Re: cannot set IP for ethernet

Patrick McHardy
2007-06-12T15:18:52Z

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jun 12 2007 16:13, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>
>>>On Jun 12 2007 14:41, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>>>
>>>>with 2.6.22-rc4-git2 I am getting errors when setting IP for ethernet
>>>>interfaces:
>>>>
>>>>ioctl(4, SIOCSIFADDR, 0x7fff94931600) = -1 ENOBUFS (No buffer space available)
>
>
> Do you run VPN or some sort?

As far as I can see only inet_device allocation failure can lead
to this error. Please try the patch I sent in case it is reproducable
after reboot.