SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address.......

Chris Kloiber ckloiber at ckloiber.com
Tue May 18 22:23:56 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 05:22, chun lee wrote:
> Hi there:
> 
> I am trying to activate a dhcp connection and I got this message:
> 
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address
> 
> Does this mean? Also, I have tried to access the setting of my modem through
> mozilla and the access was refused. Can anyone help?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Yours
> 
> CHUN

Make sure your dynamically assigned range is not overlapping with any
Static IP's on your network. The address the DHCP server is trying to
give out may already be inn use. 

-- 
Chris Kloiber






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