Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 12:42:40 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: SLIP connections failing Message-ID: <9605221642.AA09520@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <m0uMFPc-0008vnC@agora.rdrop.com> References: <m0uMFPc-0008vnC@agora.rdrop.com>
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<<On Wed, 22 May 1996 08:01:20 -0700 (PDT), batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) said: > Investigation shows that ifconfig is failing on the SIOCAIFADDR ioctl with > "File exists". This only happens with SLIP, not PPP, but seems to have > gotten worse in proportion to increasing PPP usage. This almost invariably means that the address you are attempting to add conflicts with a route already in the kernel routing table. I agree that it's confusing, and that the configure operation should probably be undone if it fails. If someone cares to give me a patch to do so, I would be happy to add it. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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