Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 23:07:12 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: ifconfig problem in -current Message-ID: <19970413230712.AV02454@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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After finally upgrading my machine to a post-Lite2 system, each
ifconfig for my SLIP interface causes an error message. The system is
usable nevertheless, but the error message is annoying. This didn't
happen before the Lite2 integration (the scripts remained the same).
This can easily be demonstrated:
uriah # netstat -ran
Routing tables
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 6 2002 lo0
192.168 link#1 UC 0 0
192.168.0.1 0:a0:24:55:7a:c3 UHLW 0 22 lo0
As one can see, the routing table is almost empty, except a local
network (that won't be routed to the outside).
uriah # ifconfig -a
vx0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether 00:a0:24:55:7a:c3
sl0: flags=9010<POINTOPOINT,LINK0,MULTICAST> mtu 552
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
(All irrelevant interfaces omitted for brevity.)
Now, go and configure the SLIP interface:
uriah # ifconfig sl0 193.175.26.65 193.175.26.94 netmask 0xffffffff
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
Hmm, so what? Which ``File'' (aka. route) does already exist?
--
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. ;-)
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