Rtnetlink Answers: File Exists

1. Rtnetlink Answers File Exists Failed To Bring Up Eth1

Hi,I have three NIC at my Ubuntu machine. Hello,I have been wrestling with this all day where I could eth1 working BUTifup & ifdpwn failedI got the same RTNETLINK File exists errorandrebooting would break with no networks at all.Ubuntu Docs were helpful. Here are the steps I took.

I hope they are useful to someone else.I am sure I could have avoided all this work if I had added the second interface when I added the Ubuntu OS to my new machine.% uname -r 3.0.0-17-server1)My starting /etc/network/interfaces file follows:# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).# The loopback network interfaceauto loiface lo inet loopback# The primary network interfaceauto eth0iface eth0 inet staticaddress 134.174.14.142netmask 255.255.255.0network 134.174.14.0broadcast 134.174.14.255gateway 134.174.14.5# dns-. options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installeddns-nameservers?dns-search med.harvard.edu3) new interfaces file# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).# The loopback network interfaceauto loiface lo inet loopback# The primary network interfaceauto eth0iface eth0 inet staticaddress 134.174.14.142netmask 255.255.255.0network 134.174.14.0broadcast 134.174.14.255gateway 134.174.14.5auto eth1iface eth1 inet staticaddress 10.10.10.15netmask 255.255.248.0network 10.10.8.0broadcast 10.10.15.255# dns-. options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installeddns-nameservers?dns-search med.harvard.edu4)It seems like it was critical to have the eth1 config directly followthe eth0 config. I left the dns lines in place because they were already at the end of the file after the initial ubuntu installation. They must be good for something.Also note that the '?'

Rtnetlink Answers File Exists Failed To Bring Up Eth1

In 'dns-nameservers?' Lookslike ^Good luck.

It was a tough slog for me.By the way, this is my first post to ubuntuforums ever. Quite a thrill to think I might help someone else.-slugg007.

All of a sudden i noticed that my ERL can't remove old IP's from for example eth2. I can add new ones and remove them but not remove older. When I try to do so I just get the message 'RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address'.I'm running EdgeOS v1.0.2. I have tried to use open VPN earlier this summer but that interface has been removed to remove possible causes of the problem, but no.

1. RTNETLINK answers: File exists while doing ifup. Amit Shil Mar 29, 2013 2:38 PM Hi Guys, New to the forum, have got an issue while setting up static routing. I have got a VM on OEL5u6, normal setup without any.
2. Root@rtr1:# ip link del bond0.214. That seems to have fixed it. Not sure what ubnt has to say about this method, but #worksforme.