[BUGS] finally fixed/resolved Regarding: sendmail: stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address]

[jonathan michaels]

greetings

harry sue matti jerahmy andrew andy peter sam edwin greg greg
greg (i thnks that all teh gregs i know) and a couple who i
really should include but cannot recall your name

sorry, if i left yorname off teh honour roll (grin), in essance
ita ll you guys on teh list that helped in one way or another
to get trhought this (insert not nessacerily obscene expletive,
ok) almost year long nightmare called move up to freebsd v6.2

istarted o utknow only that it existed andnow i can sort of
diagnose a mildy errent v6.2 box (with a lot of help) i am
reasonably confident  that i can go forward from here, thanls
guys, thankls heaps, very very much appreciations fro putting
up with me .. i know that i am not theeasies person to get on
with letalone communicate with on an onging basis . i'm hoping
that as we got to know each other and perhaps build some
bridges and as i get ot learn to trust you'all out teher, it is
a long preocess, a long and winding road .... 

in teh end game it turned out to be a poorly written
'etc/rc.conf' file and a posible freebsd oddity .. i am not
sure about that one but now my system is working as all teh
rest (other 4 in my local network) so i'm not arguing .. again
thanks for all teh help guys, very much appreciated.

the two main things were, missing a lot of " marks around most
of teh lines to do with the local networking entries and a few
entries that were just plain misssing. i guess, mainly, because of
assumtions that teh default entries in the /etc/default/rc.conf
file would take care of teh system as a whole ?? in my hosts
case they did not and i need to explicityly have them stated in
teh /etc/rc.conf file before my system would pick tehm up and
connect this machine to teh local network and then to forward
packets onto teh far greater outside world.

explicitly, all teh freebsd v6.2-release machines in my local
network need, these lines added (be included in there
/etc/re.conf file before local netoworking will function and
sendmail will work properly with freebsd v6.2-release

my host has a intel pci 10/100 mhz nic

ifconfig_fxp0="inet ip.ad.ress.6 netmask 255.255.255.240"
ifconfig_lo0=" inet 127.0.0.1"

both of these entries need to be included before neworking will
function properly

#ipv4_addrs_fxp0="ip.add.re.ss/24"

this ipv4_addrs.. entry i do not understand ?? what its purpose
or function is .. after 4 hours of typing starting at scree and
constant rebooting i was not game to try it incase it broke
somthing that i didn't not understand.

now this following entry

#network_interfaces="auto"

in my system/configuration this line, jut plain dosen't work
and i need to use this entry (with relevent changes for teh
other machines nic's)
               
network_interfaces="fxp0 lo0"

before networking will function properly (locally) or even have
stable intranetwork connectivity.

much kind apreciations and thanks to all who helped over teh
last year or so that i have been struggling with this
nightmare...

again very much thanks/appreciations

jonathan

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