Re: boot errors

[Lawrence <ychim@ForeverMail.com>]

> > I have restalled debian 1.3.  When I boot it, I found the following
> > errors after the PPP copyright mesg.
> >   SIOCIFADDR no such device
> >   SIOCIFNETMASK no such device
> >   SIOCIFBRDADDR no such device
> 
> I see these too. I don't think it's anything to worry about. It has to do
> with lack of a network device. Like myself your machine probably has no
> ethernet card and relies on ppp for its net connection. As ppp is not
> active during this portion of the boot, these errors result from the
> this attempt.

Should I configure the ip address, netmask and broadcast address if I am
only using dialup PPP?

Lawrence


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