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Re: AmiTCP4.0Demo trouble

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From: Sean Walker
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:24
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Philip Stokes (phil@stokes.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> Sean Beebe (trekker@elysian.net) wrote:
> >  My dad and I have been trying to get everything working so we can logon 
> > to the internet through Amosaic V1.2 and we have had nothing but problems 
> > getting AmiTCP running right.  Does anyone in this newsgroup know what 
> > "ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Object exists" means??  This is our 
> > current hurdle.  I personally am running out of patience.  I want a 
> > browser up and running!  Anyone got any suggestions on how to correct 
> > this problem??  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks a million 
> > for taking the time to read and respond to this message.

> It means that the interface you are attempting to configure has already
> been configured with the address(es) that you are trying to pass to it,
> i.e. you are trying to do the same thing twice. It's not a fatal error
> AFAIK. It should just print a warning to the log and continue if
> everything else is configured right.

> Phil
> -- 
> Philip Stokes                                   phil@stokes.demon.co.uk
> Hertfordshire
> England

I have had no problems installing PPP several times on different
computers. The BEST thing to do is to download the PPP1_45.lha file from
Aminet if you do not already have it. Then you should follow the docs
in PPP for installing AmiTCP. The PPP docs were a BIG help to
configuring it all. Good luck. Any questions? Check below.
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From: walkers@ecs.ecs.csus.edu (Sean Walker)
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Subject: Re: AmiTCP4.0Demo trouble
Date: 28 Mar 1996 00:24:21 GMT
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