Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:14:54 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.2 SL/IP Install - can't get ifconfig to work... Message-ID: <37684C0E.330B7FA0@softweyr.com> References: <199906162106.RAA07359@lakes.dignus.com>
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Thomas David Rivers wrote:
>
> To add more to this - tracing through in.c in the kernel,
> I see that when you configure an interface it eventually
> works its way down to rtrequest - to add a route for
> the new interface.
>
> I believe rtrequest() is the one returning EEXIST which is
> what causes ifconfig on sl0 to always complain "File exists".
>
> Now - why would rtrequest() believe there's a route already
> there?
Probably because there is one. ;^)
netstat -rn before and after the ifconfig should allow you to see
what has changed. I suspect it might be your default route, but
you'd have to look to be sure.
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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