Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 12:06:47 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com> Cc: "freebsd.questions" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: /kernel: rtinit: wrong ifa Message-ID: <9512081706.AA15001@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951207220431.8841A-100000@panix.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951207220431.8841A-100000@panix.com>
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<<On Thu, 7 Dec 1995 22:07:37 -0500 (EST), Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com> said: > Dec 6 00:15:20 /kernel: rtinit: wrong ifa (0xf0539680) was (0xf04dee00) > Dec 7 07:50:32 /kernel: rtinit: wrong ifa (0xf054ee00) was (0xf04dee00) What this means is that, in the process of trying to configure a network interface, the address which was specified for the new interface matched one that already belonged to another interface. The code is basically giving you a very cryptic warning to the effect that `what you asked me to do doesn't make any sense, but I'll force it through anyway'. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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