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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: networking problems
Date: 21 Sep 1995 09:21:05 +0200
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Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net> wrote:
>Hi, I am sorry, I have one more problem wiht my network setup in freebsd. 
>In the bootup messages I get:
>
>Writing to routing socket: File exist
>
>What file what is this? How can I fix it?

BSD provides only for 82 error return codes, so there apparently
wasn't enough space to spend the routing socket an ERXIST :-), that's
why it's abusing EEXIST instead.  Translate this into "Route already
exists" in your case.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)