On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 11:08 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote: > > I've got an FC6 box that I'm having some trouble getting the network > > configured correctly. I keep getting the error below when eth0 is > > started. This happens on reboot or if I attempt to restart the > > network. > > Networking works but I keep getting the error message. Any ideas > > where I've gone wrong? > > > > [root@knute knute]# /sbin/service network restart > > Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ] > > Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ] > > SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device > > Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ] > > Bringing up interface eth0: sysfs class device: Permission denied > > Error, some other host already uses address 192.168.3.5. > > [FAILED] > > Taking the error notice at face value, you've got some other device on > the same network already using that address. You can't do that, and it > checks when attempting to bring an interface on-line. Change one of > them. > Maybe something on the network grabbed the address via dhcp? Anne
