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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

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