From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 30 10:55:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from miraculix.wu-wien.ac.at (miraculix.wu-wien.ac.at [137.208.3.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A64637B405 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:55:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from h9400395@miraculix.wu-wien.ac.at) Received: from localhost (h9400395@localhost) by miraculix.wu-wien.ac.at (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA460676 for ; emf h9400395@miraculix.wu-wien.ac.at; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:54:08 +0200 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:54:08 +0200 (MES) From: Nikolaus Hiebaum Reply-To: Nikolaus Hiebaum To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DHCP problems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi - I am using FreeBSD 4.3 on a IBM Laptop 350C with a Ethernet PCMCIA card from 3COM (3c589D). Upon booting the device is recogized. Following output: ep0: <3com Ethernet III 3C589> at port 0x240_0x24f irq3 slot 0 on pccard 0 ep0: Ethernet address 00:60:08:8A:45:73 Now I want to use a DHCP server to get an IP address. I type dhclient ep0 and first I got an error message somthing about rtinit. After a while (between 1 and two minutes) I did get an IP address. Our Sysadmin checked serverside and said that the computer requests an IP, gets one, accepts it, and requests it again. One time it worked almost instantly without any error message, and from now I on I get a new error message: ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address And I don't get an IP address anymore. Anybody have an idea? CU L8er, Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message