.0:public

O Interface details 

#ip link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:xx:xx:91:84:f7 brd ff:xx:xx:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 9000 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:xx:xx:91:4d:f2 brd ff:xx:xx:ff:ff:ff

 O ifcofnig 

$ ifconfig -a
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.xx.154.76 netmask 255.xxx.254.0 broadcast 10.xx.155.255
inet6 fe80::xxxx:xxxx:fe91:84f7 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:xx:xx:91:84:f7 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 53034 bytes 6866287 (6.5 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 1878 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 60104 bytes 75986584 (72.4 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

eth1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 9000
inet 192.xxx.1.1 netmask 255.xxx.255.0 broadcast 192.xxx.1.255
inet6 fe80::xxxx:xxxx:fe91:4df2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:xx:xx:91:4d:f2 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 1538530 bytes 2060588345 (1.9 GiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 34 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 1450274 bytes 1873741977 (1.7 GiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

 

Changes

 

Cause

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