Date: Tue, 10 Dec 96 10:51:57 +0700 From: "Victor A. Sudakov" <victor@vas.tomsk.su> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, steve@edmweb.com Subject: Re: "talk" does not work. Please help. Message-ID: <ABTvDhomz0@vas.tomsk.su> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961209122642.1039A-100000@bitbucket.edmweb.com>
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> > 1. What does this "ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists" message mean? > > Is it an error? > > Not sure. I wouldn't worry about it too much. The "File exists" might seem > especially confusing, unless you consider the similarity between sockets > and files. *shrug* Do you have the same message when you issue this command? Or is it some local configuration bug? > > > 2. How can I assign the 10.0.0.1 alias to lo0 automatically on > > startup? I do not like the idea of issuing this command > > manually after each reboot. Shall I put it into some kind of > > startup file? > > In /etc/sysconfig there are lines like this: > > network_interfaces="lo0" > ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost" > > I guess you should add something like this: > > ifconfig_lo0="inet 10.0.0.1 alias" > No, I have tried this even before I asked here. It does not work. It seems that only one line per each interface is allowed in /etc/sysconfig. So, when I added a line like you advised, the system behaved as if this line were the only one for the lo0 interface. I am afraid the sysconfig mechanism is not designed for it. Indeed, what you do in sysconfig is assigning some string to a variable which is later read in some other startup files. Thus, think what happens, if you assign one value to a variable, then another value to the same variable. The first value will be just lost! May be I should put this line into /etc/netstart? Any other ideas? --- Victor A. Sudakov E-mail: victor@vas.tomsk.su Center of Information Technologies FidoNet: 2:5005/49 Tomsk Region Education Department Telephone: +7 3822 224916 Tomsk, Russian Federation Telefax: +7 3822 225912
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