help:: configuring two network interfaces--message->>ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists

[Nickolay A. Kritsky]

Hello kamal,

I am not sure but this may be the result of the attempt to assign inet
address from the subnet that is already used on the rl0 iface. If you
are sure that that you need this behaviour, use netmask of -1 on the
rl1 iface.

Tuesday, September 07, 2004, 11:10:30 AM, kamal kc wrote:

kk> i have run into a mysterious problem.
kk> The thing is that i wanted to configure to NIC cards.
kk> I just put the card in the slot and booted FreeBSD. The 
kk> card was detected. When i wanted to configure the nic card using the 
kk> ifconfig command the following error message was reported.
kk> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
kk> The same message was reported when i configured the rc.conf file and 
kk> rebooted the computer.
kk> Below i have copied the output of ifconfig and the rc.conf file
kk> in case it could help solve the problem.
kk> -----------------------------------------------------
kk> kamal# ifconfig
kk> rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
kk>         inet 192.168.10.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.10.255
kk>         inet6 fe80::250:fcff:feb6:4e1%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
kk>         ether 00:50:fc:b6:04:e1
kk>         media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
kk>         status: no carrier
kk> rl1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
kk>         inet6 fe80::2e0:4cff:feb0:cc%rl1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
kk>         ether 00:e0:4c:b0:00:cc
kk>         media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
kk>         status: no carrier
kk> lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
kk> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
kk>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
kk>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
kk>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
kk> ----------------------------------------------
kk> kamal# ifconfig rl1 192.168.10.2
kk> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
kk> kamal#
kk> ----------------------------------------------
kk> kamal# cat rc.conf
kk>  i
kk>  # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Tue Jan  1 00:34:50 2002
kk>  # Created: Tue Jan  1 00:34:50 2002
kk>  # Enable network daemons for user convenience.
kk>  # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
kk>  # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
kk>  linux_enable="YES"
kk>  sendmail_enable="YES"
kk>  gateway_enable="YES"
kk>  sshd_enable="YES"
kk>  hostname="kamal.com"
kk>  ifconfig_rl1="inet 192.168.10.1  netmask 255.255.255.0"
kk>  ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.10.2  netmask 255.255.255.0"
kk>  # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Tue Jan  1 01:29:12 2002
kk>  moused_enable="YES"
kk> kamal#
kk> ------------------------------------------------------------
kk> The nic card is detected and configurable in WINDOWS xp and 
kk> Redhat Linux 9
kk> Another info---
kk> one of the nic is built in with the board and another in add on.
kk> please help!!

                
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-- 
Best regards,
;  Nickolay A. Kritsky
; SysAdmin STAR Software LLC
; mailto:nkritsky at star-sw.com