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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!nntp.et.byu.edu!news.byu.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!usenet From: "Phillip J. Windley" <windley> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Can't assign requested address Date: 3 Aug 1995 19:07:41 GMT Organization: Laboratory for Applied Logic, Brigham Young University Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3vr6pt$7h3@hamblin.math.byu.edu> References: <3vo903$qkq@hamblin.math.byu.edu> <3vq5mt$bvp@molnir.brunel.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: bobcat.cs.byu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/715) To: Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk X-URL: news:3vq5mt$bvp@molnir.brunel.ac.uk >>Anyone know what this means? >> >> ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Can't assign requested address >> >>Its coming from within ifconfig on inet device ef0 when I try to add an alias. > >How are you adding the alias? I had the same problem when I tried > > ifconfig ef0 alias x.x.x.x > >until I realised that the syntax of the command should be > > ifconfig ef0 x.x.x.x alias > Nope, I'm doing the latter. Interesting observation though. Perhaps there's a clue in there about what's going wrong. >-- >=-[Opinion, n: See the above text for an example]=-=[Kibo #: e]-[RYRYRY]=-= >=-[The Silly Sod Society: To perfect and to swerve]=-[beable]-=[TP U BG]=-= >Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written >and another for which it wasn't.