From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 12 7:50:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.netvision.net.il (alpha.netvision.net.il [194.90.1.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB83B1558B for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 07:50:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danhil@cwnt.com) Received: from unspecified.host (ras3-p218.hfa.netvision.net.il [62.0.147.218]) by alpha.netvision.net.il (8.9.3/8.8.6) with SMTP id RAA24546 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:49:51 +0200 (IST) Received: from 192.168.0.46 ([192.168.0.46]) by 192.168.0.1 (WinRoute 3.04g) with SMTP; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:49:49 +0200 Message-ID: <055801bf5d14$c463ff00$2e00a8c0@cwnt.co.il> From: "Daniel Hilevich" To: Subject: 'File Exists' message in ifconfig Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:50:36 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1255" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I keep getting the message 'ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists' when I configuring an interface. The interface I'm configuring works above the sppp interface. I noticed that in the sppp driver code, the first thing it does upon recieving an SIOCSIFADDR ioctl (function aifioctl) is to call if_up(ifp). Maybe this is the problem? Thanx --- Daniel Hilevich mailto:danhil@cwnt.com Tel: +972-4-9592203 ext. 214 Charlotte's Web Networks LTD. http://www.cwnt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message