Re: Setting IP address not working
Alan Chandler wrote:
>On Tuesday 14 June 2005 22:55, Kent West wrote:
>
>
>>I'm coming into the middle of this thread, so I may be heading the wrong
>>direction. What does your "/etc/network/interfaces" file contain?
>>
>>
># The loopback network interface
>auto lo
>iface lo inet loopback
>
># The primary network interface
>auto eth0
>iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
>
Not remembering the context, I've gone back to look at the archives for
pertinent info:
>
> If I use either a static or dhcp iface stanza in
> /etc/network/interfaces it fails.
>
> Here is the output from the dhcp version.
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
> Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
>
> Please contribute if you find this software useful.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
>
> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
> Listening on LPF/eth0/00:50:da:cf:a5:06
> Sending on LPF/eth0/00:50:da:cf:a5:06
> Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
> DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPACK from 192.168.0.20
> SIOCSIFADDR: File exists
> bound to 192.168.0.21 -- renewal in 10800 seconds.
> RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address
>On Tuesday 14 June 2005 15:14, Meni Shapiro wrote:
>> Try:
>> #mii-tool
>
>Says
> No MII transceiver present!.
>
>the 3C59x module is loaded (my 3com NIC). Since even after the strange
>problems of getting the wrong IP address I can still do things like browse
>the web, then I assume it is basically working
>
>
Whoa! So your network is working?
What's the output of "ifconfig"?
What's the output of "lspci -v"?
What's the output of "/etc/init.d/networking restart"?
--
Kent West
Technology Support
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