Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 16:11:32 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@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 Message-ID: <9508132011.AA10129@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508131944.VAA02331@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199508131944.VAA02331@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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<<On Sun, 13 Aug 1995 21:44:04 +0200 (MET DST), J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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
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