From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 19 3:52:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06FC437B503 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 03:52:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from [64.110.74.50] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14Uopj-000DS0-00; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:50:24 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14Uosc-00087K-00; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:53:22 +0300 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:53:22 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: Rakhesh Sasidharan Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: ifconfig error Message-ID: <20010219145322.C29699@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , Rakhesh Sasidharan , FBSD-Q References: <20010219134211.A29699@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nmemrqcdn5VTmUEE" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "Rakhesh Sasidharan" on Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 04:22:33PM +0530 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --nmemrqcdn5VTmUEE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Rakhesh Sasidharan [20010219 13:51]: writing = on the subject 'Re: ifconfig error' Rakhesh> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Rakhesh>=20 Rakhesh> > Rakhesh> My mistake. I tried ifconfig with "netmask" and it sti= ll gives the same Rakhesh> > Rakhesh> error: "in6_ifattach_addaddr: rtrequest failed. errno = =3D 17" Rakhesh> >=20 Rakhesh> > I did not look so keenly. Are you trying to configure the loopba= ck Rakhesh> > interface with an IP ather than 127.0.0.1 or you do not known wh= at name=20 Rakhesh> > is given to your network card?? What is your network card detect= ed as? Rakhesh> >=20 Rakhesh> > You cannot reconfigure lo0 (loopback interface) Rakhesh>=20 Rakhesh> I don't have a network card. I am trying to configure my loopback Rakhesh> interface lo2 with an IP 10.20.3.12 (or whatever I mentioned in th= at Rakhesh> mail). I have tried a similar thing under OpenBSD atleast, and I = have had Rakhesh> no errors. And moreover, in this case, even though it gives that Rakhesh> error/warning, the interface does get configured with that IP. Why are you assigining an Ip on lo0?? I've never done it and I am not sure how it helps. Rakhesh>=20 Rakhesh> BTW, I do not exactly understand what you mean by saying I can Rakhesh> reconfigure lo0? ^^^ I said CANNOT =20 Rakhesh> Do u mean I can't assign an IP to it, or something else ? That is what i think but I stand corrected. I am returning you to the mailing list for advance users to chip in. I haven't used anything other than FreeBSD, so forgive me. I'll soon start looking at OpenBSD if I get the time. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. Deeds cannot dream what dreams can do. -E.E Cummings=20 --nmemrqcdn5VTmUEE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6kQkyA2k+MNyI/bERAvlBAKCa14RcuOVvAtEaR13OydQjPsyOzQCbBnDF gAlnk/Uzk+4ZYUkXWQt8m6k= =sMNm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nmemrqcdn5VTmUEE-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message