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Date:      Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:14:54 -0600
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.2 SL/IP Install - can't get ifconfig to work...
Message-ID:  <37684C0E.330B7FA0@softweyr.com>
References:  <199906162106.RAA07359@lakes.dignus.com>

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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


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