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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address" during network restart
- From: fayaz <fayaz@fayax.info>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:24:28 -0500
- Message-id: <20090217202428.20275.97678.reportbug@dedicated.fayax.info>
Package: network
Severity: -1
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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.
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- To: 515828-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address" during network ??restart
- From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
- Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 23:36:12 +0200
- Message-id: <20100530213612.GA8121@galadriel.inutil.org>
- In-reply-to: <20090901195610.GA22188@galadriel.inutil.org>
- References: <20090217202428.20275.97678.reportbug@dedicated.fayax.info> <20090901195610.GA22188@galadriel.inutil.org>
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 09:56:10PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> 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?
No further feedback, closing the bug.
Cheers,
Moritz
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