Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 16:48:17 -0700 (MST) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: rmike@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp and SIOCAIFADDR: File exists Message-ID: <199703272348.QAA25504@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970327083119.428A-100000@dwarf.tu-graz.ac.at> from "Michael Ranner" at Mar 27, 97 08:35:37 am
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Michael Ranner recently lamented:
> I have problems with /usr/sbin/ppp. Every second start I get the error
> message "SIOCAIFADDR: File exists". But the output of the ppp.log seems
> to be ok, and it also says "PPP on dwarf", so that it seems it has a ppp
> connection.
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You're adding a default route when the PPP link comes up, right? But
you're not deleteing any existing default route first, right? In
ppp.linkup, before you 'add 0 0 HISADDR', try 'delete 0 0':
MYADDR:
delete 0 0
add 0 0 HISADDR
> Sometimes I get also the message "rtinit: wrong ifa ...", but I dont
> know, if this has something to do with the first error message.
Yeah, something to do with the ifa_addrlist in the PPP if structure.
Deleting the old address should take care of this problem.
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"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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