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Date:      Wed, 22 May 1996 12:42:40 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie)
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   SLIP connections failing
Message-ID:  <9605221642.AA09520@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <m0uMFPc-0008vnC@agora.rdrop.com>
References:  <m0uMFPc-0008vnC@agora.rdrop.com>

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<<On Wed, 22 May 1996 08:01:20 -0700 (PDT), batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) said:

> Investigation shows that ifconfig is failing on the SIOCAIFADDR ioctl with
> "File exists".  This only happens with SLIP, not PPP, but seems to have
> gotten worse in proportion to increasing PPP usage.

This almost invariably means that the address you are attempting to
add conflicts with a route already in the kernel routing table.  I
agree that it's confusing, and that the configure operation should
probably be undone if it fails.  If someone cares to give me a patch
to do so, I would be happy to add it.

-GAWollman

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