From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed May 22 09:42:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA08967 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 09:42:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA08958 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 09:42:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA09520; Wed, 22 May 1996 12:42:40 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 12:42:40 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9605221642.AA09520@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: SLIP connections failing In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < 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