Alan Chandler wrote: >On Wednesday 15 June 2005 16:31, Kent West wrote: > > >>Whoa! So your network is working? >> >> >Yes but with the wrong ip address > > >>What's the output of "ifconfig"? >> >> >eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:CF:A5:06 > inet addr:169.254.50.3 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::250:daff:fecf:a506/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:89616 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:58120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:108856836 (103.8 MiB) TX bytes:4467081 (4.2 MiB) > Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd400 > > > >>What's the output of "lspci -v"? >> >> >0000:00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3cSOHO100-TX Hurricane (rev >30) > > >>What's the output of "/etc/init.d/networking restart"? >> >> >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 >done. > >Note the ifconfig output above is relevent also to after this last command - >where you can see the dhcpd server is trying to give me 192.168.0.21 (which >is what I want it to be). > > I found this at: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9611.1/0330.html
> sit stands for "simple internet transition" and is bassically a device > capable of encapsulating ipv6 in ipv4 datagrams. So apparently the sit0 is a "device" for IPv6, which you're probably not using. Perhaps removing any ipv6-related modules might help eradicate this error message. But that might not affect the real issue. I think the next thing I'd try is: /etc/init.d/networking stop followed by editing the interfaces file to a static IP so it looks like: # The loopback network interface >auto lo >iface lo inet loopback > ># The primary network interface >auto eth0 >iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.0.21 > netmask 255.255.0.0 (or 255.255.255.0, or whatever it's supposed to be on > your network) and then /etc/init.d/networking start and report the output. -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
