From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 16 18:15:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F5B415055 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:15:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id SAA02790; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:14:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id SAA14962; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:14:57 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA17765; Wed, 16 Jun 99 18:14:54 PDT Message-Id: <37684C0E.330B7FA0@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:14:54 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas David Rivers Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.2 SL/IP Install - can't get ifconfig to work... References: <199906162106.RAA07359@lakes.dignus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message