From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 3 5: 5:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gdmckee.local (gdm.demon.co.uk [193.237.88.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC6E637B401 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 05:04:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (helo=p300) by gdmckee.local with smtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14P2My-0000Az-00; Sat, 03 Feb 2001 13:04:48 +0000 Message-ID: <00e701c08de1$da46b980$0500a8c0@gdmckee.local> From: "G D McKee" To: "freebsd-questions" Cc: Subject: Telewest Cable and FreeBSD Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 13:04:11 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Got my NIC set-up for DHCP in /etc/rc.conf. When the machine fires up I get the following error when trying to obtain a DHCP lease. kursk# dhclient ep0 ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address I have no firewall or anything in place. /etc/hosts has ALL:ALL:ALLOW in it at the top. Gordon PS Robert - I was put in contact with you from Richard Tobin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message