IP addresses for all interfaces are static IPs from DNS. [root@rhelsandbox ~]# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:9A:00:87 inet addr:10.1.184.143 Bcast:10.1.187.255 Mask:255.255.252.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fe9a:87/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:950062 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:125352 errors:0 dropped:600 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:68056704 (64.9 MiB) TX bytes:3314706927 (3.0 GiB) eth0:1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:9A:00:87 inet addr:10.1.184.144 Bcast:10.1.187.255 Mask:255.255.252.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:9A:00:88 inet addr:10.255.2.20 Bcast:10.255.3.255 Mask:255.255.252.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fe9a:88/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:159 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:396 errors:0 dropped:600 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:13317 (13.0 KiB) TX bytes:63766 (62.2 KiB) eth1:1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:9A:00:88 inet addr:169.254.203.77 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:132064 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:132064 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:100127864 (95.4 MiB) TX bytes:100127864 (95.4 MiB) Thanks, Lu ________________________________ From: Philip Jones <phil@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "lu.jiang69@xxxxxxxxx" <lu.jiang69@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx" <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>; list <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:22 AM Subject: Re: Install RAC failed at running root.sh step Have you accidentally set one of the interfaces to get its address via DHCP? Thanks, Phil On 24 Jan 2013, at 10:01, Lu Jiang <lu.jiang69@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks Nial. > > I Had tried this note with the solution 3, did not fix the problem. > > The following is the contents of ons.log file. In this log file, I don't know > where 10.1.182.167 came from. This IP address is not in the hosts file and > not in the SCAN IP list in DNS either. > [root@rhelsandbox logs]# cat ons.log.rhelsandbox > [2013-01-23T17:02:30-05:00] [ons] [NOTIFICATION:1] [104] [ons-internal] ONS > server initiated > [2013-01-23T17:02:30-05:00] [ons] [ERROR:1] [17] [ons-listener] > 10.1.182.167,6100: BIND (Cannot assign requested address) > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l