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Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 18:46:37 +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> <19970521083018.CB14886@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705211507.LAA25764@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
In-Reply-To: <199705211507.LAA25764@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on May 21, 1997 11:07:56 -0400
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As Garrett Wollman wrote:

> > uriah # ifconfig bppp0
> > bppp0: flags=2811<UP,POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,LINK1> mtu 1500
> > uriah # ifconfig bppp0 193.101.57.{162,161}
> > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
> 
> OK, now I see what is going on.  You are right, this error is
> unquestionably erroneous.  Not sure where it arises; can you remember
> when it first started appearing?

After i upgraded to post-Lite2.  (I deferred this upgrade for a long
time due to the release engineering for 2.2R.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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