From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 13 13:11:48 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA02315 for current-outgoing; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 13:11:48 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA02308 ; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 13:11:45 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.3.6) id AA10129; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 16:11:32 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 16:11:32 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9508132011.AA10129@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: current@FreeBSD.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: ioctl(SIOCAIFADDR): File exists In-Reply-To: <199508131944.VAA02331@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199508131944.VAA02331@uriah.heep.sax.de> Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > once, while now, every invocation of ifconfig from the sliplogin > script causes > ioctl(SIOCAIFADDR): File exists 1) You have a bad combination of IP address and netmask, which overlaps something already configured in the system. Use the correct numbers. 2) The old route (or perhaps interface address) for the address you are configuring did not get deleted when it was last dropped. Make sure to delete it. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant