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Date:      Mon, 19 Apr 1999 23:08:58 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Gary Jennejohn <garyj@muc.de>
Cc:        hm@hcs.de, andreas.gaertner.gp@icn.siemens.de, freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.1 and 0.70 
Message-ID:  <20290.924556138@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:43:24 %2B0200." <199904192043.WAA28951@peedub.muc.de> 

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In message <199904192043.WAA28951@peedub.muc.de>, Gary Jennejohn writes:
>Hellmuth Michaelis writes:
>>>From the keyboard of Andreas Gaertner:
>>
>>> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
>>> 
>>> what does that mean?
>>
>>I tried to find out, but i did not found the cause.
>>
>
>as far as I can tell this is most probably coming from route.c in the RTM_ADD
>case. It means that there's already a route for this interface and a new one
>can not be added. This might occur because you already did a ``route add..''
>before the ifconfig. It could also be a side effect of sppp_set_ip_addr
>for dynamic addresses.

I belive I may have introduced this in if_spppsubr.c with a leak from
my hot-cell test lab here.  It is belived to be harmless.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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