From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 25 4:34:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03E1937B401 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 04:34:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from exchange.wan.no (exchange.wan.no [80.86.128.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C489543FAF for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 04:34:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sten.daniel.sorsdal@wan.no) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: ifconfig alias file exists error Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:34:29 +0100 Message-ID: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F1F3C83@exchange.wanglobal.net> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: ifconfig alias file exists error Thread-Index: AcLyyi1D8jRCpeNzTOyOrjkhIjJy1AAADLfA From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sten_Daniel_S=F8rsdal?= To: "Murat USTUNTAS" , X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.3 required=5.0 tests=HOT_NASTY version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello all, > I want to put second IP on my nic cart. I have been using = FreeBSD-4.8-RC, > when i put the command, > ifconfig rl0 alias xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > returns me: > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists > What is the problem? > Regards, > Murat Ustuntas It could be that either there is a route for that network in your = routing table. Or that you have previously removed the IP address without also = specifying netmask and thus you have the route in your routing table.=20 - Sten To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message