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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCGIFFLAGS): no such interface
Date: 12 Jun 1995 13:52:00 +0200
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Etienne Finet  <efinet@insist.com> wrote:
>What is the problem here?
>How can I resolve it?

You forgot to say us for which command.  You've attempted to operate
on some non-existent network interface.  ``netstat -i'' lists you all
known interfaces.

(SIOCGIFFLAGS == ``socket I/O, command get interface flags'')
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)