Subject: Re: Initial networking setup phase.
To: None <davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/20/1997 14:17:04
> 
> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Stewart King wrote:
> 
> > starting network
> > duplicate IP address 7f000001 sent from ethernet addres 00:c0:7b:5f:a0:96
> > arp_rtrequest: bad gateway valuertinit: wrong ifa (0x6b2b780) was
> > (0x6b2b300)
> > host12: bad value
> > #: bad value
> 
> Okay.  You're trying to configure the machine using an IP number that's
> already in use somewhere on the network.  Make sure you copied it right
> from MacTCP, and if you did, make sure MacTCP wasn't running when you
> started NetBSD.  That _could_ be a problem, perhaps -- it's a long shot,
> though, really.  :-)

Looking at the address, 0x7f == 127, so the address is 127.0.0.1. That's
the loopback address; you're trying to set two different interfaces ON
YOUR COMPUTER to the same address. Thus the ifa error (part of the
call used the ae0 interface, the rest found the lo0 interface).

Take care,

Bill