>
> Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> >
> > To add more to this - tracing through in.c in the kernel,
> > I see that when you configure an interface it eventually
> > works its way down to rtrequest - to add a route for
> > the new interface.
> >
> > I believe rtrequest() is the one returning EEXIST which is
> > what causes ifconfig on sl0 to always complain "File exists".
> >
> > Now - why would rtrequest() believe there's a route already
> > there?
>
> Probably because there is one. ;^)
>
> netstat -rn before and after the ifconfig should allow you to see
> what has changed. I suspect it might be your default route, but
> you'd have to look to be sure.
>
netstat isn't on the install mfsroot (which is was) - but I tracked
this down to a kernel bug.
See PR#12251.
Basically, if you do the slattach _before_ the ifconfig, the ifconfig
will fail because the kernel tries to add the route twice.
- Dave Rivers -
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