ifconfig on 4.10

[Daniel Bye]

On Fri, 22 October, 2004 6:55 pm, Scott Rothgaber said:
> I'm moving our mail server from 4.4 to 4.10. When I try to add addresses
> to the NIC, ifconfig doesn't seem to want to cooperate...
>
> s2<ROOT>[/var/CommuniGate]
>  > ifconfig fxp0 add 63.82.200.42/24
> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
>
> This is the same command that I used on the 4.4 machine. Has something
> changed? If this is a security thing, can it be disabled via sysctl?

Is the new address in the same network range as the original, primary
address on the interface?  If so, the netmask should be /32 or
255.255.255.255.

HTH

Dan

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