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From: mdavis@sd.cts.com (Morgan Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with ifconfig alias
Date: 29 Sep 1995 16:18:20 GMT
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Phil Taylor (phil@zipmail.co.uk) wrote:

: ifconfig ed1 inet 194.70.220.59 netmask 0xffffff00 alias
: I always get the response :
: ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists

Try using 0xffffffff as your netmask.