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Date:      Thu, 27 Mar 1997 08:16:17 -0600
From:      "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com>
To:        rmike@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ppp and SIOCAIFADDR: File exists
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970327081617.00ba6ac0@mixcom.com>

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At 08:35 AM 3/27/97 +0100, Michael Ranner wrote:
>
>Hello there!
>
>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.

This is normal, at least when you alias an IP to the ether port.

>Sometimes I get also the message "rtinit: wrong ifa ...", but I dont 
>know, if this has something to do with the first error message.

No clue.


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Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator
jeff@mixcom.net

MIX Communications
Serving the Internet since 1990



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