SUMMARY (sort of): Cannot assign requested address

Hello Managers -

I never did determine the cause or solution for the original problem,
so I ended up removing the second NIC and then doing the jumpstart.
That worked fine.  After the box was built, I reinstalled the NIC and
configured hme1 by hand.  That wouldn't be pretty if I had a bunch of 
boxes to jumpstart, but I only had to do four  :) 


Thanks to the following for suggestions...

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John C. Julian wrote...
by default sun hardware uses the system mac for network mac. With two
network cards you need to use the mac on each card.

At the eeprom "ok" prompt type:
setenv local-mac-address? true

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Jason Kruse wrote... 
Switch the cables on the NICs. hme0 is on a different subnet than hme1 and
the boot server is on the subnet with hme1. That's my guess anyway.

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Nathan Dietsch wrote...
What IP address are you using. Stupid question, but is it a proper address ?
ie no number > 255 in it ?

Are you sure that you are assigning it to the correct interface? My
knowledge of jumpstart is a little low, but I have seen this message come up
when people have given hostname.hmu0 instead of hostname.hme0 

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Original request...

> Hello Managers --
> 
> I have an E4500 that I'm trying to jumpstart (with Solaris 8).  It has
> an additional NIC installed (giving me hme0 and hme1). As the box is
> starting, I get the following...
> 
> 		Configuring /dev and /devices
> 		Using RPC Bootparams for network configuration information.
> 		Configured interface hme0
> 		ifconfig: setifflags: SIOCSLIFFLAGS: hme0: Cannot assign
> 			requested address
> 		Configured interface hme1
> 		Using sysid configuration file
>
208.160.58.102:/jumpstart/Sysidcfg/Solaris_8.0/sysidcfg
> 		The system is coming up.  Please wait.
> 
> 		The following error occurred while trying to set the 'up'
> 			flag on the hme0
> 		network interface: ioctl: Cannot assign requested address.
> 
> This is the first 4500 that I'm working with, but the jumpstart has worked
> fine on a dozen 450s, 250s, and smaller boxes (so unless there's some
> 4500-specific jumpstart setting, I think jumpstart itself is OK).   
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks in advance... will summarize.


Andy