this has to be a bug...
Ben Scott
dragonhawk at gmail.com
Sat Mar 25 14:52:01 EST 2006
On 3/25/06, Dave Johnson <dave-gnhlug at davej.org> wrote:
> Ya, a bug in net-tools, but you are using an invalid syntax. Buggy
> software and sudo definately dont mix :(
If your system supports it, you may want to look at iproute2 (the
ip(8) command). The syntax is a lot more flexible, and a lot more
sane, than ifconfig(8). And, apparently, it handles this error
better:
# ip addr show dev eth0
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
link/ether 00:10:5a:20:55:f1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.10.10.10/24 brd 10.10.10.255 scope global eth0
inet6 fe80::210:5aff:fe20:55f1/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
# ip addr del 192.168.10.1 dev eth0
RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address
#
-- Ben
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