From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 20 23:52:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA23293 for current-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 23:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA23275 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 23:52:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA10416 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 21 May 1997 08:52:07 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA03686; Wed, 21 May 1997 08:30:18 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970521083018.CB14886@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 08:30:18 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: All zeros still recognized as broadcast?? References: <19970519170904.LV61260@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705191619.MAA20016@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <19970519183606.JC27358@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705191656.MAA20128@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <19970519192709.LI31727@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705201443.KAA22975@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199705201443.KAA22975@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on May 20, 1997 10:43:25 -0400 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Garrett Wollman wrote: > > Anyway (and not only to Garrett), what's up with the ``File exists'' > > messages when configuring an interface? They are benign as it seems > > but annoying. > > They are indicative of a particular sort of configuration error where > you are attempting to add an interface address which is already in the > routing table as belonging to someone else (or some other interface). As i showed in my mails, there was just nothing in the routing table, yet all my attempts to ifconfig an interface yield a ``File exists''. (I wouldn't have asked otherwise, trust me. :) It is totally benign, in that the correct routes are being added nevertheless. Probably i need to CVS update again. uriah # netstat -ran Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire uriah # netstat -rAn Routing tables Internet: Address Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire f076154c (32) f0761534 : f0761564 f0761534 (root node) f0761564 (root node) uriah # ifconfig vx0 192.168.0.1 (OK) uriah # ifconfig bppp0 bppp0: flags=2811 mtu 1500 uriah # ifconfig bppp0 193.101.57.{162,161} ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists (Surprise) I think it happens for all p2p interfaces only, never for ethernet- type interfaces. It regularly happens when setting up a SLIP interface, that's where i noticed it first. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)