Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-20 Thread Marty
Alan Chandler wrote: inet addr:169.254.50.3 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0 For 169.254.50.3 whois returns "ERROR: IP Range Reserved by IANA.org" The table at http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space lists the purpose of this address range as "Various Registries." I don'

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 20 June 2005 14:28, Andrew Schulman wrote: > What does ifup -avn say? [EMAIL PROTECTED] alan # ifup -avn ifup: interface lo already configured ifup: interface eth0 already configured [EMAIL PROTECTED] alan # /etc/init.d/networking stop Deconfiguring network interfaces...done. [EMAIL

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Thursday 16 June 2005 07:48, Alan Chandler wrote: >> On Wednesday 15 June 2005 22:12, Kent West wrote: >> ... >> >>> I can't understand why your /etc/network/interfaces file is being >>> ignored. It makes no sense to me. Maybe the permissions on the file? >> >> It is not being ignored - the i

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-18 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 16 June 2005 07:48, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Wednesday 15 June 2005 22:12, Kent West wrote: > ... > > > I can't understand why your /etc/network/interfaces file is being > > ignored. It makes no sense to me. Maybe the permissions on the file? > > It is not being ignored - the ifupdown

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-15 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 22:12, Kent West wrote: ... > > I can't understand why your /etc/network/interfaces file is being > ignored. It makes no sense to me. Maybe the permissions on the file? It is not being ignored - the ifupdown script is using it, but getting the error message back from the

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-15 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 18:46, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address > > Google turns up a few instances of this error message, as well as the > earlier "SIOCSIFADDR: File exists". Many of them seem to be associated > with vserver, whatever that is. It se

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-15 Thread Kent West
Alan Chandler wrote: >On Wednesday 15 June 2005 18:59, Kent West wrote: >uring network interfaces...ifup: interface lo already configured > > >>This disturbs me. If you've just taken networking down, why is lo >>already configured? >> >>Try "/etc/init.d/networking stop" >>then "ifconfig" >>and r

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-15 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 18:59, Kent West wrote: uring network interfaces...ifup: interface lo already configured > > This disturbs me. If you've just taken networking down, why is lo > already configured? > > Try "/etc/init.d/networking stop" > then "ifconfig" > and report the results. [EMAIL PR

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
> RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address Google turns up a few instances of this error message, as well as the earlier "SIOCSIFADDR: File exists". Many of them seem to be associated with vserver, whatever that is. It seems that running vservers have to be shut down before the interfa

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-15 Thread Kent West
Alan Chandler wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] alan # /etc/init.d/networking start >Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. >Configuring network interfaces...ifup: interface lo already configured > > This disturbs me. If you've just taken networking down, why is lo already configured? Try "/etc/

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-15 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 17:52, Kent West wrote: > 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.

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-15 Thread Kent West
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

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-15 Thread Alan Chandler
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 add

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-15 Thread Kent West
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 >

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
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? Nothing dramatic # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-14 Thread Kent West
Alan Chandler wrote: >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

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 15:14, Meni Shapiro wrote: > Hi, > Well first of all i would check if the eth0 is connected and is known to > the OS. ifconfig says it is there - but with ip address 169.254.50.3 > Try: > #mii-tool Says No MII transceiver present!. the 3C59x module is loaded (my 3com N

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-14 Thread Meni Shapiro
Hi, Well first of all i would check if the eth0 is connected and is known to the OS. Try: #mii-tool see if it says link ok. if not try: lsmod and see if the driver for the nic is listed (if not...feagure out which one you got and try modprobe to install it (check the man for info)). if you got lin