From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 09:18:36 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA28304 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 09:18:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA28298 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 09:18:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.4/8.7.5) id KAA03002; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 10:18:26 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199612201718.KAA03002@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: SIOCAIFADDR: File exists - in ppp To: dkeller@psln.com (Daniel Keller) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 10:18:25 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199612200123.RAA14531@psln1.psln.com> from "Daniel Keller" at Dec 19, 96 06:04:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Daniel Keller asked: > When I try to connect using ppp I get the following message: > > SIOCAIFADDR: File exists > > Could someone help me with this? Sure. In your ppp.linkup file, I bet you have a line like: add 0 0 HISADDR to add the other end of the PPP link as the default route. If you already have a default route, the route add operation reports EEXIST, to tell you that route already existed. The errno print routine interprets this as 'File exists' because the error messages predate sockets. (!!) If you don't want to see this message, add delete 0 immediately before the add line. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com