Re: 1.1 upgrade hassles
Fundamental wrote:
>
> hey everyone, ive just installed debian 1.1, everything went fine
> until i
> rebooted and i get the following errors...
>
> SIOCSFADDR: bad value
> SIOCSNETMASk: bad value
> SIOCSIFBRDADDRS: Network unreachable
> SIOCSADDRT: Network unreachable
I used to get errors like that when I'd boot my machine without the
network card installed. Make sure that the kernel is recognizing your
network card. (Check for eth0 in the dmesg.)
> Ive tried the following as broadcast address to no avail...
> 224.255.255.255
This looks like the broadcast address for:
> 224.0.0.0 (this one works on our solaris machines).
This is a network address. (The netmask would be 255.0.0.0)
> 203.17.176.225
Where did this come from???
The broadcast address is, by convention, the highest allowable address
on your network. It can be found by ORing your network address by the
inverse of the netmask. (Short answer: where the netmask says 0, use
255.)
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