Hi All,

I have a problem trying to set up my eth0 with ifconfig command as follows:

ifconfig -a eth0 add xxx.xxx.xx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0

Coming back with error message "SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address"

If I try to set it up with command:

ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/24

I get a new error message.

"192.168.12.112/24 Host Name Lookup Failure"

Ideas?

J
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