Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 15:45:10 -0800 (PST) From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) To: d_burr@ix.netcom.com (Donald Burr) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what the heck is wrong here? (if anything) Message-ID: <9601092344.AA03888@tera.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960109124233.301A-100000@ncc-1701-d.starfleet.gov> from "Donald Burr" at Jan 9, 96 12:44:12 pm
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According to Donald Burr: > > Today, when I fired up my iij-ppp connection (auto-dialing, of course) to > get my morning e-mail, I got this message on the console: > > rtinit: wrong ifa (0xf08ba700) was (0xf08ba580) > > The PPP connection, however, seemed to work OK -- I was able to get my > mail, etc. But little messages like this always unnerve me (maybe I'm > just paranoid or over-cautious or something?). What does this mean, and > should I worry about it? Please, reassure me (or at least let me know > what could possibly be wrong so I can investigate) > This error msg comes from net/route.c. It seems to indicate that something is amiss in your /etc/hosts or /etc/sysconfig file. I had the same kind of complaint, modified my /etc/hosts table and the message went away. I changed something in /etc/sysconfig---actually a few lines---and not get the (benign) yelp: ``Network is unreachable'' from ppp..... .... gary kline
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