Bug#515828: "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address" during network ??restart

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 03:24:28PM -0500, fayaz wrote:
> Package: network
> Severity: -1
> 
> I have 11 virtual network interface created. Everything works fine, but 
> everytime I restart network I get this error.
> 
> dedicated:~# /etc/init.d/networking restart
> Reconfiguring network interfaces...SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested 
> address
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address
> done.
> 
> I get this error message in Etch and recently I upgraded to Lenny but it 
> persists.

This doesn't look like a kernel problem, but rather with your configuration.
How did you configure your system, using /etc/network/interfaces or some
higher level tool?

Cheers,
        Moritz