Re: boot errors
Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
>
> > > > 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?
> >
> Well, that will not help, and may cause difficulties for the pppd daemon.
> Those items should be configured in the options file for pppd, but only if
> they are not determined by your ISP.
>
> In any case this will not quiet these error messages, but you should not
> be concerned about them either.
Eventually I quiet those three messages by commenting out the
IF/Netmask/Broadcast setting in the /etc/init.d/network.
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