From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 18 22: 1:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from desh.cse.iitd.ernet.in (mailer.cse.iitd.ac.in [202.141.68.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B395537B401 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 22:01:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from cse.iitd.ernet.in (root@poorvi.cse.iitd.ernet.in [10.20.3.12]) by desh.cse.iitd.ernet.in (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA21551 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 11:35:07 +0530 Received: from localhost (csu96154@localhost) by cse.iitd.ernet.in (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA22071 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 11:35:13 +0530 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: csu96154 owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 11:35:13 +0530 (IST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan X-Sender: csu96154@localhost.localdomain To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: ifconfig error Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Upon assigning an address to an interface, I get an error like this. For eg: # ifconfig lo2 inet 10.20.3.12 0xff000000 in6_ifattach_addaddr: rtrequest failed. errno = 17 <<<<---- the error The assignment succeeds, but still, any idea on what this error is and why it is produced ? Regards. __ Rakhesh Sasidharan rakhesh at cse.iitd.ac.in To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message