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From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To: Emre Bastuz <info@emre.de>
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Subject: Re: unable to set ip address during/after PPP?
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:33:12AM +0100, Emre Bastuz wrote:
> 
> I´m trying to run a 4.X box with multiple PPPoE connections (_not_ as a PPP
> bundle or something like that).
> 
> Warning: iface add: ioctl(SIOCAIFADDR, x.x.x.x -> y.y.y.y): File exists
> Error: ipcp_InterfaceUp: unable to set ip address
> 
> I know that this _used_ to work so I´m really wondering what goes wrong.

The usual cause of "File exists" here is a duplicate address on either end.
I would not expect to be able to have >1 non-bundled links to/from the same
address.

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