diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b7a3ebbd..6840a712 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # ChangeLog for Gentoo System Intialization ("rc") scripts
 # Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPLv2
 
+  08 May 2007; Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>:
+
+    When we don't have an address return 1, #176577.
+
   05 May 2007; Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>:
 
     Fix KV_to_int working with funky kernel versions, #177197.
diff --git a/net.BSD/ifconfig.sh b/net.BSD/ifconfig.sh
index 2e88bc20..bfc10055 100644
--- a/net.BSD/ifconfig.sh
+++ b/net.BSD/ifconfig.sh
@@ -51,9 +51,10 @@ _is_wireless() {
 _get_inet_address() {
 	set -- $(LC_ALL=C ifconfig "${IFACE}" |
 	sed -n -e 's/^[[:space:]]*inet \([^ ]*\) netmask 0x\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\).*/\1 0x\2.0x\3.0x\4/p')
+	[ -z "$1" ] && return 1
+
 	echo -n "$1"
 	shift
-
 	echo "/$(_netmask2cidr "$1")"
 }
 
diff --git a/net.Linux/ifconfig.sh b/net.Linux/ifconfig.sh
index 68590bbe..0bd5da29 100644
--- a/net.Linux/ifconfig.sh
+++ b/net.Linux/ifconfig.sh
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ _set_mac_address() {
 _get_inet_address() {
 	set -- $(LC_ALL=C ifconfig "${IFACE}" |
 	sed -n -e 's/.*inet addr:\([^ ]*\).*Mask:\([^ ]*\).*/\1 \2/p')
+	[ -z "$1" ] && return 1
+
 	echo -n "$1"
 	shift
 	echo "/$(_netmask2cidr "$1")"