On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Tom T. Thai wrote:

: i used to have no problems doing (on 1.0A NetBSD):
: 
: ifconfig ed0 inet 204.130.134.30 netmask 255.255.255.0 alias
: 
: but now on 1.2d and g, I get errors:

: # ifconfig ed0 inet alias 204.130.134.30
: ifconfig: SIOCAIFADDR: File exists

I've seen this happening since 1.2, and I'm not quite sure why it returns an
error on *successfully* adding the alias.  (Try it a second time and notice
that you get no error, but the alias isn't added again.)  This seems to be
the opposite of expected results.

It doesn't hurt, because it still _works_, but it's a brain teaser.

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