Dale Scheetz wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: > > > > > I have restalled debian 1.3. When I boot it, I found the following > > > > errors after the PPP copyright mesg. > > > > SIOCIFADDR no such device > > > > SIOCIFNETMASK no such device > > > > SIOCIFBRDADDR no such device > > > > > > I see these too. I don't think it's anything to worry about. It has to do > > > with lack of a network device. Like myself your machine probably has no > > > ethernet card and relies on ppp for its net connection. As ppp is not > > > active during this portion of the boot, these errors result from the > > > this attempt. > > > > Should I configure the ip address, netmask and broadcast address if I am > > only using dialup PPP? > > > Well, that will not help, and may cause difficulties for the pppd daemon. > Those items should be configured in the options file for pppd, but only if > they are not determined by your ISP. > > In any case this will not quiet these error messages, but you should not > be concerned about them either.
Eventually I quiet those three messages by commenting out the IF/Netmask/Broadcast setting in the /etc/init.d/network. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
