On 30-May-99 George Bonser wrote:
> On Sun, 30 May 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
>
>> So far I have had a couple of people help and this is what we have come up
>> with.
>>
>> To change the IP address of a system the following files need to be
>> modified.
>>
>> ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
>>
>> executes without any errors.
>>
>> route add -net ${NETWORK}
>>
>> executes and gives the error SIOCADDR: invalid argument
>
> Yeah, if you are using a 2.2.x kernel, comment this line out, the network
> route is auto-added when you ifconfig the interface.
I was having this problem just last night and could not figure out where this
SIOCADDR error was coming from.
--
Andrew
