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

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 24/06/2008, at 9:52 AM, jonathan michaels wrote:

> 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

Well I'm glad you got it working!

It seems strange that you would need to specify the lo0, since it's in  
defaults as that..

I suppose if the network_interfaces="auto" isn't functioning properly  
on that machine it could explain why the default wasn't working..  
Perhaps all the issues are the result of this? You could try just  
having networking_interfaces="fxp0 lo0" and I'm pretty sure the  
defaults would then set lo0 correctly, however you probably don't want  
to mess with it right now..

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

This creates IPv4 aliases on that interface.. I'm guessing this is to  
replace the generic alias, to make you specify if it's ipv4 or 6,  
since in the future you will have interfaces that do not have an IPv4  
address at all..

Though I can't see myself using ipv6 for anything.. I'm not  
particularly interested in having a whole stack of globally routable  
IPs..