On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Steven Campbell wrote:
> When my machine is trying to configure its 2 ethernet cards ( 1 MACE, 1
> Asante NIC), it gives me this error:
> 
> configuring network interfaces: mc0 ae0ifconfig: SIOCAIFADDR: File exists
> 
> What is the machine trying to tell me?

Hm, are you trying to configure an interface alias with the same IP
address as another machine on your network? I get that if I do something
like:

ifconfig ep0 alias 10.1.1.67

and 10.1.1.67 is already on the net. "File exists" is actually supposed to
mean "IP address exists" :)