From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 19 17: 7:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17E251568D for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 17:07:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12694; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 17:05:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 17:05:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Malartre Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address In-Reply-To: <3713F8E6.7BDBE394@videotron.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Malartre wrote: > I'm mailing from a windows-95 box, and I'm not on the list so cc me. > In previous mail, I said that I was unable to ping myself. > I'm using isc-dhcp beta 2.18 on the FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE box with > Motorola CyberSURFR cable-modem from Videotron. I'm not the only one > that was not able to ping itself under FreeBSD from that cable provider. > Here is the message I found today when examining my boot process, see > the ---> arrow for interesting parts. The DHCP errors are normal, I get them on my box. Check your interrupt settings for your Ethernet card. > httpd: cannot determine local host name. > Use the ServerName directive to set it manually. Do what it says -- you need to set up Apache. Edit /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message