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Re: netconfig not working


From: Mark . Burgess
Subject: Re: netconfig not working
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 14:39:26 +0200 (MET DST)

This mail doesn't make much sense to me,I'm afraid. It is
hard to see what is going on here.

As regards ifconf in general, I think a radically different
approach will be needed in future. THese ioctl calls are
unreliable and non-standard, and they don't support ipv6.

Mark


On 21 Feb, Alain van Hoof wrote:
> Ok, here are all the lines:
> 
> (using cfagent -d -v)
> 
> Assumed interface name: eth0 255.255.254.0 one
> Checking interface status...
> Address given by nameserver: 192.168.1.2
> Found netmask: 255.255.0.0
> cfengine:flat: The netmask is incorrectly configured, resetting...
> Found broadcast address: 172.16.255.255
> cfengine:flat: Broadcast address was 172.16.255.255 not 192.168.1.255
> (should be bit-type one)Resetting interface...
> cfengine:flat: Permission to reconfigure netmask denied.
> cfengine:flat: ioctl: Invalid argument
> Trying to set broad to 192.168.1.255 = 192.168.1.255
> cfengine:flat: Permission to reconfigure broadcast denied.
> cfengine:flat: ioctl: Invalid argument
> Checking interface status...
> Address given by nameserver: 192.168.1.2
> Found netmask: 255.255.0.0
> cfengine:flat: The netmask is incorrectly configured, resetting...
> Found broadcast address: 172.16.255.255
> cfengine:flat: Broadcast address was 172.16.255.255 not 192.168.1.255
> (should be bit-type one)Looking at default route...
> Job start time set to Thu Feb 21 10:35:03 2002
> 
> Alain.



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