From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 27 10:07:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA02493 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:52:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA02435 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:52:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id GAA04039 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 06:25:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id IAA25122; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 08:24:15 -0600 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma025078; Thu Mar 27 14:23:47 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970327081617.00ba6ac0@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 08:16:17 -0600 To: rmike@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: ppp and SIOCAIFADDR: File exists Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990