From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 8 02:42:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA13818 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:42:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA13800 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:42:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA17883; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:40:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:40:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Hiren Mehta cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with network In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Hiren Mehta wrote: > ifconfig: ioctl(SIOCAIFADDR) destination address required. > > What can be the problem ? How to fix this problem ? The parallel port link, lp0, is a point-to-point link; it requires the Ip address of both ends. If you aren't using lp0, then remove it from the network_interfaces line in /etc/rc.conf. > network_interfaces="lp0 lo0" # List of network interfaces (lo0 is loopback). > ifconfig_lp0="inet 192.9.205.90 netmask 255.255.255.0" Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message