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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: All zeros still recognized as broadcast??
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<<On Mon, 19 May 1997 19:27:09 +0200, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) said:

> Anyway (and not only to Garrett), what's up with the ``File exists''
> messages when configuring an interface?  They are benign as it seems
> but annoying.

They are indicative of a particular sort of configuration error where
you are attempting to add an interface address which is already in the
routing table as belonging to someone else (or some other interface).

-GAWollman

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