kernel: route: message indicates error: File exists

POSIX.1 · 2025-11-09T19:02:16+0000

On 15.0-STABLE
grep error /var/log/console

Code:

Nov  9 19:13:31 mybox kernel: [7] route: message indicates error: File exists

The defaultroute has been configured properly and is working.
I cannot make any sense out of the error message. Any hints please?

atax1a · 2025-11-09T19:03:48+0000

can you elaborate on your network configuration? show the output of netstat -nr and /etc/rc.conf

nxjoseph · 2025-11-09T19:47:19+0000

POSIX.1 said:
On 15.0-STABLE

Is it customized? I've had some output from route(8) when I was disabled IPV6 support.

Also I wonder if there's more messages related to the line.

POSIX.1 · 2025-11-10T15:30:01+0000

atax1a nothing spectacular regarding network and route: Just a working defaultroute.
nxjoseph Yes customized.

WITHOUT_INET6=
WITHOUT_ROUTED=

The configuration is the same as on other RELEASE-14.3 systems here, but this error message does appear only on the new STABLE-15 testing box.

atax1a · 2025-11-10T16:40:02+0000

yeah, we would not build a kernel without ipv6 support. we don't use it, but taking it out doesn't do anything besides add complexity by moving away from the default config.