From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 1 13:53:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA6E1065670 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2009 13:53:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from claudiu.vasadi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f223.google.com (mail-ew0-f223.google.com [209.85.219.223]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A124C8FC13 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2009 13:53:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy23 with SMTP id 23so5380858ewy.8 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:53:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=YYpvKh27Ow9WprMM3IRQ+qpPtYYV59Pv+gkuGMqrTWY=; b=n2jAmpwOU/ebDLopsWgiEKJBhmWL5mWi9DCaWsk9ifQ1h9OL5SU1xXsYeN9LNFQnmb AcmRxNkJEAMbk8GBqbwpyqikprVcY7yfxzU6fFyPHNmZ/9z04nJPKKRjr3lPdEO/8HAe mFdC8Gtw27S5o1IezGsfTODQZoSwV4dPSwpSM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=MyQygCVf3D3WoRDr1JwUmVj+h0siZBJGRlGVDR/7E2VavvGyKrXVkc8Rz3MYTIfSO9 JLikNp0tK72xWB54R4R5I+7fARiMqe9VMi1mZHzDP79HBznkGmFkGpMhi+wiUM2sS+bI /I+U+mDtNQKe1YVTj7eJktCPcX0cWSmz3nCDM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.2.19 with SMTP id 19mr7094328ebb.94.1251811211593; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:20:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 15:20:11 +0200 Message-ID: <4f760c6a0909010620u691e4e0et9e5d624443cc2a8f@mail.gmail.com> From: claudiu vasadi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: ifconfig -alias - removed wrong ip ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:53:06 -0000 Hello guys, I have a 7.2-stable Freebsd running on a 2.66 Ghz 478 socket mobo with 1 GB DDR1 ram. I added another ip on my rl0 interface, brought it up, everything was fine (until i screwed it up :( ). I wanted then to remove the alias IP but i wrote a wrong command (ifconfig rl0 -alias) and since then I have no access to the box. I then turned to my vmware FreeBSD to reproduce the situation and I was stuned to find out that that command I wrote, removes the "normal" IP and not the alias one. OK, normaly (I think) i should be able to connect to the alias IP..... well, It's not the case 2 things here: 1.) Is it normal for the ifconfig rl0 -alias to remove the "normal" IP and not the alias one ? (I think that by this syntax it could be right but the parameter "-alias" is specified and the OS should know to remove the alias IP and not the normal IP) 2) I dnt really understand why am I not able to connect to the second (alias) ip? It seems that somehow it's dependant to the "normal" one I must say I was not really reading the handbook for the 2nd point here.... will do it now though PS: box is 3 countryes away from me so manual intervention is out of the question (although I have some sort of online-suport (If my 73 years old grandmother can be called that :)) ) )