From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 22 16:14:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA25172 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:14:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.tribe.com ([205.184.207.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA25152 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:13:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.tribe.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA26291; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:13:47 -0700 From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199604222313.QAA26291@bubba.tribe.com> Subject: ifconfig aliases To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:13:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This is with FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Tue Apr 9 18:59:00 PDT 1996 Seems like the two commands marked below generate error messages backwards ... the second one should have the error message, not the first. Does anyone else see this? Seems to be coming from function in_ifinit() in netinet/in.c (but that's as far as I got). $ ifconfig ed0 ed0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.22 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ether 00:00:e8:cd:1b:b8 =>$ ifconfig ed0 192.168.0.97 alias ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists $ ifconfig ed0 ed0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.22 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 inet 192.168.0.97 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ether 00:00:e8:cd:1b:b8 =>$ ifconfig ed0 192.168.0.97 alias $ ifconfig ed0 ed0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.22 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 inet 192.168.0.97 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ether 00:00:e8:cd:1b:b8 -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Whistle Communications Corporation