From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 16 7:29:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E1D37B405 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 07:29:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 15M9NW-000I5g-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:29:42 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6GETge48517 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:29:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:29:41 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ifconfig question Message-ID: <20010716152941.A48484@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i 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 Sorry for the simple question, but I'm new to ethernets... root:~# dhclient ed0 ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address dhclient: New IP Address(ed0): 10.100.20.163 dhclient: New Subnet Mask (ed0): 255.255.254.0 dhclient: New Broadcast Address(ed0): 10.100.21.255 dhclient: New Routers: 10.100.20.1 I read the manpage on netintro and dhclient, but I couldn't figure it out. Is the ifconfig message an error? My connection seems to be working fine. jcm -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jonathon McKitrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message