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.
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