From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 13 20: 4:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sims-ha.videotron.net (faure.videotron.net [205.151.222.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CC0E14E58 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 20:04:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@videotron.ca) Received: from videotron.ca ([206.231.114.149]) by sims-ha.videotron.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1998.03.08.20.27) with ESMTP id <0FA5007JEQ3I9C@sims-ha.videotron.net> for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 22:11:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 22:09:43 -0400 From: Malartre Subject: ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <3713F8E6.7BDBE394@videotron.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; I) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm mailing from a windows-95 box, and I'm not on the list so cc me. In previous mail, I said that I was unable to ping myself. I'm using isc-dhcp beta 2.18 on the FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE box with Motorola CyberSURFR cable-modem from Videotron. I'm not the only one that was not able to ping itself under FreeBSD from that cable provider. Here is the message I found today when examining my boot process, see the ---> arrow for interesting parts. --------- Doing initial network setup: hostname. Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V2.0b1pl18 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 Listening on BPF/ed0/00:e0:29:13:56:8c Sending on BPF/ed0/00:e0:29:13:56:8c Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net --->ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address DHCPDISCOVER on ed0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18 DHCPOFFER from 206.231.114.1 DHCPREQUEST on ed0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 206.231.114.1 New Network Number: 206.231.114.0 New Broadcast Address: 206.231.114.255 --->ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address bound to 206.231.114.149 -- renewal in 5400 seconds. ed0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 206.231.114.149 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 206.231.114.255 ether 00:e0:29:13:56:8c lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 Flushed all rules. 00100 allow ip from any to any via lo0 00200 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 65000 allow ip from any to any Firewall rules loaded. route: writing to routing socket: File exists add net default: gateway 199.84.251.1: File exists Additional routing options: tcp extensions=NO. routing daemons:. Mounting NFS file systems. additional daemons: syslogd. Doing additional network setup: portmap. Starting final network daemons:. setting ELF ldconfig path: /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/li b setting a.out ldconfig path: /usr/lib/aout /usr/lib/compat/aout /usr/X11R6/lib/a out starting standard daemons: inetd cron sendmail. Initial rc.i386 initialization:. rc.i386 configuring syscons: keymap blank_time screensaver moused. --->Local package initialization:httpd: cannot determine local host name. Use the ServerName directive to set it manually. rc5des. --------- Anyone has an idea of why it cant assign the name? Thank You -- [Malartre] [malartre@videotron.ca] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message