error - ? - Address already in use

Shulhan ms at kilabit.info
Wed Apr 13 19:45:10 UTC 2022


On Wed, 13 Apr 2022 18:45:24 +0100
lejeczek <peljasz at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi guys
> 
> what is below error the symptom of?
> 
> -> $ wg-quick up wg-r2
> [#] ip link add wg-r2 type wireguard
> [#] wg setconf wg-r2 /dev/fd/63
> [#] ip -4 address add 10.3.3.254/24 dev wg-r2
> [#] ip link set mtu 1320 up dev wg-r2
> RTNETLINK answers: Address already in use
> [#] ip link delete dev wg-r2
> 
> I'll only add that I looked into "obvious" places and found 
> nothing.
> many thanks, L.

My guess is another wg network is already up using the same IP address.
You may check using `wg show` to see the active endpoint or other
net tools like `ip` or `ifconfig` to list of active net devices.

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