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ifconfig error works second time

From: evanh@sco.COM (Evan Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: SCO 5.0.4 & Morning Star PPP
Date: 28 Oct 1999 19:48:29 GMT
Message-ID: <7va9ad$i8r$1@hobbes.sco.com> 
References: <RfUR3.449$BJ3.20428@news1-hme0> 


Don't blame me, I voted for "Stephen Burns" <Stephen.Burns@cwcom.net>.
>2002:940510645:pppd: Fatal system error: Can't ifconfig du0 (SIOCSIFADDR):
>File exists

This irritatingly nonspecific error message almost always means the
local-side host route already exists.  The reason it works the second time
is that in trying to create the interface, pppd destroys the existing route,
so that the second attempt will succeed.

This could happen if you configured your PPP connection so that it has
the same address as some other interface on your system--your NIC card,
or another PPP connection.  If so, the solution is either 1) change the
local address of the PPP connection to something currently unused, or
2) add "route delete -host <local_addr>" to your Autostart file before
running pppd.

Oh, and don't run routed.

-- 
                  Evan Hunt   -   evanh at sco dot com

        "The wages of sin are death.  But after taxes are taken out,
         it's just a sort of tired feeling."  - Paula Poundstone

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